Posted on 07/11/2008 2:53:35 PM PDT by forkinsocket
"Rewish," or "al Rawshana," is a colloquial Arab term that means "hip" and also "distracted or confused," according to Allegra Stratton's "Muhajababes," a lively (and rewish) exploration of youth culture in several Middle Eastern nations. One of the many people Stratton interviewed for her book -- a bike-glove-wearing female member of a dance troupe that inexplicably describes itself as "an R&B band" -- told Stratton that the region's booming under-25 demographic is being made ever more rewish by their exposure to two seemingly opposed forces: racy pop music videos full of gyrating, pulchritudinous singers like Haifa Wehbe and what Stratton calls the "piety trend," which has more and more young Muslims heeding the call of TV mullahs to abandon smoking, drinking, displays of flesh and premarital sex.
The result is a new breed of mermaid-like creatures, spotted by Stratton all over the streets of Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Dubai and Damascus. These are "muhajababes," from "muhajabe," a term for the veil. Zina, a girl Stratton met in a Cairo cafe, is a classic example. Her hair was covered with "a flower-patterned headscarf" but she was also wearing heavy makeup and jeans so tight she couldn't fasten the top button. When Stratton asked Zina why she also smoked (widely considered "haram," or forbidden, to observant Muslims), Zina grew "frosty." Then she explained: "If I smoke and wear the headscarf you know that I'm not one of them [that is, the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest Islamist group]. You know that I'm Islamic. That I am devout. But I'm also different ... If you know what you're looking for then you'll see being a Muslim these days is a different thing."
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
A smoker, eh? Baaaad. Whe’s not welcome in the United Smokefree States of America!
We prefer non smokers, even if they are jihadis.
This is a piece of cake for anyone with multiple personality disorder.
FWIW, multiple personality disorder is usually triggered by being raised in a SEVERELY abusive environment.
One could make the case that this describes islam to a "T"...
Hmmm....
I'd buy behead that for a drachma!
LOL!!
Don’t be fooled. A friend who spent two years in Iraq as a translator says that certain Arabs and Iranians will live here for years, make huge incomes, have American friends and even mates, apparently assimilate. But they’ll turn into terrorists at the drop of a hat. The big hat that would bring them out of the woodwork is our bombing of Iran.
Thank you, Salon, for showing us that Muslims aren’t really fundamentalist, but that they are actually really col and just like us. Now, we don’t have to worry about anything, and in just a few years, MTV will make Muslims into regular people, and peace will descend on the Middle East. And we don’t have to do a thing!
The big hat that would bring them out of the woodwork is our bombing of Iran...well better get that bombing started before anymore are allowed into our country by our friggin’ Homeland Security and Commie State Dept!
Well, I think she looks like a terrorist. So beware.
Not a terrorist, but supporter of Hezbullah, yes. She’s Shi’i Lebanese, so of course she supports them.
Good idea. Just think how full of holes those departments would be with B-Hussein-O at the helm and Black nationalists as department heads--wouldn't take many to make the agencies totally ineffective. As of right now, I know that Homeland is doing its job, defusing situations we never hear of.
My American Arab friend who just returned from Iraq says that terrorists are marking time until B-Hussein is elected. For them, it would be a signal that terrorism is OK. The Hussein name is almost a code for destruction. They think we are total idiots.
I can't imaging why... < /richter scale irony>
Funny, she don’t look Ruish.
(*ducks and runs*)
Curses!
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