Im just saying

I thought some of you might find this article interesting:

"Gangsta rap, Afghan style"

Some great lines in the article

-Besho admits wistfully that one day he hopes to include some of what is called "shaking the booty" into his videos. (NOTE: This is followed by a picture of women clad in the blye abayas.)

The new generation are impressionable," Maulvi Mohammed Seddiq, former adviser on Sharia law to the Supreme Court says. "When these dancers are shaking the backside and the front side, this excites the young people. We have less sex crimes in Islam because in Islam we have forbidden the temptations that cause these crimes."

-...the country's Supreme Court sought to ban Tolo TV for showing the Charlton Heston sword and sandals epic, "The Ten Commandments", during Ramadan in 2004. "It showed the prophet Moses with short trousers and among the girls," Wahid Mujdah, a Supreme Court spokesman, said at the time. "He's a very holy person and Islam respects him. This is wrong."

1. GOP abruptly pulls ethics bill from House floor

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/27/congress.ethics.ap.ap/index.html

 

I think this title speaks for itself

2. Fox anchor named Bush press secretary

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/26/snow/index.html

 

Again, it's too good.

3. Leaders visit [soldiers in Iraq]; front-line troops say, 'Yeah, so?'

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/27/damon.baladtroops/index.html

 

The opening lines here are priceless:  As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made their surprise visits to Baghdad on Wednesday, many of the troops stationed north of Baghdad, in Balad and Dujail, say either they didn't know about it or didn't care.   They said what??  Or the most interesting news stories from around the globe:

1. Kenyan women's rights activists have condemned an MP who told parliament that women usually say "No" to sex, even if they mean "Yes" . ..During a debate on a new sex crimes law, Paddy Ahenda said Kenya women were too shy to openly say "Yes" and warned the law could prevent marriage…  "If the bill is adopted the way it is, it will prevent men from courting women and this will be a serious impediment to the young who would want to marry," said Mr Ahenda…."In our culture, when women say 'No', they mean 'Yes' unless it's a prostitute."   The bill's first version recommended that rapists be castrated but this has now been dropped.

Umm let's all be thanked we aren't courted according the Mr. Ahenda's Kenyan customs!   And why do they always drop the castration clause?

 

 

 

2. Iran's religious right is voicing growing opposition to a decision to let women watch football matches for the first time since the 1979 revolution.  Four grand ayatollahs and several MPs have protested against the move, saying it violates Islamic law for a woman to look at the body of a male stranger.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4947508.stm Look ladies, now we can watch football matches too! 

 

 

3. The girls' first stop was the famous coffee shop on
   Thaliya Street
   ," al-Sanei writes in one passage. "The young men realised the shaded windows of the X5 car concealed a valuable catch. They surrounded the car from every direction. "They either shouted out their numbers or held them up written on big signs that had been prepared in advance so that they could be seen clearly by girls in passing cars." …the Minister of Culture, Iyad Madani, says it reflects the way many young people in the Kingdom actually live.

    

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4938524.stm   Um so I have been saying this about Saudi Arabia for HOW long?