Television Helps Break Mystique of Holy Warrior (72 dark-eyed virgins need not apply)

The Financial Times ^ | March 24, 2005 | Steve Negus and Dhiya Rasan

[ColdWarNavyVet_dirsup]

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?!

[eureka!]

Ping. Gotta love the ME psychops as part of the war. As with their own forces, the Iraqis are giving al-Jazeera a run...

[SunkenCiv]

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.

Naw. An insult to their community would be to point out what a gang of woman-beating, mass-murdering, backstabbing, eye-gouging, torturers they are. Whoops.

[SunkenCiv]

and let's not forget this:

Virgins? What virgins?
by Ibn Warraq
Saturday January 12, 2002

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Islam's Love-Hate Relationship with Homosexuality
By Serge Trifkovic
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 24, 2003
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Printable.asp?ID=5704

[Dog]

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!

[eureka!]

Re#26 LOL. Great point. I hope that it makes the ME airwaves on talk radio and TV...

[dangus]

Now we understand where they come up with the name "Baath party."

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?