Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 12:37:25 -0500
Subject: Re: yippi yi eh (New Yorker Article)


At 10:16 AM 5/2/2004, g'reg wrote:
> > Such dehumanization is unacceptable in any culture,
> > but it is especially so in the Arab world.
> > Homosexual acts are against Islamic law and it is
> >humiliating for men to be naked in front of other
> > men,
>
>as though judaism and xtianity applaud such things. if
>these things were being done against italians in italy
>would the writer say 'but it is especially so in italy
>with it's strong roman catholic law.' i doubt it.

Like all religions and religious nuts, Islam is more perfect in the telling 
than the acting.  One of the dirty secrets of Taliban Afghanistan and the 
whole fundamentalist madrassas movement is the pedophilia that runs rampant 
when you repress women and sexuality.   The numbers of boys being abused in 
Afghanistan was a matter of discussion a few months after the fall of the 
Taliban.
I get a chuckle out of islamic defenders taking umbrage at the nakedness of 
the men, much the same as I got a laugh out of the fundamentalist xtians 
getting caught with their pants down, literally.




carp