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The Sexual Misery of the Arab World
nytimes.com ^ | KAMEL DAOUD

Posted on 02/13/2016 7:22:59 AM PST by RoosterRedux

AFTER Tahrir came Cologne. After the square came sex. The Arab revolutions of 2011 aroused enthusiasm at first, but passions have since waned. Those movements have come to look imperfect, even ugly: For one thing, they have failed to touch ideas, culture, religion or social norms, especially the norms relating to sex. Revolution doesn't mean modernity.

The attacks on Western women by Arab migrants in Cologne, Germany, on New Year's Eve evoked the harassment of women in Tahrir Square itself during the heady days of the Egyptian revolution. The reminder has led people in the West to realize that one of the great miseries plaguing much of the so-called Arab world, and the Muslim world more generally, is its sick relationship with women. In some places, women are veiled, stoned and killed; at a minimum, they are blamed for sowing disorder in the ideal society. In response, some European countries have taken to producing guides of good conduct to refugees and migrants.

Sex is a complex taboo, arising, in places like Algeria, Tunisia, Syria or Yemen, out of the ambient conservatism's patriarchal culture, the Islamists' new, rigorist codes and the discreet puritanism of the region's various socialisms. That makes a good combination for obstructing desire or guilt-tripping and marginalizing those who feel any...

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Today sex is a great paradox in many countries of the Arab world: One acts as though it doesn't exist, and yet it determines everything that's unspoken. Denied, it weighs on the mind by its very concealment. Although women are veiled, they are at the center of our connections, exchanges and concerns.

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1 posted on 02/13/2016 7:22:59 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: sauropod

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2 posted on 02/13/2016 7:25:05 AM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Ladies couldn’t even go to Starbucks for a time in Dubai. The driver had to go in to get the drink. All because some barricade had fallen down that separated the men from the women.


3 posted on 02/13/2016 7:25:32 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: RoosterRedux
Why Huma came to America, yes?


4 posted on 02/13/2016 7:27:21 AM PST by nascarnation (Hillary: the Democrat version of Jeb Bush)
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To: RoosterRedux

5 posted on 02/13/2016 7:29:07 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: nascarnation

No. Huma is elite Brotherhood. She is impervious to the madness of the sexual deviance of the muslin hoi palloi. She is the very epitome of deception, marrying a pervert and hooking up with a lesbian, all of the highest class. Huma, like Valerie, is a critical link to global muslim domination.


6 posted on 02/13/2016 7:36:03 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: Travis McGee

The cancer of Islam should have been cut off the face of the earth centuries ago, the landmarks in Saudi Arabia turned to rubble, and every Koran burned. It is not a religion. It is a mental disease.


7 posted on 02/13/2016 7:36:49 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: RoosterRedux

Male muslims worst nightmares, Amazonian terminators coming after them, they will never, ever stop. Cannot be stoned, not even an rpg can stop them.


8 posted on 02/13/2016 7:39:54 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (You don't have to like Trump, his enemies certainly don't.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam

John Quincy Adams on Islam

In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.

Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).


9 posted on 02/13/2016 7:40:48 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RoosterRedux

Many of the comments at the site equate islam with Christianity, or simply religion in general. I am seeing this more and more. The attitude of, “You can’t criticize moslems for xyz since so and so group did xyz hundreds of years ago.”


10 posted on 02/13/2016 7:51:28 AM PST by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither)
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To: txrefugee

Precisely. Islam IS a hate crime. Time for a new Crusade. Until Allah is worshipped only in hell.


11 posted on 02/13/2016 7:54:14 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: RoosterRedux

What Europe needs are more goats for relief, more catamites for pleasure, and then women will be mostly left alone.


12 posted on 02/13/2016 7:59:56 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: txrefugee

“Mecca delenda est!”

If the Ka’aba is vaporized, where is the muzzies’ god?


13 posted on 02/13/2016 8:58:56 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Louis Foxwell

You are correct.


14 posted on 02/13/2016 9:25:34 AM PST by Tax-chick ("We have no values in common with Saudi Arabia."~ Daniel Greenfield)
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To: Travis McGee

I’m just guessing - but are they able to buy Viagra in those countries?


15 posted on 02/13/2016 10:23:43 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: RoosterRedux
Paradise and its virgins are a pet topic of preachers, who present these otherworldly delights as rewards to those who dwell in the lands of sexual misery. Dreaming about such prospects, suicide bombers surrender to a terrifying, surrealistic logic: The path to orgasm runs through death, not love.

And when orgasm isn't running through death, it's running through rape, violence, and war. All cultures ARE NOT EQUAL.. This is one more prime example of how Islam is inferior.

16 posted on 02/13/2016 10:37:36 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary has 416 'superdelegates'... Bernie has 14... Wake up democrats - the election's rigged.)
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To: RoosterRedux

He left out the consequences of 1500 years of marrying cousins.


17 posted on 02/13/2016 11:18:52 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: RoosterRedux

Women are chattel in most Arab countries. Women are mutilated, beaten, covered with Burkas, stoned for getting raped, and ruthlessly oppressed. What could go wrong?


18 posted on 02/13/2016 12:08:20 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: dennisw; watchin; VOA; timestax; xJones; justshutupandtakeit; TopDog2; ThomasMore; Publius6961; ...
Islam-list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

19 posted on 02/14/2016 1:54:07 AM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: RoosterRedux
The extended quote from Churchill from The River War belongs here for the middle paragraph. Realize that Churchill was in his 20s and had Islam pegged:

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

20 posted on 02/14/2016 4:23:56 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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