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2006-01-19 Terror Networks
Rushdie sez West under-estimates the sexual fear of Islamists
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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-01-19 00:56|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 bomb em with porn?? The mark 1 xxx clusterfck munition showering the target with porno vids!
Posted by Shep UK 2006-01-19 05:29||   2006-01-19 05:29|| Front Page Top

#2 hold on hold on, shouldnt Rushdie be dead by now???? WTF they've been trying to get him for as long as my mind can remember. they cant even get an Author??? lol lol
Posted by Shep UK 2006-01-19 05:31||   2006-01-19 05:31|| Front Page Top

#3 No fear on his part. Padma Lakshmi is HOT.
Posted by eLarson 2006-01-19 08:14|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-01-19 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps a wider distribution of "Brokeback Mountain" will help quell the deep confusion in the male Arab world.

Buggery has always been a feature of middle eastern Arab male culture. Lack of access to females often means that young Arab males play with each other, often finding in other males their first sexual experiences.
Posted by The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2006-01-19 10:00|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]  2006-01-19 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 thanks for not giving us too much information Mr. Fliegerabwehrkanonen.

»;-)
Posted by RD 2006-01-19 10:45||   2006-01-19 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 The Indian-born Rushdie, who lives in New York with his fourth wife Padma Lakshmi

I thought Padma died while giving birth to Luke and Leia
Posted by mhw 2006-01-19 15:06||   2006-01-19 15:06|| Front Page Top

#7 mhw: bwhahahahahahaa
Posted by Besoeker 2006-01-19 20:27||   2006-01-19 20:27|| Front Page Top

#8 TAF: Buggery has always been a feature of middle eastern Arab male culture. Lack of access to females often means that young Arab males play with each other, often finding in other males their first sexual experiences.

My feeling is that this isn't widespread, and more or less an urban legend tied to the fact that many Middle Easterners of the same gender hold hands - something we see as having sexual significance that isn't in the Middle Eastern context. Middle Easterners take heterosexuality seriously - the punishment for sodomy in many Muslim countries is death. And that's just the law. In many Muslim countries, private killings of gays in gruesome ways isn't something the Taliban invented.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-01-19 22:46|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2006-01-19 22:46|| Front Page Top

#9 So there's no such thing as gay middle-easterners!
Posted by Rafael 2006-01-19 23:07||   2006-01-19 23:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, I can say that it is common in Saudi. It's no UL there. For example, it is common knowledge in al Khobar, in the news yesterday for the kid with the offensive car window sticker, that after last prayer the homosexuals congregate in the al Tamimi Safeway parking lot. Not sure when it began, exactly (didn't see it in 1992, but did in 2000), but most of the expats learned to get their shopping done during daylight hours - usually during that (approx) 1 hr gap between the 4th and 5th prayers - or wait until the "weekend" of Thur & Fri. I saw this little social phenom myself and asked Saudi acquaintences what was up. They laughed and told me it was the local meat market. I presume the "cops" know, too, but must leave it alone unless there's something flaunted.

BTW, these guys were the lucky ones - good jobs at Aramco, married, they made it. Untrue for those without their good fortune, the vast majority, who will not be able to wed until their mid-30's - a fact also confirmed by these guys. It's good to be King and it's good to be connected - which a job at Aramco requires.

The hypocrisy is beyond obvious and homosexuality is as common there as hetersexuality is here in the US. I ran across a couple of guys in the hallway at the Gulf Hotel in Manama, Bahrain - there were couches conveniently distributed at various points in the hallways. They didn't skip a stroke.

Same as the ritual that developed at the mall with the girls dropping little pieces of paper with their cell numbers through the atrium opening to the boys below. That's not puishable by death, of course, but it, too, is obviously against Shari'a.

Been there, seen it myself.

In Saudi, it's a fact, no Urban Legend.
Posted by .com 2006-01-19 23:12||   2006-01-19 23:12|| Front Page Top

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