abu_rashid wrote on Oct 1^st, 2009 at 10:41am:


And Islam is still BORING, intellectually, culturally, scientifically barren and negligible.

What have the Muslims ever done for us, Reggie? Apart from transmitting some Indian and Greek knowledge in a fit of absent mindedness  - usually they aim to destroy everything pre-Islamic.

Islam has not contributed nothing of note to the world for centuries, except mayhem in pursuit of domination. And the "final messenger's" moral universe hinders on things like which shoe to put on first and how many times you should turn around before you throw a pinch of salt over your left - no wait - your right shoulder.  Or something like that. No, it IS the left one, isn't it?

Apart from submission to Allan and Mohammed, it has nothing to offer. ANd so it has not offered anything. Its glory days were when it did not actively stand in the way of things. That's all the Golden Age was. It is a slothful creed, intellectually and otherwise, except when it comes to jihad. It's a warlods's creed. Frightful, dangerous, but still BORING.

abu_rashid wrote on Oct 1^st, 2009 at 12:58pm:

I was translating from the Arabic, as one does....

You know what was meant, that's why you are latching onto typos.

Yadda wrote on Sep 29^th, 2009 at 8:40am:



You Can't Be Serious
William Saletan writes at Slate:

If you're a woman in a conservative Muslim country, you had better bleed on your wedding night. If you don't, your husband or his family will know you aren't a virgin. For that, you could be beaten or killed.

If you're a man, on the other hand, all you have to do on your wedding night is ejaculate. Nobody expects you to bleed or produce any other proof of virginity.

Some day, this barbaric and hypocritical tradition will end. Until then, the best we can do is fool it. You want blood on your wedding night? We'll give you blood. Fake blood.

For many years, doctors have quietly offered hymenoplasty, a procedure that restores your hymen so you can fake virginity on your wedding night. And now you don't even need a doctor. Joseph Freeman of the Associated Press reports:

The Artificial Virginity Hymen kit, distributed by the Chinese company Gigimo, costs about $30. It is intended to help newly married women fool their husbands into believing they are virgins—culturally important in a conservative Middle East where sex before marriage is considered by many to be illicit. The product leaks a blood-like substance when inserted and broken. Gigimo advertises shipping to every Arab country.

On its Web site, Gigimo explains more about the product:

Artificial Virginity Hymen is created from Kyoto, Japan at 1993. it was first introduced to the locals, then it gets famous and spread to Thailand at 1995 and now available in South East Asia, South Asia and in the Middle East countries. It is mainly made of natural albumin, medical use inflation element and water-soluble base medicinal preparation which have no side effect. Insert this artificial hymen into your vagina carefully. It will expand a little and make you feel tight. When your lover penetrate, it will ooze out a liquid that look like blood not too much but just the right amount. Add in a few moans and groan, you will pass through undetectable.

Outraged Egyptian lawmakers are demanding a ban on the kit. Freeman reports:

Sheik Sayed Askar, a member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood who is on the parliamentary committee on religious affairs, said the kit will make it easier for Egyptian women to give in to temptation. He demanded the government take responsibility for fighting the product. ... Prominent Egyptian religious scholar Abdel Moati Bayoumi said anyone who imports the artificial hymen should be punished. "This product encourages illicit sexual relations. Islamic culture forbids these relations except within the confines of marriage," Bayoumi said. ... "If this thing enters Egypt, the country is going to go to waste. God protect us," commented a reader on the Web site of Egyptian newspaper Al-Youm Al-Sabie.

Pause for a moment to consider what these men are asking God to protect them from: a cheap, mass-produced insert that releases fake blood. It's the technical equivalent of a Halloween gag. But to them, this is no gag. It's an offense against God.

In this way, the artificial hymen serves as a useful test of religious idiocy. If a $30 item that leaks fake blood violates your faith so profoundly that you must ban it, then what you have isn't really a faith. It's a fetish. And your fetish won't survive globalization...

So it should be banned, since it is a device used to commit fraud and fabricate something about yourself which is not true.

abu_rashid wrote on Oct 12^th, 2009 at 9:38am:




Hmmm,

An interesting point of argument.

But this particular argument, never seems to be of any concern to those moslems who promote the veracity of the Koran.

........ or in abus mindset, protect the great deception of islam by any means ???

mantra,

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Wait a minute... can you show me where I stated anything about anyone having to be a virgin???

All I said was the devices are wrong, because they facilitate people lying and deceiving one another. Nowhere did I mention anything about anyone having to be a virgin.

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Couldn't agree more, it's despicable that a man who isn't a virgin would expect his wife to be.

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I don't know, and I don't agree with such things, and neither does Islam, but that's got nothing to do with the topic of people selling devices that help to deceive a life partner about your body...

soren,

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The quite ironic part about this topic is that your own holy book is probably the source of these stupid blood-stained sheet traditions which are still quite popular amongst many Christian cultures too btw.

And let us examine why:

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Yadda wrote on Oct 13^th, 2009 at 9:17am:




The fact is, that ISLAM is a false religion, with a false prophet, for a false people.