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Monday, October 23, 2006

Talking "Muslim Sex"

"According to Google Trends, the Pakistanis search for "sex" most often, followed by the Egyptians. Iran and Morocco are in fourth and fifth, Indonesia is in seventh and Saudi Arabia in eighth place. The top city for "sex" searches is Cairo. When the terms "boy sex" or "man boy sex" are entered (many Internet filters catch the word "gay"), Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are the first four countries listed."

Spiegel ran another story about "Muslim sexuality." The fascination with this topic will never wear off. What do you learn from such stories? Well, in the dominant discourse about Muslim sexuality circulating in the West, the lesson is that those Muslims are repressed sexually and therefore ....(fill in the blank: terrorists, unhappy, hypocritical, latent homosexuals, whatever). They are just not like us.

It's no surprise that "Nedjma," the retarded author of The Almond, is quoted liberally as an authority on Muslim sexuality. For those who haven't heard of her, she wrote a pornographic anonymous novel that is so badly written and imagined that it boggles my mind somebody published it ( I mean how many porn novels can you buy at Borders? Well, if they are about Muslim women, then they are "knowledge"). Has this book been written about Latin American sexuality or French sexuality it would have been considered trash (even as porn it is trash).

But, hey, what do I know. I'm just another Muslim prude.

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