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2005-03-19 Home Front: WoT

N.Y. Prayer Service Irks Mideast Muslims

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Posted by PlanetDan 2005-03-19 4:58:08 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The way that Muslims are always going on about how women's bodies stir uncontrollable desire in men is both pathetic and ridiculous. The testosterone level is so low in that part of the world that they can't fight like men, they can only gather the courage to attack women, children, and people who can't fight back. They skulk around and blow up people. The only reason that their birth rate is so high is that their women are forced to submit to their "men" whenever the men want. Even so, the Arabs just can't get it up without some of the highest rates of viagra use in the world.

Posted by Random thoughts 2005-03-19 6:43:29 PM|| 2005-03-19 6:43:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I heard a Moslem woman rant about a lot of these "opinions" that have no, zero, foundation in the Koran. And, she said, whenever you point this out you are told to "shut up, women don't know these things, only men know this." Kind of a neat catch-22 there.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-19 6:55:19 PM|| 2005-03-19 6:55:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The way that Muslims are always going on about how women's bodies stir uncontrollable desire in men is both pathetic and ridiculous.

In the 80s I got the same thing as a woman minister in church - and I assure you my dress and behavior was modest. Cop out on the guys' part.

Posted by anon MDiv 2005-03-19 7:13:07 PM|| 2005-03-19 7:13:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The Islamic prayer requires prostration in which the forehead is on the ground. Most people can't do this without putting their behind up.

If you assume that this prostration is required and you assume that you want the worship to be free of carnal thoughts, you have a fairly strong case against mixed gender worship.

Posted by mhw 2005-03-19 7:37:00 PM|| 2005-03-19 7:37:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Many of the women who attended the service in New York were modestly dressed and, in accordance with Islamic tradition, covered their hair with the hijab, or head scarf.

If I remember correctly, isn't this a "tradition" that dates back to the Iranian revolution of the 1970s, and has no other antecendent?

Posted by Scott 2005-03-19 7:45:55 PM|| [http://balticblog.blogspot.com/] 2005-03-19 7:45:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 mhw - except that doesn't Arabs have one of the highest occurances of homosexuality around? (In spite of the Koran...).

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-03-19 8:17:43 PM|| 2005-03-19 8:17:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Crazyfool

Good question. Some parts of the Islamic world (jeddah in Soddy Arabia; Kanduhar in Afghanistan) have visible homosexual partnerships.

Other parts of the Islamic world have an underground homosexual society (Egypt has such a society).

Your guess is probably as good as anyone else's here.

Posted by mhw 2005-03-19 9:40:09 PM|| 2005-03-19 9:40:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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