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[Ya-ta Boy]

I was reading an article about Syria on the Asia Times Online site and came across this little gem.

"a generation of young Syrian men, with bleak prospects for obtaining the kind of livelihood that would allow them to marry and establish families, has a less metaphorical dysfunction for which Cialis or even Viagra will do little good: the difficulty of having sex in the present socio-economic circumstances.

According to Syrian journalist Abdjullah Ta'i, his interviews with young Syrians who went to Iraq to join the insurgency reveals that one of the more common reasons given for doing so was not religious or nationalistic. Rather, as one returnee put it, "My friends and I went to fight in Iraq because we thought we would find lots of sex there. People said that sex and prostitution are available in streets because of the poverty and disorder. We wanted to exploit that situation."

Sadly for the largely Sunni sex-jihadis, there wasn't much sex to be had in Iraq, largely because prostitutes, like most women, have been driven from the public space they used to occupy by the violence of the insurgency. (If they were Shi'ite, they might have been able to avail themselves of the innumerable Iranian-run "temporary marriage" hotels that have sprung up in Baghdad and the cities of the south).

But while many went home disappointed, others stayed and were hired by Islamist militias - and here the 72 virgins available to newly martyred jihadis is a particularly useful hiring incentive; although a few have actually married Iraqi women, thereby solving the problem that led them to Iraq in the first place.

Most, it seems, have not been that lucky. And if the majority who left Syria (at least partly) for sex come back with little else beyond increased religious enthusiasm, to an economy that shows little signs of offering them prospects for a better future - politically, economically, or sexually - the tenuous balance between the Syrian regime and its people will be increasingly threatened."

This puts a different spin on things, doesn't it? It kinda takes some of the wind out of the religious fanaticism arguments of people like rapier and bigverne. The jihadis aren't so 'other' after all. They just want to get laid, like the rest of us.

Here's a link to the whole article (Sex, Shopping and the Death of a Regime):
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK17Ak04.html

[Kuros]

[Bulsajo]

Does anyone else find it wierd that, for such an article, the interviewees are Syrians? Ostensibly secular Syrians becoming involved in Islamic jihad for sex?

I guess what i'm driving at is: since Syria is not an Islamic state you can't really blame Islamic society for "a generation of young Syrian men, with bleak prospects for obtaining the kind of livelihood that would allow them to marry and establish families".

Not saying that this article does that, but we might as well point this out at the beginning of the thread or else we all know in what direction certain posters here are bound to carry it.

[Leslie Cheswyck]

Maybe you should pimp out your daughter.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Hater Depot]

After the killings at the Munich Olympics Yasser Arafat decided it was time to 'turn off' the group of hardened terrorists he'd put together to carry out those and other missions.

He went on a relentless campaign to get them married, forcing them to attend singles mixers and the like. It worked -- they all got married and never committed an act of terrorism again.

[bucheon bum]

It helped that Mossad eventually killed them all as well.

[bigverne]

[Bulsajo]

[bigverne]

[Leslie Cheswyck]

[bucheon bum]

[Bulsajo]

[jaganath69]

[Ya-ta Boy]

bigverne old boy, you are so full of hate that you can't see the humor in any thing, can you? You need 10 deep breaths and a couple of shots of soju. Or maybe that's a couple of deep breaths and 10 shots of soju.