"Cairo Time" is actually worth your time
Yesterday, we ran a piece about the Julie Roberts’ turkey “Eat, Sleep, Fart”, or whatever it’s called, which is one of the worst movies we’ve seen in a while. Claire McCaskill’s super-8 vacation home movies from the early 80s would be more enjoyable to sit through (though, they’d probably involve more farts, knowing ClaireBear…or, as she calls them, “uh-ohs”).
Our friend Zara here in Chicago read our take on the flick and asked us if we wanted to see “Cairo Time” with her at Landmark Century just south of Boystown, and we jumped at the chance because (1) Zara is beyond awesome, (2) it involved meeting her up in Andersonville at her apartment first and having dinner at Reza’s, which we love, and (3) determining if all Hollywood travel movies are by default styled squarely in the “spaghetti harvesting unicorn riding” meme.
Frankly, we didn’t expect much from “Cairo Time”, despite having both Patricia Clarkson and Dr. Bashir from Deep Space Nine in it. We enjoy both of these people in almost everything they do. Clarkson plays such earthy, interesting characters and that man, whatever his name is, was very good pretending to be in outer space (some times he turns up as a terrorist in various things, and he was the sorta-president of kind-of Iran in the last season of 24, we think).
We thought the movie would be like “Eat, Sleep, Fart”, and prattle on about how terrible America is, and how wonderful filthy places far away are, crammed full of people begging, stealing, and murdering, with terrible plutocratic governments bleeding their people dry. Surprisingly, this was not the case for “Cairo Time”.
We’re not going to talk AT ALL about the plot, though there would have to be something wrong with you if you couldn’t figure out it’s about romance in the capital of Egypt. Because it’s not a mainstream Hollywood movie, the pacing was slow, and was really a character study of the woman Clarkson played, as she was separated from her husband by various circumstances and left on her own in Cairo to explore.
“Exploration” was an overindulged, narcissistic theme of “Eat, Sleep, Fart”, but this was not “explore” in the sense of “finding yourself”. It was “exploring” in the sense of being a stranger in a strange land and taking in the overwhelmingly alien culture around you.
That’s what we love most about travel, though we tend to focus on exploring the greatness that is the United States. We love dropping into a new part of the country, like we did in 27 states during the 2008 campaign, and finding all the local differences, learning how people do things, and seeing what novel treats and surprises they had to offer. In going to all these places, we learned a lot about our fellow Americans, but even more so about ourselves. The same was true for Clarkson in this movie, as she found herself confronted by the bluntness of Egypt.
Long gone are the charms and wonders of the pharaohs, and the film didn’t shy away from the oppressiveness, misogyny, and general craziness of Islam. In one of the first moments in the film, Clarkson is sweltering in a car zooming through the city, and she’s wearing a light button-down shirt and shorts, with her long blond hair blowing in the breeze out the window. The car passes countless women wrapped up in sheets and towels like mummies, wearing the Muslim burquas and hajibs and other instruments of textile torture. They’re all sweating profusely, looking like they are going to pass out from heatstroke, while the men around them galavant around in shorts, tank tops, and whatever they want to wear. Clarkson asks why the women have to be wrapped up like that, and her Muslim driver just shrugs and says, “They’re used to it. They like it”.
We’ve always wondered what it’s like to be a young Muslim girl, which are allowed to run around wearing normal, sensible things in the heat, who reaches the age of maturity and thus needs to be mummified according to these barbarians. Is it horrifying for these girls to have to walk around under the baking sun wrapped up in black wool? How badly does everyone smell after sweating all day like this? What sadistic man dreamed up this nonsense?
Later in the film, the reason for the mummy wrappings is made clear as Clarkson goes out for a stroll in Cairo, looking in shop windows, as a group of Muslim men gathers behind her, intent on raping her. The men are in their early 20s and behave like a pack of dogs. They rush her, try biting and licking her, and ultimately force her into a shop where a kindly old man chases them away and lets Clarkson regroup and collect herself before heading back to her hotel. The excuse for their behavior, like with everything related to Islam, is that these animals can’t control themselves so it is a woman’s fault for being beautiful and having blond hair that makes them all go crazy.
When Clarkson is told this, in a cafe where men sit around all day, not working, “doing nothing” (as so idolized in the Julia Roberts snoozefest), she corrects the man speaking by saying she’s too old to be beautiful, and that she’s not had young men come after her like that in a very long time. “But you are a woman, this is natural,” is the response given, with the sick implication that it doesn’t matter if a woman is 15 or 85, if she’s walking around Cairo there’s a very good chance a mob of young men will rape her, because anything bipedal with a vagina and a pulse is fair game for sexual violation whenever the urge arises in a mob of unemployed, Muslim thugs.
“They just can’t control themselves and aren’t expected to” is the order of the day.
As people with penises we have to just note, this is not the case. A penis can be a magical and talented thing, but it never, ever has the anatomic ability to take control of a body. The heart may want what it wants, but the penis gets what it gets, and only when the brain tells it to go somewhere or do something. So all of this Lefty hooey about Muslims not having the ability to control their sexual urges or having any accountability for what they do to women is just ridiculous.
This misogynistic attitude towards women is carried out through the rest of the film, with Muslims treating women more or less as things, lower than favored pets but a little higher than wheelbarrows or ice cream machines because at least women can be used for rape, which appears to be something of an intramural sport on the streets of Cairo.
Clarkson is enchanted by the city, and how exotic it is, though, so she doesn’t spend too much time worried about the near-sexual assault. She goes on a boat ride, sees the pyramids, has a picnic with British elitists that could have been served in 1890, takes a train ride, and witnesses a traditional Egyptian wedding (where, oddly, the bride and bride’s mother are dressed as prostitutes and forced to belly dance for all the men in attendance).
But, through it all Clarkson never has that “America’s bad, foreign places are good” attitude that Julia Roberts and so many on the Left have. She explores Cairo, tries to find a way to negotiate its dangers, and lets her imagination run wild with the exoticism of the place…but she never knocks America, and consistently reaffirms that things are different back in the States, and that difference is not a bad thing.
Her daughter in the film just graduated college, lives alone, and is traveling by herself on a break while looking for a job. The Muslims are horrified by this, because they believe that daughter should be wrapped up in sheets somewhere, maybe in the laundry room, locked up in chains until a man can decide what he wants to do with her. Similar control is demanded of Clarkson’s son, who eloped, and the Muslims say he should be disowned and punished, but Clarkson says he needs to be who he is and he’s not under her control anymore. That’s a concept Islam doesn’t seem to understand, that human beings have inherent freedom hard-wired into them, and that at the age of maturity ALL people, regardless of their gender, have the ability to set their own courses and live their own lives.
Fat, gross, dirty men hanging out in coffee shops plotting their next rape shouldn’t be able to keep daughters and wives wrapped up in walking ovens waiting outside in the hot sun, or slaving at home to cook, clean, and prepare for the triumphant return home of these Muslim men.
That’s just ridiculous, and it’s heart-breaking these women allow themselves to be treated this way, in any country. It’s terrifying to think of Islam wanting to bring this nonsense, and Sharia law, to our shores, the way it’s doing in parts of Europe. This is not a culture or society to emulate in any way, shape, or form.
But, the movie “Cairo Time” felt like taking a little trip to Egypt and bearing witness to a lot of this madness, with glimpses of the city and ancient ruins as well.
We left sad to see how little of pharaohic Egypt is really left, and how much Islam dominates a country we’ve always thought it would be interesting to visit. But, instead, we’d rather just go to the Luxor Casino in Las Vegas or visit the Field Museum here in Chicago where they have a great Egyptian exhibit. Maybe we’ll watch clips from “The Ten Commandments” or Michael Jackson’s “Remember the Time” video on YouTube if we ever need a major Egyptian fix. The Bangles will do on 80s Request Night at Sidetracks as well.
Our friend Zara’s actually been to Egypt, and she said the Nile smells like a sewer and the men are even worse than what was shown in the film. When she went, she was with her brothers and father AND a hired Egyptian guide who carried a club like police here used in old-timey days. And the guide used the club on some of these street thugs on more than one occasion, when they leered too threateningly at Zara or her mother.
“That movie was all the Egypt I ever need again,” she said. “I remember the exotic nature of the place, but thankfully I couldn’t smell it, and I didn’t need to have a 300lb man with me ready to beat off guys who wanted to rape me. So, for $9, I had a better time than I did on that $2,000 vacation”.
That’s money well spent, then, in our book.
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The actor’s name is Alexander Siddiq. I enjoy watching whatever he appears in. Otherwise, you boyz have been posting some awesome stuff here lately. I really enjoy my daily fix.
There was an article written by a very brave (or batchit crazy) dancer who decide to travel through Greece, Turkey etc dancing at different clubs and venues.
She wrote about it in the Gilded Serpent Ezine (I can’t find the article) But the attitude of the males was very much like you described.
As one taxi driver told her “If a woman is out alone, it means her husband isn’t taking care of her like he should (implying sex)” Then over and over, she’d either get lewd offers or some outright gropes and grabs with the attitude and outright statements that women were out of control carnal creatures desperate for sex. As she described it, NONE of these guys looked remotely like what any sane woman would look at, much less marry.
She heard it over and over and they saw NOTHING wrong with their behavior. To put it crudely, these guys wouldn’t female sexual pleasure it if slapped their heads off. Women are things.
Seriously, it’s pervy, penis based belief system.
And yet they are the ones that think they are qualified to guard OUR honor. The same assholes who want to destroy it. Riiiiight — fox and henhouse.
I was listening to NPR today about the vulnerability of women & children in Pakistan due to the floods, because the men were sending them away so they could stay with the properties….ad in this patriarchal society it’s akin to open season on the women & especially the kids for trafficking….This from a Pakistani relief worker….
Crime INC !!!!!!!! as people suffer the wealth is sucked right out of the system and consolidated into the hands of our Government Leadership , all in the name of saving the earth , oh yeah its all about elimination of earths overpopulation fears by the elite is what its all about , Google Overpopulation or Earths Carrying Capacity for Human Life and get up to speed on what is really behind the Climate change debate !!!!
Obama’s cronies make the Mafia look like rank amateurs (Soetoro/Obama Plan to Scam America for $10 Trillion Per Year )
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/145/892/Obamas_cronies_make_the_Mafia_look_like_rank_amateurs_Soetoro_Obama_Plan_to_Scam_America_for_10_Trillion_Per_Year.html
And what EXACTLY does this posting have to do with the article?
NOTHING!
I may not like the Dear Leader’s agenda, but I think I dislike SPAM postings even more!
Yes, please stick these in the open thread. We would all appreciate it.
sorry I thought it said open thread before Cairo time
Thank you for this movie synopsis. I will be sure to avoid it. I have often felt with the ‘honor killings’ or stonings where they rape the woman first and then kill her, it’s just that men see a pretty woman and want the excuse to rape her. Nothing more. And they use the cloak of their ‘religion’ to say it’s okay. What a crock of you know what.
When the movie “Sex and the City II” came out I was very distressed to see in previews that the 4 women went to the middle east and seemed to aggrandize it. Oh how great it is, they thought, to be in Dubai, Eritz Emerites, etc. They think they will have a wonderful adventure there, so romantic, what a culture, etc. I almost did not want to see the movie (love the NY girls, just can’t help it), but I did go and was happy to see that their love of the middle east soon turned to fear and horror as one of the girls was taunted because she dared to kiss and/or hold hands with a man in public and she was followed by middle eastern men and feared for her life. Public displays are definitely forbidden (I guess the raping is done in private then). The movie you mention sounds very complex and brings up a lot of points that are interesting. But the more I see these places the more I love and appreciate the good old U.S.A. Frankly, I would rather spend my money here and not give it to countries who hate us or wish to do us harm.
A colleague of mine got stuck going on a business trip to Basra, Iraq several years ago. I was told because I was a woman I shouldn’t attend as the client would be insulted. All my feminazi friends were telling me that I should get in the clients face. Are you kidding me? I would pay to not go there. Especially after my associate returned and showed me pictures of 3 dead palm trees next to a pool. Wow, there is really a lot to do there. Then he told me that he was given a driver, Mohammad, to chauffeur him around. He said the Mohammad was a very nice mild mannered man and quite friendly. The last day of his trip a different driver showed up to take him to the airport. My associate asked the driver to please thank Mohammad for him and to tell him that he was sorry that he didn’t get to say good-bye. The new driver replied that Mohammad had to take care of some business. It was rumored that Mohammad’s sister was having an affair and he had to kill her. Yes, kill his sister, not the man she supposedly was having an affair with.
I say we should ship all those feminazi’s over there stat!
Which makes me even angrier that Travel Channel was pushing Anthony Bourdain’s show about Saudi Arabia and how women are treated so wonderfully and are “cherished” and that we just “misunderstand” them.
Right. Female circumcision. Honor killings. Covered from head to toe. Not being able to drive or go anywhere without a male relative as an escort. I understand completely.
Right. Female circumcision.
It’s not a circumscision, it’s an amputation or excision of a sex organ. We shouldn’t use THEIR language to mitigate what a horrible procedure genital mutilation is.
As for Bourdain, there was something eminently skeevy about him, the first time I saw him on the Food Network. Just reminded me of every metrosexual jerk I’ve known who gets off on his own underarm funk, but believes himself the King of All Hipness.
A friend of mine some thirty years ago told me of receiving a letter from a friend of hers in Iran who told this story: A man this Iranian woman knew was angry at another man and instead of killing the man, he killed the man’s wife and children. The rationale, he said, was that if he killed the man, the man’s suffering would be over with, but if he killed the man’s wife and children the man would suffer the rest of this life.
“Dr. Bashir from Deep Space Nine”
That guy’s really good — see if you can snag a movie he did a while back with Ralph Fiennes about Lawrence of Arabia. Awesome movie.
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (made for TV movie, 1990ish)
Dr. Bashir = Alexander Sidding = Siddig El-Fadil back then
“So all of this Lefty hooey about Muslims not having the ability to control their sexual urges or having any accountability for what they do to women is just ridiculous.”
It’s not racist when they imply that dark men can’t control their animalistic sex drives, though.
“The men are in their early 20s and behave like a pack of dogs. They rush her …”
You just explained why asshole young liberal males are so welcoming to Islam and shariah law. You just described most of the Obama-loving frat boys that have ever existed.
What’s interesting is that there is such similarities between that attitude and Christian Patriarchy. Both are screwed up – and act like men just can’t help themselves.
With the difference that, in the Judeo Christian West, there’s a secular society outside of the religious mandates. The religious can hope to campaign and influence, but so can everyone else.
As messed up as Christian Patriarchy is, no one is systematically executed for apostasy, homosexuality, adultery etc. There’s no way the majority of society would tolerate it – and that actually counts for something.
I was raised in that kind of home (a super fundy Patriarchy) and as bad as it was, I know it’s like comparing a fender bender to a train wreck when comparing Christianity to Islam.
EZ- Thanks for the necessary qualification. Partriarchy is alive and well, but in NO WAY compares to the deviancy of Islam/Sharia law.
Your mileage may vary. I grew up in a Christian community which honored work by women in the church and celebrated women’s achievements. My great-grandmother had her own business and my grandmother worked outside the home, which was considered wonderful because she earned a pension.
My mother told me that it was tough sometimes because her father expected her/her sister to work as hard as their brothers at school and in the fields. He even expected them to go away to college when the opportunity presented itself. It was Biblical, you see. They had God-given talents that they needed to use!
It wasn’t until I was much older that I heard someone disrespect my parents by telling my father he should “control his wife” because she was argued with a neighbor (a man) about the property line. He was a different denomination of Christian.
You know they practise female genital mutilation, right? Granted the Copts do it too, but only Islam has a Hadith recommending it – but only if it doesn’t interfere with the man’s pleasure.
And don’t give me guff about how it’s not in the Koran itself. None of the five pillars, as well as the prohibition on alcohol, are in the Koran as they are practised.
The Hadith are almost as important as the Qur’an. If Americans would exert themselves just a tiny bit to understand a few basics about Islam, we’d be better prepared to defend ourselves against it.
Here’s a great little video you can send to all your friends, “Three Things You Need to Know About Islam”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0deanRGb8w&feature
“They just can’t control themselves and aren’t expected to”.
I think the second part of that statement is true.
Getting back to the reviews of two FILMS kids, I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time as the description of “Eat, Pray, Fart” made me laugh. It is a rough week, culminating on Friday with the anniversary of my mother’s death and a week later the anniversary of my godson’s death. So thanks Boyz for making one sad lady laugh out loud. Wendy Williams was having trouble getting the name of that film out too. I know she looks like a drag queen but I find her amusing.
Wendy Williams makes me regret being female. I’m sure that she’s probably a ‘nice person’, but her behavior is basically repellent.
Plus, if you go to the Luxor to get your pharoic fix, you get to see Carrot Top! JACKPOT! Seriously, though, if any of you come to Vegas it would be an honor to personally shake your hands. For me it would be kind of like when Kevin and Joaquin met the Palins. You guys are just too fabulous.
If you want to see Egypt you can also watch some version of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. I’ve heard David Suchet is regarded as the quintessential Hercule Poirot.
Actually, there are gobs of 1950ish Egyptian movies that look exactly like they were made in Hollywood. Except they have belly dancers, some thobes and the Casino Opera. But the story lines are right out of Fred and Ginger movies (Youtube them)and the women dress just like US women did during that era (for the most part).
Not a burqa or hijab in sight.
Prior to the encroachment of fundamentalism, Egyptian movies rivaled the US in sales in Europe. The culture even then very westernized and so the movies LOOK like they were made here— except for a few of the giveaways. Even now, there are some fabulous movies being made over there that remind me of old Dynasty or Jerry Lewis stuff.
It’s a weird dichotomy between the modern age and placating the extremists in their midst.
Clarkson asks why the women have to be wrapped up like that, and her Muslim driver just shrugs and says, “They’re used to it. They like it”.
I’m seeing more American women draped in black sheets – walking to the bus stop, shopping at Whole Foods, etc. Of the five I’ve seen, four were black. I’m at a loss as to how the Proud Black Female (exemplified by Latifah, Tina Turner, C. Delores Tucker, any number of African-American iconic figures), could submit themselves to be designated as second class citizens. It’s OK to be subjugated by your black muslim husband, but not by any other race or religion? It is quite the disconnect.
Some women decide that any man is better than no man…
That’s true. There is a certain mindset that allows that to happen.
I used to use Yahoo Messenger for my work and had it on all day. I had random muslim men (Mostly Eqyptian, some Pakistani, a lot of African) IM me randomly EVERY DAY trying to find a wife. It was scary. One was so creepy I called the FBI and told them about it. They already knew. I am so glad I don’t use Yahoo IM any more.
It comes from never having a father figure to cherish, protect or love you. So finally, having a man that ‘over protects’ to the point he locks you away is so ‘romantic’.
Is it unhealthy and wrong? Yes, but I blame it on not having healthy male relationships growing up.
Fun fact: More money was spent on the stimulus program bill than entire Iraq war.
Makes you wonder how Obama can blame Bush for this “crisis” we’re in. He has tripled the deficit.
In fact..We have spent less money on the Iraqi and Afghan wars COMBINED than was budgeted for Obamacare.
The left wants us to fixate on religion. They want this all to be about race and religion. A-la-mosque controversy. The more they can “shame” us into submission the more they think they can win. It keeps us from talking about how our capitalist country is being bankrupt by their policies. We don’t talk about the wealth redistribution. The MSM sits there night after night calling the right racist and intolerant.
Let’s talk about how Murtha and John Kerry called our Marines murderers. Let’s talk about how the Democrats are using our tax dollars as personal slush funds. If the Democrats think they can fool the American people AGAIN they are betting on the wrong horse.
My mother is currently in the hospital and we spoke to very dedicated, conscientious and hard-working doctors and surgeons. Guess what, many of them are wanting to figure out an alternate employment and say they plan to leave the medical profession within the next 3 years (before OBAMACARE becomes effective). See, many of the good doctors, etc. want no part of Mr. Hope and Change’s Wealth Redistribution Act A/K/A Health care reform. They know it will severely restrict and limit what they will be able to do and do not want to be any part of it anyway, anyhow. Very sad as these people are excellent in their field and will be missed.
To your point about the Left complaining about how terrible America is:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/23/AR2010082303880.html
The U.S. State Dept. grovels before the throne of the UN.
I saw that…they said that the Imam was “taken out of context”. Ironically, he insulted Bill Clinton’s administration as well.
amazing how we have become so aware of things muslim since nobama was anointed..
adult women should know better, than to be led like sheep.. i feel for the young innocent minds who will be indoctrinated into this “religion”!
….the Borg of our times:
‘ prepare for assimilation…. resistance is futile….’
Does anyone else find it stunningly ironic that the same arab “men” who admit that they have absolutely *no* self-control when they see a woman’s hair – that their penises take total command of their mind and body, and they’re driven to a sexual frenzy, unable to stop themselves from commiting rape – claim that they can be “responsible” caretakers of nuclear weaponry?
Duh! Yep. But that is part of the Arabic mindset and why it’s directly oppositional to the US and the constitution.
Personal responsibility doesn’t exist. If I slap you, it’s YOUR fault for behaving in a manner that made me hurt you. Apologies truly are signs of weakness.
In ’72 I woke up on a bus late one night and stepped out into the poorly lit streets of Oaxaca, Mexico. The 20th century had disappeared. In one direction was a large and ancient cathedral. All around were stone and adobe walls and local Indians dropping off the endings of Spanish words mixed with their native language. A nice sensation.
I just looked up the wedding scene from the movie (you piqued my curiosity) and the music is awesome, the drummer is amazing!
I’ve belly danced at weddings and it’s a tradition dating back for dang, 70 years. Prior to the fundy’s ruining it…American dancers could go to Egypt and make a good living just dancing the wedding circuit.
Westerners hire a band, Arabs have a dancer– and she’s more for the WOMEN than for the men. There’s no ‘dressing up like prostitutes’ in this scene. What you see are how women dance at parties and family gatherings,complete with hip scarves. It’s that one time they can actually let their hair down and be themselves and just DANCE!
Again, it’s this weird dichotomy of female power and strength in dance. We don’t have it (wish we did, but that’s why I teach it).
It’s what you do at home (pre TV etc) Nightclub dancing didn’t come into being until the late 1930′s…now THAT is the bastardization of the dance.
Just want to clarify, because it’s a good scene with very good music, good dancing and pretty authentic to an upscale Arabic Wedding.
Just Youtube Belly Dance at Wedding OR
Check out Nancy Ajrams “Lawn Eiounik”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igMMnZ-KXAY
Or even better, this oldie from Nagua Fouad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuALxe26wLU
One more reason I love you boyz!!
THANK YOU for your little discourse about Muslim women about to pass out in the heat. “Textile torture” is a great phrase, which I will henceforth use.
I get SO PISSED at all the “liberal” men out there, appeasing Islam and being all “multicultural” and all–it apparently doesn’t matter one tiny bit to them that Islam makes SLAVES of half of the human population!!!
Thank you, dear guys, for empathizing with us women. One of the reasons I feel at home here!
I can’t stand their clothing, even the headscarves alone. It’s visceral–to me it’s looking at the garb of submission to some ancient nutcase’s beliefs. The only reason why is that it represents something alien, anti-life, intolerant and destructive, much like a black Gestapo uniform or a Deaths Head-SS insignia. Evil?
I live in a place in NYC which has quite a few (UN and otherwise)Muslims, and whenever I see the headscarves and burkas, the men in the painters caps and the dirty underwear, I feel like ripping them off. I feel like screaming at the women about their garb of slavery in the freedom that is America. But generally the women are bovine, slow, pushing their baby carriages (another front in the war). I note how they treat their children–letting their little boys scream and tear about on elevators and the subway, because they are boys, while the little girls already have the cowed, subjugated, walk-five-paces-behind look. I look how cold their men are with the women, traveling in male packs and the women trailing behind.
I don’t feel that way about Indian women in their colorful saris, nor the African women in their tall headdresses and regal, full, bright dresses which cover and wrap. Wonder why?
Amen, sister!
I’m so glad to know I’m not the only one who feels this way. Living in the boonies as I do, I rarely see Muslim women–but on those occasions when I’m in a big city, and encounter women in hijabs, IT IS ALL I CAN DO to NOT rip those damn things off of them!
Dee, you captured it so perfectly: that garb “represents something alien, anti-life, intolerant and destructive.”
God bless the Hindu women and the African non-Muslim women! You’re so right. People like you and I are NOT xenophobic or anti-immigrant. We’re just ANTI-SLAVERY!
I read this stuff and it makes me depressed. It’s like living but not being human.
I remember when I was in college a friend of mine was dating an Egyptian who was in the US on a student visa..She waxed poetic about him and their plans while we were drinking at a bar one night…
At the serious risk of her never talking to me again I asked her if she was ready to give up her freedom…Because if she married him that would eventually happen…
She was pissed at me but after a while she broke it off with him…I think maybe since I wasn’t impressed it made a slight diff & opened her eyes a little ( her catholic family were not thrilled either )…I mean I had met him a few times and what a prick…just sayin’
UGH!!!!
I think the medievals had it right: Didn’t Dante and Michelangelo both depict Mohammed as a resident of Hell?
Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West ; watch the video link here ……..
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http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/24735232/detail.html
Bodies hung from bridge in Cuernavaca, Mexico http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11054730
Gunmen battling police take hostages in luxury hotel in Rio, but surrender after 3 hours
http://www.latimes.com/sns-ap-lt-brazil-violence,0,539261.story
Why are beheadings so popular with Mexico drug gangs?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/01/91481/beheadings-become-signature-of.html
El Paso Schools Already Have Plans In Case Of Shooting
http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/24735232/detail.html
Islam is not a religion.
It is a cult dedicated to the practice of extreme misogyny and a haven for pathetic, insecure, un-selfactualized males.
Before we get to the misogyny, we will go through our loss of freedom and subjugation to the ‘laws’ of a 7th century ‘religion’.
Pat Buchanan said it most economically in this essay:http://bit.ly/9otlbA
“Islam is a rising faith, the largest on earth, with 1.5 billion adherents. It is a militant faith that believes it will one day encompass all mankind. It holds there is but one God, Allah, that his last and greatest prophet was Muhammad, that Islam, the path of submission, is the path of salvation. It believes that its sacred book, the Koran, should inform the culture, that Sharia should be the basis of civil law.
Where it has become the dominant faith, it has been intolerant of rivals, especially Christianity, the faith of the Crusaders.
By no means are all or most Muslims fanatics of the Osama bin Laden variety, but many are uncompromising in their belief that once their faith becomes the majority faith in a community or society, Muslims should write the rules and Muslims should make the laws.
And if Americans believe that Islam is consistent with pluralism, ecumenism and a belief in the equality of all religions and all lifestyles, we are headed for what the Chinese call “interesting times.”
again and again i am reminded of what my dad told me many moons ago when my mom wanted to take me to church (he was an atheist) “religion is the opium of the people”!
What sadistic man dreamed up this nonsense? Well, perhaps not Muhammed, since I don’t think the burqa is mentioned in the Koran itself, but some later Muslim with deep, deep sexual insecurities & a hefty touch of misogyny. Islamic culture is really just all the worst aspects of male behavior brought to the fore, and justified by religion. I have no idea why people think Christianity is even comparable to this horror show. Mostly though, Islam just demonstrates what a sick, sick man Muhammed was.
There is a book I read recently that I recommend to everyone who wants a view of Muslim culture “from the inside.” It’s by Dr. Wafa Sultan, a Syrian woman who’s now an American citizen. In her book, “A God Who Hates,” she describes in unforgettable detail what it’s like to grow up in a Muslim culture. And Syria is “moderate” compared to Saudi Arabia or Iran!
She describes the contrast when she first came to America, how hard it was to actually get accustomed to freedom from fear! Her first job here was as a gas-station attendant, and she got treated with more respect and kindness in that lowly job than she’d been treated with as a PHYSICIAN in Syria! It’s heartrending.
I keep wondering, as we focus in on Islam and the NYC ‘victory mosque’, what the other hand of Barry Zero (and his puppet masters) is doing.
there would have to be something wrong with you if you couldn’t figure out it’s about romance in the capital of Egypt
Well, I was about to ask if Cairo was pronounced KI-roh, or KAY-roh. Given that y’all are in Illinois you should be passingly familiar with the later.
That would be Cairo, Illinois.
I just saw the movie this weekend and I found it boring. I love Patricia Clarkson, not familiar with the Arab actor. However in reading your description of this movie with your Westernized comments, I am more than offended as a woman of color. Do you know anything at all about the fabrics used in the hajib and or the burka? You may not agree with the Egptian culture but your references to “rape” throughout your analysis of the movie was way off base. She was not walking around observing the centuries old culture of the country she was visiting. Her husband, if he worked for the UN should have advised her. Would you have prefereed her walking around like the likes of Lyndsay Lohan or Paris hilton with her breast hanging out and her butt cheeks showing that is so prevalent among western women? No wonder there are some cultures that still count decency as a measure of their women. Please, I am sure that it was not about “rape” as much as it was trying to show her why in their culture she was way out of line. Westerners are still ego driven and think their way is the only way. I am not saying I agree with why women cannot have the same freedoms as men in these cultures but to accuse them of wanting to rape the main character is way, way out of line. It took her midway through the movie to understand she should cover herself and show respect. What you westerners need to research is why faiths in this country also came out of these cultures. Why do you think years ago Catholics and other faiths women must wear head coverings to church? Our ways are not “better” or more intelligent for women as choices, I see them as having come a long way into making our women nothing but whores and sluts. Look through your magazines at the clothes our young women are being taught to wear or lack thereof and then compare it to theser ancient cultures. I think our women are more about sluttyness than being about dignity.