"Inexpensive Iraqi prostitutes have helped to make Syria a popular destination for sex tourists from wealthier countries in the Middle East. In the club’s parking lot, nearly half of the cars had Saudi license plates."
So one way to think about it is that these young women, who fled their destroyed country and are selling their bodies to rich Arab buyers, are doing a favor to the Arab nation: helping the economy of one honorable republic and servicing the men of other honorable countries. I'd think that makes them the most honorable women in our honorable Arab nation.
Please remember these women next time you hear someone frothing at the mouth about the "rape" of Iraq or the "rape" of Palestine or hear an eloquent poet lamenting how his city has become a whore. Because countries, my friends, don't get raped and cities are not whores.
Women do and are.
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You are right Amal, rape does not happen metaphorically. And rape does happen in the Arab world.
One point I want to make:
Look at what the segregation and antagonism of men and women causes in Saudi society; Saudi men seeking sex no matter if it means raping and buying war victims.
Hi Rula,
Segregation and hypocrisy and double standards seem to go hand in hand.
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