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May 03, 2011
Other than Ben Laden: Awrah, ownership & Turkish Playboy covergirls, liberation porn
As the All Ben Laden show is boring, I turn my attention to a good old Aqoul topic, Muslim sex: Playboy's Muslim Cover Girl: Is Sila Sahin Good for Women? - The Daily Beast, which is a very silly article positing that a German-Turkish woman's German Playboy cover represents an interesting event for Muslim women.
Actress Sila Sahin has sparked outrage as the first Turkish woman to pose for Playboy—but perhaps her rebellion will inspire other Muslims to define modesty and honor for themselves, says Asra Q. Nomani.
German-Muslim actress Sila Sahin, 25, is causing quite a stir as the first Turkish woman to undress for Playboy, posing in the May issue of the magazine's German edition. "For me, these pictures are an act of liberation from the cultural constraints of my childhood," the star of the German soap opera Good Times, Bad Times told Playboy. "I have tried to please everybody for too long. With these images I want to show young Turkish women that it is OK to live the way they are, that it is not cheap to show skin, that you should pursue your goals instead of bowing down to others."
I'm not a fan of porn as a symbol of empowerment, but as a Muslim woman, hearing divinely sanctioned mandates all my life about what a good Muslim girl looks like, I can understand why Sahin has responded to our community sanctions about honor, shame and modesty by stripping—and why members of her family have ostracized her for it. The battle over the Muslim woman's body is a debate over a simple Islamic concept: awrah (or awra), an Arabic word that refers to the zones of women and men forbidden from the public eye. While it's an equal opportunity word, it's the excuse some Muslim men use to subordinate, silence, segregate and cloak women from Afghanistan to Seattle, Washington.
And in fact, Sahin's decision to pose for the nudie mag may mark an important milestone on Muslim women's path to defining awrah for themselves. Recently, France banned the veil—in part because it perpetuates the notion that a woman's body is forbidden. Sahin's exhibitionism takes this concept to an extreme. Yet similar to how American women responded to the sexually repressive mores of the 1950s with the sexual revolution of the 1960s, only to find a happy medium of sexual freedom in the decades that followed, perhaps acts like Sahin's will prove liberating.
While I have no criticism of the posing, frankly the idea that there is symbolism for Muslim women seems rather bizarre - and given that models like Iman (Somali) have long been present, I find it hard to see an impact... Although to be uncharitable, perhaps for Anglophone South Asian origin authors, black African Muslim models and Maghrebine models (and porn stars) don't really count.
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January 30, 2011
Rached Ghannouchi Returns to Tunisia (with rant on Anti-Islamist Panic)
Exiled Ennahda party leader Rached Ghannouchi was received by enthusiastic crowd when his plane landed. Given that he is somewhat of an Islamist, apparenlty his presence doesn't count as a step towards True Democracy, in the proposals of Robert Satloff, who wants the US to sponsor a new wave of Arab democratic government which would, apparently, not allow any non-secular or at least Islamist party to participate. In other words, the same thing all over again, a Ben Ali, only with multiple parties. Rant below, on anti-Islamist Panic.
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March 27, 2010
Ongoing Social Vents: Yemen Child Marriage, Saudi Poetess Scolds Muftis, etc.
Molestation Contestation: Yemen Battles Over Child Marriage Laws.
Muftis Get Rapped: Poetess Socks It to the Jeddah Valley PTA. "I have seen evil in the eyes of fatwas. . . barbaric, angry and blind, wearing death as a robe cinched with a belt".
Non-Mideast Non-Muslims Riot Over Non-Danish Video Images. But, but, but,only Muslims get violent when imagery of their sacred founder gets offensive, right? Others never do that, at least these days, right? Occasionally elsewhere too though, theatrical performances can also unite a few Muslims and Christians (see last paragraph) in shared death-threat issuance. This must be what is meant by the unifying power of art. . . .
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December 28, 2009
Wehbe 2.0: A Whiter Shade of Palestinian?
(Apologies to Procul Harum (Haram?) for whom, unlike the Palestinians, 1967 was good year.) With a lot less denial than the late Michael Jackson, Palestinian women are reported to be aggressively consuming skin-whitening products. This, according to The Christian Science Monitor, which also cites and links to the recent lament about anti-dark skin sentiment among Arabs written by Nesrine Malik in the Guardian (UK) not long ago and also blogged about here at Aqoul. The pigment adjusting phenomenon appears partly inspired by such figures as the scintillating Lebanese chanteuse/statesperson Haifa Wehbe (ok, I made up parts of that description, just to irritate) and the Xena: Warrior Princess dark-hair/alabaster-skin aesthetic she can manifest, and which she shares with better example Nancy Ajram, the pendular-beaked former AUB Biophysical Engineering Department-Chair turned-singer (ok, made up some stuff there too). Anyway, jeez louise, the issues we humans can hinge our self-estimation on and make a mystique out of! But I do admit to getting seriously worked up if any blind fool even suggests that TIna Louise's Ginger was hotter than Dawn Wells' Mary Ann.
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November 23, 2009
The Color of Monkey: Egyptians Draw A Bead On Haifa
Guardian (UK) angel Nesrine Malik tells of lyrics by an Egyptian writer, sung by sultry songstress Haifa Wehbe, that refer to a child pining for his "Nubian monkey". The term, supposedly referring to a toy, is apparently tied in with long-standing negative color-race attitudes among lighter-skinned Egyptians and other Arabs towards the swath of swarthy Nubians in Egypt's south, and blacks in general. Nubia's bias guardians have requested some sort of legal sanction against the song. The issue brings to rare local public airing the color biases of much of Middle Eastern society, or in Ms Malik's words, the "endemic culture of racial stereotyping in the region ". It apparently also extends to a standard of beauty that elevates a "light-skinned, catty-eyed and slim-nosed" Lebanese look, though the description of the Haifa Wehbe song as "a mindless children's tune sung by an equally vacant performer" does suggest that the term "catty" is not restricted solely to the field of ocular esthetics. (PS -- Just love those commenters below the article at the Guardian. Sheesh.)
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August 09, 2009
The Real Itchin' in Religion: Not the Text, Stupid
Some insightful, as in "I wish I'd said it" commentary, some days back by blogger "Thoreau" at Unqualified Offerings. Adapted below from a lead post and then some later comment by him, he notes in passing some things of direct relevance to those who look at issues of religion and violence and traditionalism, etc. specifically as regards the largely Muslim Middle East and the alleged Muslim requirement to go forth and jihadify. In sum, the idea that people are driven, or even set their norms, by some robotic response to purported permanent religious injunctions in the sacred writ is non-real world, i.e. not religion as actually practiced by real people anywhere. (And to add to his commentary, I would note that most sincere religious observance/piety/consciousness in people tends to proceed from the poetic part of the individual human character as well as the social and cultural.) His discussion started with the tension alleged between religion and science; see below the break here for fuller quote.
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May 01, 2009
Happy May Day! New Month Post
Happy Real Labor Day, everyone!
Well, I suppose Site News is the most appropriate category for this little announcement...Tom and I are getting hitched, most probably at the beginning of September. I blame Aqoul - it's all about increasing contact and improving communication between people of various faith backgrounds, right?
So what have you all been up to?
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April 24, 2009
Orientalist Art Boom: Will this get Aqoul design a cash bid?
From Saudi Aramcoworld comes this report of how middle easterners learned to stop worrying and finally loved the balm of Orientalist art:
In July 2008, Orientalism brought £21.4 million to Christie's in London, "the highest total ever achieved for this category," says Alexandra McMorrow, director of 19th-century European art for the prestigious auction house. This included world record prices for seven artists; "bidders from North Africa, the Middle East, India, Europe and America competed fiercely," she adds. . . .These shifts are part of a larger, gradual, mostly sympathetic reevaluation that has been taking place over the past few decades of much 19th-century European art.
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August 01, 2008
His Hair Was Perfect: Werewolves of Gaza
(Apologies to the late Mr Zevon.) Turkey's so deeply meaningful war over hatwear nearly overthrew the government, and apparently its recent being sent to its room without supper is causing the AKP to temporarily write off the struggle, um, whole cloth. But those profound Turkish wars of meaning over hatwear give way to Gaza, where the struggle over the true hair of steadfastness has reached crisis proportions. It appears that Hamas is now shaving the moustaches off Fatah activists, in retaliation for the jackbooted debearding of Hamas loyalists by Fatah. An ominous development for a society already beset by settlers wielding sidecurls in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention on Treatment of Follicles. Is history so soon forgotten, or are they just returning to their roots? Is it not time to get more bangs for the buck, and yes, rogaine one's freedom? And didn't Munich teach that even a small moustache needs to be stopped early? Turkey has stopped hair-covering, but hair itself remains appeased. Can anyone not see the civilization at stake in all this? What coiffure-textile combination do you feel best reflects optimal social values? Or is this person the secret key to global harmony?
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July 12, 2008
France, Islam & Integration
As brought up in the open thread, a strange court case coming out Fransa: France rejects Muslim woman over radical practice of Islam, worthy of a moment of reflexion.
The headliner is
France has denied citizenship to a Moroccan woman who wears a burqa on the grounds that her "radical" practice of Islam is incompatible with basic French values such as equality of the sexes.although deeper in the article one may be able to pull out something more fundamental (or perhaps better put, reasonable, than her choice of clothing as the basis of the citizenship denial, notably lack of integration and mastery of French society.
Of no great surprise, the woman did not wear the Saudi style ninja costume in her native Morocco; apparently imposed by her husband in France. Without having further information, one would suspect a family arranged marriage of a country girl to a cousin or contact in France who's gone reactionary in France.
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June 07, 2008
News you can't choose: Items of interest
From our newsroom, discussion of a news clip (and I do mean clip) on FGM support in Egypt.
I think the foreign intelligence hinted at by inside "sources" in latest stories is the other I-word (see other stories from a few years back), and not Iran, as is being assumed.
Humankind's vital war on disliked headgear and neckwear continues as Ataturkville's high court tells girls to take it off, take it all off, since a girl or woman has a right to the integrity of her body (see FGM), except when putting a cloth on her head.
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June 02, 2008
French Court Screws Up Non Virgin Muslim
A case currently making some noise in France is about a court annuling a marriage between a recent Muslim convert and his Muslim born wife, on the basis that she lied about not having had a previous boyfriend.
Most politicians, and many in the media make it sound like it was annuled because the girl was not a virgin and the decision was based on religious considerations (why, Islam of course):
The Conservative UMP party - which is calling on the Justice Minister to overturn the ruling - said the decision was totally unacceptable and was incompatible with France's secular principles.
This is obviously yet another opportunity to capitalize on the Muslim minority's poor image (part of which is self-inflicted like in this case).
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June 01, 2008
Martyr, She Wrote: Zawahari Slammed For Males-Only Al-Qaeda
Hell hath no fury as a wannabe mujahedah scorned, it seems. Ayman al-Zawahari's comments, that al Qaeda cannot accept female fighters, has alot of pro-al Qaeda women's abayas in a wad. Websites are full of anger over his suggestions that they should be stay-at-home moms, merely nurturing, raising and feeding the next generation of pointless mass murderers. (I don't know if Rosie the Riveter or Zenobia or Xena, Warrior Princess would approve either side in that debate.) Via Thoreau at Henley.
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May 02, 2008
Funny, She Doesn't Look Bahraini
Bahrain's possible new ambassador to the US has interesting demographics. Not all that amazing if one is familiar with the region outside of stereotypes and post-1948 tensions. Still the background of the former legislator(-tress?), if legislating is what the Shura Council does, might cause some to be unduly surprised.
MANAMA, Bahrain - The only Jewish woman lawmaker in Bahrain is a candidate to become this Persian Gulf kingdom's ambassador to Washington. . . . Huda Nono, a legislator in the Shura Council, said she was among people being considered for the post and referred further queries to the foreign ministry. . . .If Nono was appointed, Bahrain would be the first Arab country to send a high-level Jewish diplomat to Washington. . . . Nono is the first Jewish woman in the Shura Council, a 40-seat body appointed by the king that also has a Christian among its 11 female legislators. . . . Nono replaced her cousin Ibrahim Nono, who held the Shura Council seat for four years.
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December 27, 2007
Sindhs of the father: Benazir Bhutto dead thread (open)
Benazir Bhutto, ex-Pakistani prime minister, is now an ex-person. Have at the whole set of issues in this open thread, o dear readers. Others of the Aqoul team may post more detailed entries on this most unpleasant passing of the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. (BTW, I don't know who those people are who say 'why do Muslims never go out in the streets venting their anger when al-Qaeda or other extremists* do a terrorist act?') Well, clearly, they sometimes do.
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December 01, 2007
Spank me, I've been a bad girl
Marjorie, an expatriate blogger in Qatar who often tackles social and religious issues, brought my attention to that country's first survey of violence against women. Not only had nearly two-thirds of women polled been beaten, over two in five believed they deserved it.
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November 27, 2007
Hirsi Ali: Ideological Chameleon
First, I curse SP for pointing out this latest interview with the infuriating headline: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: My life under a fatwa. Boys and girls, we've been over this before. A fatwa is not an ummah-wide execution order, it is a ruling issued by an Islamic scholar in response to a specific legal question. I wrote about this distinction almost two years ago, when Wafa Sultan told the New York Times that Dr. Ibrahim al-Khouli had issued a "fatwa" when he called her an atheist during a TV interview.
Listen, you credulous glurge-sucking Western journalists, just because some idiot Ayatollah lobbed one at Rushdie almost two decades ago doesn't make every random statement by a Muslim (scholar or fanatic) a fatwa. Nor is a fatwa binding across the universe (else a lot of Muslim women with plucked eyebrows are going to hell). Of course, the f-word does score a lot of publicity amongst the chattering classes, which is why every faux reformer wants one.
But let's get on to the actual article, shall we?
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November 24, 2007
Not in my name
This short entry to denounce the recent verdict againt a victim of rape in Saudi Arabia. Ibn Kafka also has an excellent post about this (in French).
Saudi Arabia claims that it applies Islamic law. In doing so, this medieval country is tarnishing - again - my identity as an Arab and as a Muslim.
If you are like me, sick and tired of this Tartuffesque regime, let it be known how much you want it to change. Not to the equally retarded bigots, but to their influential friends.
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September 07, 2007
F**kin' Alif, Dude! Arabic School Opens in Brooklyn
The Khalil Gibran International Academy school has opened in New York, part of the public education system. Being a wacko libertarian, I have my reservations even about public schooling as a general concept, but allowing it to be a virtue and necessity, still what advantage is it to have a specialized school devoted to Arabic culture and language for kids in Brooklyn USA? Folks, there does exist a private education option for establishing such things, if felt needed. This has a Euro feel of separateness to it, combined with the related US cult of the Great God Diversity. But I thought we yanks had passed on the "separate but equal" thing in public schools. Naturally, of course, the Daniel Pipes squadrons of haters-of-all-things-even-appearing-Muslimish-and-socially-acceptable made an unbelievably laughably weird xenophobic stink over it (Pipes: "learning Arabic in-and-of-itself promotes an Islamic outlook"). They even got the first chosen principal fired for correctly explaining that intifada in Arabic means a shaking-off, thereby apparently establishing that a school that teaches the Arabic language should most definitely not teach it accurately.
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August 25, 2007
Syria's Consideration: A Realistic Travelogue in A Surprising Place
I must say something nice about the Washington Times, which normally has MENA-related fare along the lines of FoxNews and this type of swill. I saw this story a short time back of a travel-writer's visit to Syria in the dead-wood version, but not online. Now I see it is online. Amazingly, the writer actually seems to have taken note of the place and reported it and experienced what normal travelers there would notice, although one might find it too saccharine for its non-comments on the ubiquitous Leader & Family photos, or the pervasive poverty. Still, entitled sincerely and without guile The Kindness of Syrians, it is well done and refreshingly rooted in relevant reality; excerpts for you link-avoiders below the break. (Elsewhere on deeper questions of wealth and poverty, AbuFares has this to say; more on that at another time. Now back to the W. Times.)
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August 05, 2007
Honor Off Her: Fadlallah Fatwas Honor-Killing Out of {Shia} Islam
The practice of hyperpatriarchal societies of murdering suspect sexually-impure females, known as honor killing, and prevalent in the MENA region, in the ME far more than the NA parts, has been ruled unIslamic by Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah, Lebanon's leading Shiite Muslim figure. (This has appears to me a bit underreported, though to their semi-credit the story is noted by the creepshow bigots at Jihadwatch who then go on to argue that a fatwa against honor killings isn't really a fatwa against honor killings, because well, you know, it, um, well , it, anyway it makes sense to ignorant hate-spewers who claim to "get it" about Muslims, unlike us poor "dhimmis".) The fatwa, as some coverage notes but others in comments report differently, is not replicated much in Sunni circles to date. An analogy may be to southern American Christians who accomodated race-segregation even when some religious were not in favor, out of fear of public prejudice in favor of the practice. In any event, the fatwa's a cool thing, and it did not require the efforts of Irshad Manji. As far as I can tell, no comment by Ayaan Hirsi Ali on this, possibly because it doesn't compute?
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July 19, 2007
The Muslim Sartorialist
Ever heard of the Sartorialist? It's basically a photo blog done by a guy with a keen eye for fashion. He photographs people in trendy European and North American cities and adds little blurbs about why he thinks the outfits are interesting.
Now, I've always taken note of fashionable Muslim girls around me. They are masters of layering, texture and coordination. Whether it's at the mall, a pretentious cafe or even my gym (where one stylish muhajabat routinely schools me on the treadmill), these ladies are not held back by their headscarves. Unfortunately, most of the photos you find on news sites are of women wearing frumpy hijabs, dowdy overcoats and ominous-looking ninja getups (as Lounsbury likes to call them). Western media is inundated with photos of shapeless baby-blue Afghan burkas and Saudi niqabs, so it's hardly surprising that most non-Muslims think this style of dress is ubiquitous.
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July 16, 2007
Next, We'll be Pledging Allegiance To Vishnu
They're taking over. Now it's the Hindus. First the Muslims will force my daughter to wear a burka, which I just learned is a Nazi symbol, now if it weren't for the voices of the intrepid zealots of the gospel heard in this video, soon the guy pictured here would take over, and the Senate cafeteria will have to remove hamburgers from next to the freedom fries. Even scarier, he looks like he might be the Pope (oops, wrong century's xeonphobia).
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July 12, 2007
Tunisia & Women's Rights: Real Developments?
I turn this issue over to a better-informed readership. A Globalist article argues that Tunisia provides a real regional model for a legislative and public policy system that would protect the rights and hopes of women in home and professional life, and do so consistent with religious sentiment and scholarship. "What really sets Tunisia apart from other Arab countries and most majority-Muslim states," Andrea Barron writes, "are its policies on marriage, divorce, child support, abortion, honor crimes and domestic violence. After all, what does it matter if a woman can attend university, own her own business and run for political office if she cannot choose her own husband and be free from violence perpetrated by her own family members?" So, are the benefits in Tunisian women's legal rights genuinely real; if so, have they been a cause or the effect of social changes? And where does the, ahem, not quite freedom-loving/democratic nature of the Ben Ali government fit in to all this, if at all?
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June 24, 2007
Foregoing their Commission? Saudi Virtue/Vice Cops on Trial
D'apres this Washington Post story, it seems that the Saudi Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the morality cops, are on trial. Some of Saudi's finest face charges for brutality, including killing, of suspects detained for, I don't know, flirting, willful shimmying, being within six meters of unbearded non-familial genitals, or whatever it is they arrest folks for. But whatever may be the foibles and popularity of enforcement of extremely conservative mores, there does seem to be a popular line in the sand (MENA stereotype imagery, sorry) being drawn against arbitrariness and in favor of due process. Procedural due process is a good thing in itself. {Note to the over-self-righteous: Of course, (adopting superior cultural tone here), we never have such things here as "vice squads", general alcohol bans, or police killing old ladies in places where consenting informed adults are merely alleged to be consuming or distributing a vice-inducing product.}
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June 18, 2007
Ayaan Anti-Hirsute Ali: Son of Deuteronomy of Gath
Monty Python's Life of Brian meets real life as this woman gets to speak in public as if she knows what she is talking about. Saracen-slayer Ayaan Hirsi Ali was speaking at the National Press Club and I accidentally heard it on the radio. At first I didn't know who it was until a stream of simple-minded inanities about Islam versus the West narrowed it down fast. No transcript available, only memory, but I had to belly-laugh and nearly spew as she explained Islam's rigidly came from the fact that it takes its Scriptures as literal and divinely authored unlike, um, Christianity. In the Christian Scriptures, she explained, the books are not fixed as being written by God, but are said to be written "by people . . . like Paul . . . and Deuteronomy." (That's exactly what I heard, folks.) What an expert guide for us on religion and progress! O, why did I have to be a Monty Python fan?
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April 04, 2007
On Citizenship and Marriage
As the number of foreigners living in the Gulf has increased, so have the number of marriages between Gulf citizens and expatriates. Foreign women who marry Gulf citizens have relatively little legal trouble in these patriarchal societies. But women from the Gulf who marry foreigners find that their husbands cannot acquire their nationality, and that their children are not citizens in the countries where they have been born and raised.
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February 18, 2007
Eunuchs & Islam, or Andrew Sullivan's Gullibility
Possibly alone among my fellow authors, I have a soft-spot for the moderately incoherent Andrew Sullivan, despite his fundamental gullibility and superficiality so common to editorialists, illiteracy in science and economics, and tendency to dip into the well of accidental bigotry with respect to race and non-Western things. His general philosophy is close enough to my own that I generally read around the inanities.
Today, in amusing myself reading the blog I stumbled across this in which in typical editorialist fashion he regurgitates some utterly idiotic bigotry from a reader, without bothering to fact check, who claimed:
The Koranic reference to "slaves not attracted to women" is not meant to be interpreted as gay people, but rather to eunuchs. Just another traditional practice from the folks who brought us 9/11.
Charming. Even more charming that he quotes it as a "correction" to his almost as rubbish-quality "reflecting" on Arab sexuality and women.
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January 23, 2007
Female Saudi student vs. FrontPageMag jihadist
I would've never thought that I'd ever call my readers' attention toward a piece in FrontPageMag, but hey, if The Eagles can make hell freeze over ...
The interview is from Feb '06 but I don't think it has lost any value. I found it particularly interesting how Moudhy al-Rashid did not let herself be baited by the interviewer's harping on the usual tropes. Certainly her own positions are worthy of debate and she herself stated that she doesn't see them as finalized, but she is certainly representative of a broader group of young women in KSA (and other MENA countries).
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December 27, 2006
You Can't Be Syria's? Ambassador Blogging
The envoy to USA from Syria apparenlty maintains a personal blog. I'll leave it to our distinguished readership to assess the value or lack thereof, and the deeper sociopolitical meaning. In the meantime, I kind of enjoyed his linking to this survey by Sami Moubayed of Syrian women's rights activities (which, I would note, apparently did indeed exist before the Levantine Boadicea of You Tube, Wafa Sultan, so bravely invented them from -- where was it? -- California, circa 2005.)
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December 19, 2006
Another Woman Put In Her Place in Saudi Arabia?
Oh, wait, sorry. It's not Saudi Arabia. Culture shock for an American female visitor:
A woman...reported a vicious attack by an ad-hoc "modesty patrol" on a...bus last month...[She says] she was slapped, kicked, punched and pushed by a group of men who demanded that she sit in the back of the bus with the other women...She rode the bus daily to...pray at sunrise...Women usually sit in the back, while men sit in the front, as a matter of custom.
Where's Rosa Parks when you need her?
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October 26, 2006
Sheikh Hilali, Imported Imams and the Cultural Divide
Since I'm sick and daytime television is unbearable, thought I might write a bit about the emerging controversy around Sheikh Hilali, an Australian imam who recently made some rather provocative observations about women during a speech on marital relations and adultery.
The story is splattered across the front page of The Australian, which offers an mp3 version of the speech, along with an edited English transcript (which I'm sure only captures the boring parts).
Currently, the primary media hook seems to be that Hilali compared unveiled women to meat that gets snatched up by cats because it is left outside, uncovered. This is clearly drawn from the one-page English transcript noted above, which contains little substance save for the frankly bizarre and crude remarks about cats, meat and fridges (and some gratuitous mudslinging at People of the Book).
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June 21, 2006
Anger as Analysis: Part III
[Editor's Note: A warm welcome to Shaheen, our newest contributor]
I don't want to beat a dead horse, but I thought it would be interesting to have a French/Maghrebi take on our series of articles about media-savvy Muslim women hailed as reformers by Western media. France's Muslim reformist hero is Fadela Amara, a French feminist of North African descent.
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June 18, 2006
Somalia: Islamic Courts & Women's Progress
A quick note on a interesting arty in The Washington Post on the role of women in backing The Islamic Courts movement that seems to be well on its way to taking power in Somalia and displacing the "secular" warlords.
If there is one item that most at once irritates and amuses me about Western and American commentary specifically is the weird gullibility in the usage of "secular" versus "Islamist" - although in a sense it is relavatory of why secularism has or is failing in the MENA region and many parts of the Islamic world - where "secular" seems to mean "any corrupt bunch of idiots presently in power who are not overtly and ostentatiously 'Islamist' in political orientation."
If this is the "secularism" being offered, and indeed backed by the West and America specifically, does anyone think it should be suprising that, whatever bitter individuals like Hirsi Ali Magaan say for the consumption of the fearful Westerner, secularism is losing ground?
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June 14, 2006
Using MySpace.com, a young Jericho, West Bank gentleman managed to win the affections of an American girl, aged 16, and invite her over to be married. But before the young lady finished her unapproved journey to Israel-slash-Palestine-slash-Holy Land-slash-West Bank-slash-Judea&Samaria, she was intercepted by US authorities in Amman, Jordan, and returned to sender. Her parents had stopped her. Now, the story of this Internet romance suggests, in a bit uncommon form with the unusual youth of this girl, a too-prevalent reality among intercultural adults in a similar situation where the active ingredient, at least for one, is sadly not an Arabian Nights romance, but an all-too-common hidden-agenda romance of a certain piece of non-erotic laminated paper.
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June 06, 2006
Corner on Niqab: Saudi Women Face Off on Veiling
(The title pun was nearly "Sartorial Spleen Tour", so don't complain) Faiza Ambah, a few days back in the Washington Post, provided a profile of Saudi women, including professionals, who are emphatic in their preference for the unusually high restrictiveness -- even by conservative Muslim standards -- in the dress code mandated in their country.
UPDATE (6/10): Jennifer on Henley's blog has some related thoughts ("Modest Invisibility") on an overlapping subject, inspired by devout Egyptian woman Magda Amer's explanations of women's clothing choice and standards.
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June 05, 2006
Anger as Analysis: Part II
Moorishgirl's recent article in The Nation and a followup comment by our man Whitaker have compelled me to revisit the issue of telegenic female Islam critics and continue our Anger as Analysis series. My first installment focused on Irshad Manji and her inability to examine Islam objectively due to negative childhood experiences in her minority Twelver community (Uganda and Canada). Part II is a reflection on Ayaan Hirsi Ali and her controversial approach to critiquing Islam and its adherents.
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May 23, 2006
Anger as Analysis: Part I
Irshad Manji, Wafa Sultan and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Why am I always picking on them?
Ostensibly, we have much in common. We are women born into faiths and cultures where gender inequality is widespread and can manifest itself in terrible ways. If anything, I should be able to relate to women who distance themselves from normative Islam (or renounce it altogether) and maintain a deep appreciation for the individualism, plurality and relative freedom found in Western societies.
Instead, I am appalled at how casually they draw conclusions about an entire religion based on narrow personal experience and the substitution of angry rhetoric for serious examination.
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May 17, 2006
Ayaan and Lessons on the Blog Whankosphere
Some sad lessons pop up once in a while in "blogging" (I do hate the term), among the the written confirmation of the facile idiocy that passes for commentary online, above all "far away" things. The utterly idiotic, wrong-headed ignorant whanking about the supposedly "Islamic immigrant" "intefada" that popped up during the French minority riots last year. This largely among American commentators with fuck all of an any information about France, the socio-religious profile of "immigrants" (3rd generation French born 'immigrants') hysterically shrieking on about an Islamic radical 'intefada' (hello Andrew Sullivan et al -none of whom by the way ever corrected or retracted their... well distortions and outright lies).
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May 04, 2006
Banking Services in KSA: A Rant - Part II
[See Women's Banking Services in KSA: A Rant - Part I]
I walked out, made my way round the corner and through the glass automatic doors of the men's banking halls upon which about one hundred employees, customers and floor staff looked up and fell silent.
At this early stage I should mention that the banking sector in Saudi Arabia has been subjected to the most comprehensive Saudisation process where only a few employees, and those only in the higher more strategic echelons, are non-Saudi. Since I had walked into a run of the mill retail branch, every single man who was looking at me was Saudi and in full white thobe and head dress, a daunting sight for any female.
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February 25, 2006
Customary Marriage and Paternity Testing Laws in Egypt
A recent landmark case regarding paternity testing in Egypt has brought the issue of customary marriage and the backwardness of Egyptian paternity legislation into the spotlight.
The reason the case caught the attention of so many is that it involved the young son of a famous Egyptian acting couple. Sumia al-Ulfi and Farouq el-Fishawi are now estranged but their son Ahmed upon reaching his early twenties was propelled into the limelight due to his parentage and good looks. The twist that made the case even more explosive is the fact that Ahmed, just as his acting career was taking off, rejected his Westernised background and career and instead embraced the principles of Islam, becoming the poster boy for the Amr Khaled (popular noveau trendy preacher) generation and the campaign to call Muslim youth back to their roots.
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January 25, 2006
Maghreb & Islamic Liberalism: Superficialities & Hope for a Liberalising State, Islamic Feminism, etc
Returning to commentary, although forewarning this is post chemo and may lack a certain clarity:
Via Daniel Drezner's post on That's some interesting Islam in Morocco, I found this article from Der Spiegel on Morocco - one of my favourite countries in the MENA region - discussing Mohammed VI's efforts to modernise the socio-political culture:
The Quiet Revolution: Morocco's King Aims To Build a Modern Islamic Democracy
by Helene Zuber.
Compare, by the way, to this article from almost six years ago:
New Hope, Old Frustrations - Morocco: the point of change
by the ever Left Ramonet.
An interesting, but rather flawed article I would say.
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January 03, 2006
Saudi Arabia, Lesbianism and Other Coping Mechan-'isms'
As my own season of migration to the land of Saud approaches and the prospect of interacting with several overeducated, intelligent and caged women looms, the inevitable concern of culture shock all over again rears its ugly head. In a recent conversation with a Professor of English literature teaching at King Saud University, I was told that she overheard the head of department and her members of staff (all advanced literature degree holders from reputable Western universities) bragging about how they would not recognise male members of family and male in-laws in the street. The conversation ran along the lines of, 'I have thirteen male cousins and other than in pictures, I have not seen them in real life, moreover, because they have never seen me, even in pictures, they wouldn't recognise me if I bumped right into them shopping without my veil'. 'Oh that's nothing, my sister has been married for twenty years and her husband believes that pictures are haraam and so I have NEVER seen him.' This exchange was then followed by pats on the back and self congratulation. The system has worked. How proud they were of their ability to fuse education and moral, social integrity!
And off they trotted to teach other females about John Donne, TS Eliot and Jane Austen.
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December 23, 2005
As a side reference: Bin Laden Niece as a Leb Pop Tart
It may not be approp for 'Aqoul at the moment, so I refer you here to my somewhat sordid commentary.
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December 07, 2005
Hymen Reconstruction, Circumcision and Sexual Promiscuity
The hymen reconstruction industry in North Africa has flourished recently. Following a fatwa dispatched a few years ago by Al Azhar in Egypt that reconstructions were allowed in the case of rape, the recent developments in surgery and the rise in pre-marital sexual activity, females of marriage age have sought the quick fix in order to keep their reputations (and necks) intact.
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October 01, 2005
Irshad Manji Left Guilt and Likoudnik Agitprop
Although this is an immensely tardy comment, I must thank eerie for the reference to The Globe & Mail letter from Tarek Fateh, which drew my attention to Irshad Manj's odd statement or claim regarding Muslim guilt in regards to the Holocaust. I confess I know Irshad (a fine name I may add) only by the few articles on her book & her articles and interviews. Rather simply, her book isn't available to me in this non-anglo environment.
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September 28, 2005
Sexy Arab Abaya Women, Assumptions: US Public Diplomacy in KSA
Returning to a subject more or less dear to 'Aqoul, women in the Arab world, for a moment, I wanted to draw attention to this intriguing article from the visit by US public diplomacy director Karen Hughes to Saudi Arabia: Saudi Women Have Message for U.S. Envoy
Let me first say little in the article was surprising to me (including Ms. Hughes surprise that the "Sisters" did not look at their cultural heritage and mores in the same light as she expected), but it is a useful one for reflexion. Thus some comments on the article:
Update: The Financial Times also has this story. Better done actually.
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September 23, 2005
"Honor" in the West Bank
I was emailed this from Marthame & Elizabeth Sanders of SaltFilms.net, about a "honor"-related piece of mob violence in the village of Taybeh in the West Bank. I'm going to quote shamelessly:
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September 21, 2005
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The small town of Taybeh, located a few miles outside of Ramallah, was recently attacked by a mob from the neighboring town of Deir Jarir. The report below is based on news accounts and conversations we have had with friends in Taybeh, eyewitnesses to the event in question.
For ten years, a Muslim woman named Hiyam from the village of Deir Jarir had been working at a sewing shop in Taybeh owned by a Christian man named Mahadi Khourieh. Thirty-two years old, unmarried and pregnant, Hiyam was found dead from poison on Wednesday, August 31, 2005. According to her family, she committed suicide rather than bring the shame of a child out of wedlock on her family. It is likely, however, that her family forced her to take her own life. The family accused Mahadi Khourieh of being the father, a charge he denied.
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Will Fulla and Barbie Ever Have Tea Together?
I've just had a grueling few weeks attending back-to-back conferences and dealing with other work-related idiocy. As a result, I've fallen behind on 'Aqoul correspondence, but I would like to thank everyone for their emails. Will be catching up slowly over the next few days, but in the meantime a tidbit from the New York Times (evaluna posted the link earlier today):
Best Seller in Mideast: Barbie with a Prayer Mat
Young girls here are obsessed with Fulla, and conservative parents who would not dream of buying Barbies for their daughters seem happy to pay for a modest doll who has her own tiny prayer rug, in pink felt. Children who want to dress like their dolls can buy a matching, girl-size prayer rug and cotton scarf set, all in pink...
"This isn't just about putting the hijab on a Barbie doll," Mr. Abidin said. "You have to create a character that parents and children will want to relate to. Our advertising is full of positive messages about Fulla's character. She's honest, loving, and caring, and she respects her father and mother."
Though Fulla will never have a boyfriend doll like Barbie's Ken, Mr. Abidin said, a Doctor Fulla and a Teacher Fulla will be introduced soon. "These are two respected careers for women that we would like to encourage small girls to follow," he said.
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September 22, 2005
What's a Nice Muslim Girl to Do?
My hippie feminist Mom never let me have a Barbie; she believed they promoted overly traditional gender roles for girls. (Not that I wanted one - I was more a Lego girl).
But I can't help but wonder what she'd think of Fulla, the doll with Muslim values?
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September 13, 2005
Two Jews, Three Opinions: Marriage Law in Israel
Sometimes with all the infighting between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East, not to mention among various flavors of Muslims and/or Christians, many people forget that the Jews aren't exactly one big, happy family. In fact, the Israeli Jewish community can be one big, unhappy, dysfunctional family in one very basic regard...the legal right to get married in a ceremony that reflects one's chosen level of religious observance, not to mention one's beliefs regarding gender equality: Unorthodox Weddings Dividing Israelis
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August 29, 2005
Hijab Fashion, Getting Noticed in Your Slinky Little ....
In keeping with purient interests, as well as our commitment to rooting about the dark corners of the MENA world and its cultural off-shoots, I draw your attention to this amusing little article in The Washington Post entitled
While the arty actually deals with surburbanite sub-Con muslim girls in the Washington DC area, the actual issues therein are very familiar to the MENA region proper.
There is also a helpful little slide show to introduce you to Hijab sexy chic. Actually one of our young subjects is quite fetching in the scarfy hijab she chose. Fashion accessories...
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August 11, 2005
Emory Law School: Islamic Family Law Resource
Currently reading Women's Rights & Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform, based on a series of studies conducted by Emory Law School.
The book presents case studies of Muslim societies in Egypt, the West Bank & Gaza and the United States. It also includes a general survey of domestic violence in the Middle East. This study is particularly interesting to me because it attempts to describe the interaction between shari'a, social attitudes and state law in the region. I may write something about it later, but for now I offer this useful link to Emory's Islamic Family Law website.
Note that the data is current as of 2002 and may not include more recent legal reforms/reviews in countries like Morocco (I'm smirking at you, Lounsbury).
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August 09, 2005
Fatima Mernissi: The Veil and the Male Elite
Lately I've been reading a lot about women, personal status law and gender inequality in MENA. While it is a common knee-jerk reaction to blame Islam for oppressing women in the region, one need only look non-Muslim communities in and around the Middle East to see that similar practices often cut across religions. Mistreatment and neglect of women and female children is perpetrated by Muslims, Christians, Hindus and others, justified to varying degrees by calls to religion, local custom or ancient tradition.
Having said that, it's also quite common to see people claiming that Islam elevated the status of women, when compared to the jahiliyya (pre-Islamic period) in Arabia. This appears to be true (although it remains controversial to what degree), but these same writers generally fail to mention that both the Qur'an and the Hadith contain passages stating quite clearly that women are not equal to men in some rather important respects. For me, the inequality is exemplified by a verse in Sura 4 (here are two translations):
Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because God has given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband's) absence what God would have them guard. As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (next) refuse to share their beds (and last) beat them (lightly); but if they return to obedience, seek not against them means (of annoyance): for God is Most High, Great (above you all). – 4:34 (trans. A. Yusuf Ali)
Men are in charge of women, because Allah has made some of them excel the others, and because they spend some of their wealth. Hence righteous women are obedient, guarding the unseen which Allah has guarded. And those of them that you fear might rebel, admonish them and abandon them in their beds and beat them. Should they obey you, do not seek a way of harming them, for Allah is Sublime and Great! - 4:34 (trans. Majid Fakhry)
Guardianship, obedience and the "appropriate" interpretation of this verse have been widely debated by religious scholars. Based on the full title of Moroccan feminist writer Fatima Mernissi's work, The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam, I expected a discussion of Qur'anic verses that suggested both equality and inequality in terms of gender. Of course, I had already been disappointed by Mernissi's meandering style in Islam and Democracy, so it was not particularly surprising to discover the same unfocused, overly-poetic writing here. My guess is that this work is not a rigorous sociological study as much as it is a description of her personal journey, with a bit of history thrown in for interest.
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August 01, 2005
Sex and Citizenship: Morocco, Jordan, Foreigners Boinking and Children's citizenship
Our industrious friend Abu Aardvark(s) (known affectionately in our Maghrebine parlance now, in honour of the second Aardvark as Bou Aradvrak) had some interesting comments on Morocco's newly announced move, via the Moroccan King's Throne speech this weekend, to change Moroccan law to grant citizenship to the children of foreigners and Moroccan women. This will end, when eventually enacted, decades of paterfamilias centered citizenship policy.
Bou Aradvrak indicated he hoped this would have a positive effect on the Jordanian dynamic where similar liberalisation has been stalled:
Progress for Arab Women & Children as his blog arty is entitled.
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MANNINGTOWN TWP. — Due to the forecasts of inclement weather for Tuesday night through Wednesday, the Salem County Vocational Technical School (SCVTS) has decided to reschedule the Annual Open House event. The Open House will now take place next Wednesday, Feb. 17, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The annual Open House provides an opportunity for prospective students and... Full story »
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February 08, 2010, 2:19PM
BRIDGETON * David P. Barrickman, 19, of Upper Deerfield Township, turned himself in to police Sunday afternoon on a Vineland failure to appear warrant. He was released after he posted the required amount of $501 bail. * Walter M. Williams Sr., 42, of Giles Street, was arrested early Saturday on the charge of simple assault. He was released on... Full story »
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February 08, 2010, 1:52PM
Students from five Gloucester County high schools will participate in the Gloucester County Consumer Bowl competition on Tuesday, Feb. 9. Students representing Gateway Regional High School, Glassboro High School, Gloucester County Institute of Technology, West Deptford High School and Woodbury Junior/Senior High School will be participating in the county competition. The competition will be held at RiverWinds Community Center,... Full story »
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February 08, 2010, 1:29PM
TRENTON — Legislation that would to make it illegal to mail unsolicited checks that, once cashed, enroll consumers in fee-based programs cleared the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee on Monday. Committee chair, Assemblyman Paul Moriarty of Washington Township drafted the bill after a constituent showed him an unsolicited $8.25 check they received from a company. Cashing the check would enroll the... Full story »
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February 08, 2010, 1:00PM
WOODBURY — A two-car crash at Barber Avenue and South Broad Street around 12:30 p.m. Monday slowed motorists during the heightened lunchtime travel period. Details on the accident are limited, but it appears an Oldsmobile attempting to make a left onto Barber Avenue collided with a Toyota Camry headed southbound on Route 45. The accident proved to be a... Full story »
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February 08, 2010, 11:00AM
TRENTON — Legislation that would impose stricter restrictions on the materials contained in jewelry cleared the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee on Monday. The bill — whose sponsors include Assemblyman Paul Moriarty, D-Washington Township — comes after 55,000 "Princess and the Frog" necklaces were recalled because they may contain high levels of the toxic heavy metal cadmium. When ingested by children,... Full story »
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February 08, 2010, 7:55AM
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE -- Some 40,000 electric customers on the New Jersey coast remain without power today, two days after a blizzard dumped up to 2 feet of dense snow on the area. Atlantic City Electric spokeswoman Sandra May said that as of 6:30 a.m. , about 39,400 customers in Cape May County were without power. A few... Full story »
Two Gloucester Township boys are robbed of snow-shoveling money, police say
February 08, 2010, 6:11AM
GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP -- Police are searching for a man who they said robbed two young men of the money they earned shoveling snow, according to a report in The Courier-Post. The report said two 15 year olds were returning home in the Glendora section after shoveling neighborhood driveways. Police said the suspect they are searching for is between 17 and... Full story »
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Cumberland County SPCA Pick of the Litter
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VINELAND - This week's Pick of the Litter is Tera. Tera is a cute, 11-month-old mixed breed pup. She is an active little girl that still has loads of puppy in her. Tera is fun and friendly and was crate-trained by her previous owners. She will need basic doggy obedience training, but is good-natured, smart and eager to learn.... Full story »
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@Just because, btty- Hmm. How do you figure she hasn't helped herself? I think her sobriety is a testament to her goal of recovery. And as a clinical therapist who works with addiction myself, I suggest you do some research in this field. Many people in recovery go on to become certified alcohol and drug counselors. Also, with knowledge comes wisdom. Would you rather speak with someone who has a history of addiction or some 26-year old know it all? I've worked with both, and often times the individual with a CDAC trumps many clinical psychologists.
Mackenzie, GOOD JOB. I know you have endured a great deal of trauma in your life and I commend you and your big heart for reaching out to those who still suffer and for gaining insight into your own struggles!
It's really quite simple: "unless you have walked a mile in her shoes" you have no right to be judgmental!
Turning her life around and filming it for a reality show? This woman should NEVER be near a drug addict because her track record is bad, bad, and bad. She's been in rehab half her life and relapses every couple years. Getting sober to make a reality show just doesn't hack it. She's just looking for money to support her habit again. Money for drugs again. Don't believe her.
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Five years before Ryan Dunn was killed in a violent car crash, Bam Margera predicted the "Jackass" star's death in eerily specific detail -- claiming, "He's gonna eat it one of these times [in a car accident]."
Bam -- along with several cast members from his MTV show "Viva La Bam" -- made the grim prediction while recording the DVD commentary for Season 5 back in 2006.
According to the commentary, Dunn was involved in SEVERAL car accidents over the years -- but Bam's mom claimed, "He'll never learn his lesson."
Another "Bam" cast member added, "I have [Ryan] in the death pool ... for death by vehicle."
In this specific episode, Ryan races Bam's Lamborghini in a limousine -- and after Ryan loses, Bam claims, "[the limo] blew up just like every other f**king car he has."
It sounds like two people trying to impersonate April and Bam...I'm sorry but I don't think this is real. I don't doubt they may have "predicted" it years ago, but this recording sounds bogus. RIP Dunn.
Not trying to be mean or insensitive as I myself loved Dunn so much but the reality of things is that this is what all these guys are known for. They are known for being wreckless and without any regard for the outcome of their actions. It hurts me yet bothers me to see Bam so distraught but he does the same. The outcome of their actions should not be a surpriseThese guys get hammered and simply dont care. I dont even think they care for themselves enough to think that there is a possibility of death for either themselves or others. May God have Dunns soul and his passenger's and may all involved have the strength to accept what has taken place. My sympathy for the other guy and his family too...all the talk is about Dunn yet not much about the other life that was also lost. Sad situation for all...may we all learn that life is too precious to not appoint a designated driver.
I agree let it go.... this is a time for the family to grieve not the world to tear them apart. Enough is enough, if anyone of us 'normal' people had had the same accident you wouldn't see all of this at all... it sucks, it hurts and I'mnot saying it's right but they were mature adults who BOTH made the decision to do what they were doing and they paid the ultimate sacrifice for it. no going back no redo button. It's over for them, let them families move through this now. I mean if this were your child that had made this mistake are you honestly telling me that you would walk up to YOUR child and say get lost stupid you're a complete JACKASS and deserve to die too? I don't want nothing to do with you what a rotten person you are. ARe you honestly saying you would do that to your child if it happened. Wow, great human you are. Glad I don't know you and I seriously for sorry for your kids and family. no compassion at all huh? Glad you've never made a mistake in your life.
The idiots calling Dunn a murderer, he did not have premeditation to kill his friend, so STFU.
Another "Bam" cast member added, "I have [Ryan] in the death pool ... for death by vehicle." And we have a winner.
he was a jackass and and an alcoholic -and drunk as **** when he drove that thing. serves him right.
People crack me up! He was 29 years old at the time of this video! He was a grown man! You're telling me his friends could take his cars away from him? How are they going to step in? I dont understand how you people are blaming the friends? How do you know they did not try? Can*****ch him 24/7! Bam was in Arizona at the time of death! His other friends were drinking with him. When my friends go out we have a driver or get a cab, but not saying we have not had one who left early saying he could drive and should not have been. They sneak off! Can*****ch there every move! Dont blame the friends! Dunn was an adult! Just because they were talking about him dying in a car does not mean they meant it. People do joke around from time to time. Especially this group! Anyone enjoying the death of Ryan Dunn, there is a special place in hell for you.
christy 12 hours ago
Stop calling the passenger a victim. He is not. He went with him willingly and I assume was just as drunk. He is not a victim he is a partner in crime. If he wasnt drunk like him then why let him drive or get in with him. No they were having fun and joy riding together. I feel bad for both families but he is not a victim.
The court won't see it that way and Hartwell's inebriation is completely irrelevant. Hartwell was indeed Dunn's victim, as Dunn owed him a duty of care as Hartwell was his passenger. Instead of delivering him home safely, as his offer of a lift implied he would, Dunn killed him instead. I advise Hartwell's family to lawyer up so they can launch a wrongful death suit against Dunn's estate.
@irishcurls, you told me where to find it and it isn't there. Now you tell me a different place to find it and want me to pay to prove your claim. Sorry little cailín, you make the claim, you provide the proof.
@mm1 i arrived at the conclusion that u worked for tmz when u answered a ? that i asked to tmz about the deer. I didnt know I asked mm1 a question pretty sure i posted it to tmz not u. please dont tell me what i was or was not doing on my own computer with my own words. Since i was talking about all men and u read it one way that is ur problem. noone else has a prob with what i said but u so it is app. only ur prob. live with it.
His own mother saying "yeah hes a vehicle guy" hes gonna die by a car accident. Nice. Jb hit the nail on the head:
"jb 14 hours ago
douche bag loser shouldn't be so upset then...yeah i said it....creep got behind the wheel time and again and didn't give an eff about anyone of us...f him and his loser friends who defend his lame arse! pick on a dude ate up with cancer-roger ebert for calling it as it was..try that w/ me bam bam and i'll bam your damn head off-douche bags!!"
I dont condone the drinking and driving, but its not like he was speeding at a busy time of the day. I have always said there is a time and a place for people to take there fast cars out and open it up if they feel the need for speed. Now being drunk and having someone with him was wrong, but his buddy got in the car on his own. We dont know the other times when he was driving wreckless if he was out and about away from others. People are so quick to judge. I know a real jackass who drives home every day and goes 120 mph in and out of traffic on his way home from work. He lost his best friend in an wreck and he was with him. It dont stop him from being a dumbass! He will die some day and probably kill some innocent family. Now that pisses me off. How he gets away with it day after day on a freeway I dont know. Dunn was out when nobody else was on this instant. Thank God!
it is obviously a big mistake that he was drving drunk and as fast he did but for all of you haters out there death should not be wished on anyone or even joked about shame on all of you people rip ryan dunn you will be missed no matter what
I think its pretty f*cked up how TMZ put this up here . Bam and his mom are still in the greving process , and this will probably upset them more .. SMH!


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I have 4 plants that are about 5 months old and just started flowering late August.
Out temperatures last week and all of this week are getting colder and colder going from 67-high . 40-low
Plants are 3 weeks into flowering as of right now.
And are master kush strain.
i had a couple questions.
- Will a Plant survive freezing temperatures (for how long) ?
- Will growing a plant outdoors for a long period of time help it get used to its natural surroundings and finish on time as the winter months come ?
any other useful information that might be able help me harvest and proclaim my prize that i have been tending to and loving for all this time, i would appreciate it.
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no a plant will not survive below freezing. when the water inside the cells vacuoles freezes it destroys the plants structural integrity, this is why they wilt and turn black. however they will survive all the way down to just about freezing, just with a very slowed growth rate.
I'm like a stepping razor, Don't you watch my size, I'm dangerous. http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...-frontier.html
alright dude they should be fine up to your first frost. like the feller said above they will just slow down abit but will be fill till then. whens your first frost in ur area?
My first and current grow http://www.rollitup.org/blogs/blog76...-outdoors.html
Ya dude, no worries, Cold brings out nice colors, amsterdam grows outdoors and they have seriously cold falls. if its a sativa it will be slowed more so than an indica. I keep my indoor room like 65-70day and 45-50 night. so your outdoor temps are nice. sorry for the late reply, just popped up on related posts.
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im in northern canada and my babes survived 4-5 frosts up to now and showing minimal rot, it all depends on the strain and how accute the frost is
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i had a few light frosts with no issues
Really depends on the strain. A good number of plants can handle light frosts. I just took down some that i had to shake snow off of. A few brown fans but the buds were still good to go.
your plant will be able to take the cold.. indicas do better then sativas in general... but a big ass sativa plant will take some forst has well... has long has the temps warm up in the day wich they usually do you will be fine.... you wanna worry more when your night temps rech 28 or below... thats when the real damage starys... 32 degrese may only hurt some of your leaves a little.. if even that... but a few degrease colder and shit can get real bad... bring them in at night if ya can, or cover them with plastic during the night... even a layer of mulch under the plant and around the main stalk will help insulate it from the cold
They should be fine just dont let them fall below the Spunkin Line for too long......
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Genre/Form: | Conference proceedings Congresses |
Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mechanisms of virus disease. Menlo Park, Calif. : W.A. Benjamin, c1974 (OCoLC)599002313 |
Material Type: | Conference publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William S Robinson; C Fred Fox; ICN Pharmaceuticals, inc.; University of California, Los Angeles. Molecular Biology Institute. |
OCLC Number: | 3255911 |
Notes: | "The final conference of the 1974 winter symposia on topics in molecular and cellular biology sponsored by ICN Pharmaceuticals, inc. and organized through the Molecular Biology Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles." |
Description: | viii, 544 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Series Title: | ICN-UCLA symposia on molecular and cellular biology, v. 1. |
Responsibility: | edited by William S. Robinson, C. Fred Fox. |
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