A real disturbing thought: Anyone else wonder if Hussein rose to power among the Baathists because he was hung like a bear? 
Next disturbing thought:
Is this why the French Cardinals love the Baath party so damn much?
Posted on 03/24/2005 9:14:40 PM PST by quidnunc
Say the word mujahid — or holy warrior — these days and many inhabitants of Baghdad are likely to snigger.
An appellation once worn as a badge of pride by anti-American insurgents has now become street slang for homosexuals, after men claiming to be captured Islamist guerrillas confessed that they were holding gay orgies in the popular Iraqi TV programme Terror in the Hands of Justice.
For Iraqis opposed to the predominantly Sunni Islamist insurgency, Terror in the Hands of Justice, which airs twice daily on Iraqi public television, has broken the mystique of a force that used to strike terror into the hearts of anyone working with the Americans or the new government.
But for many Sunni, even some who do not support the insurgents' goals, the programme's suggestion that the entire guerrilla movement comprises sexual libertines and petty criminals is an insult to their community.
The "terrorists" on television are almost certainly not actors but genuine detainees arrested by the security forces on suspicion of being part of the insurgency. Many Iraqis claim to have recognised on television the guerrillas who threatened them, while the families of some of the televised detainees have called up Iraqi politicians trying to convince them of their sons' innocence.
However, many Iraqis believe that the stern-faced officers of the "Wolf Brigade", the Iraqi security unit that arrested most of the alleged terrorists, may have pushed the suspects — some of whom appear on the programme sporting bruises — to embellish their "confessions".
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when i was translating arabic, one of the libyan colloquialisms that we learned for 'homosexual' was the phrase "he who pushes sand"
always thought it sad to just blame the poor guy on the bottom (no pun intended), when the one on top was the one in control, no?!
Ping. Gotta love the ME psychops as part of the war. As with their own forces, the Iraqis are giving al-Jazeera a run...
Virgins? What virgins?Luxenberg tries to show that many obscurities of the Koran disappear if we read certain words as being Syriac and not Arabic. We cannot go into the technical details of his methodology but it allows Luxenberg, to the probable horror of all Muslim males dreaming of sexual bliss in the Muslim hereafter, to conjure away the wide-eyed houris promised to the faithful in suras XLIV.54; LII.20, LV.72, and LVI.22. Luxenberg 's new analysis, leaning on the Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian, yields "white raisins" of "crystal clarity" rather than doe-eyed, and ever willing virgins - the houris. Luxenberg claims that the context makes it clear that it is food and drink that is being offerred, and not unsullied maidens or houris.
by Ibn Warraq
Saturday January 12, 2002
Islam's Love-Hate Relationship with Homosexuality
By Serge Trifkovic
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 24, 2003
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Printable.asp?ID=5704
Wait until the Iraqis are told the 10 MP's who repelled that ambush on the convoy and killed 27 terrorists...were killed by 3 American women...hehehehehe!
Re#26 LOL. Great point. I hope that it makes the ME airwaves on talk radio and TV...
A real disturbing thought: Anyone else wonder if Hussein rose to power among the Baathists because he was hung like a bear?
Next disturbing thought:
Is this why the French Cardinals love the Baath party so damn much?
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