Surreal reading of the day.......

[FormerOstrich]

Yesterday morning I read about the conservative cruise.....this morning I read this "blog" and the comments. I thought the authors angle was a little bazaar. Until I got to the comments. :wtf: There are so many of them where I can only sit in bewilderment and wonder :wtf:

IRAQI WOMEN IN 2007 – NO SEX, TOO MUCH FOOD

.... from the blog

Unable to stray too far, I started by chatting with some of the Iraqi women in the compound where our hotel is located. On another occasion, when it was just too dangerous for me as a Westerner to venture out, I asked our female translator, Rose, to do some of the leg work for me. I also persuaded her to make some pretty embarrassing phone calls.

What I found, while perhaps not exactly the in-depth take on female society I’d hoped for, offers a small taste of the everyday lives of some Iraqi women. The headline, should you choose to stop reading now, is no sex, too much food and no future.

......

"I miss everything we used to have in the old days ," Shams said. "The going out to restaurants or hanging out with friends eating ice cream till 3 a.m. These days, with the curfew, I have to be home by 7 p.m. max."

..... from the comment section

When will the muslim world realize that their own religion is at the core of their own sorrows! That their religion causes the eventual infighting, hatred, extremism and the downright absurdness of their life. I know that this statement will be met with the "obligatory" defiant responses of the "truly devout", where (according to the Koran) you must register your opposition to anything wrong said about your religion, even when your gut tells you how wrong it is and where we all know you truely do not believe in this, or conversely if you will: we all know how you would wish that your religion would be otherwise.

Here is the link.........

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/18/275611.aspx

[Cerridwen]

1. Some of the comments were disgusting.

Looks like we're spreading "democracy" in a rather interesting fashion over there. I wonder if that means they'll come over here to get it?

It's the U.S. occupation that has restricted these women's lives. Not the freaking religion.

Sorry, FormerOstrich, not ranting at you; ranting at the brain dead morons posting some vile crap in the comment section of that blog.

[FormerOstrich]

2. Understood!!

Thanks for adding your thoughts! I read that stuff and just shake my head in disbelief...and then when I post things here and it doesn't generate any discussion I start to wonder if maybe I have gone over the edge and just don't even know it.....


Thanks!!!!!!!!!

[Cerridwen]

3. Well, if you've "gone over the edge", I'm right there with ya.

:D

I know what you're saying about generating any discussion, though. Some days I'm amazed at what's not so important on DU versus what is.

Discussion seems a bit slow today so maybe that's it. Or, I could be killing your thread; which I've been known to do :blush:.

[Spike89]

4. Sadly, I'm not surprised

We don't get an accurate view of Iraq...too dangerous for our media to really report (and of course, some media don't really want to show it anyway). What we get are anecdotal bits from sources with agendas, overblown photo ops, and "news" from a very non-representative section of the Iraqi population (those working/living in the green zone). This vacuum of good information of course leaves us free to spout anything to reinforce our pre-existing beliefs.