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July 2008

At the risk of coming over like a superannuated punk, surely the Sex Pistols summed up this swill best as “a cheap holiday in other people’s misery”. Even forgetting the persecution of gays and the near-enslavement of immigrant workers in these lush hellholes, the position of women under fundamentalist Islam indicates that Sal and Moll are suffering from some sort of sexual Stockholm Syndrome which is just as vile as sex tourism.

I can’t list all the ways in which the lives of these women are ruined, but the obscenity of “honour” killings and the epidemic of forced marriages to old strangers will do well enough. “Honour”, “pride” and “shame” are words which are flung about a great deal in Arab/Islamic culture, and as these women are such great fans of the whole rotten spectacle, I would sum up by saying: “Shame on you, ladies, for showing so little pride in your own hard-won Western freedoms and grovelling to such a shameful, woman-hating, life-denying excuse for a culture.”

I blame Turkish Delight adverts myself.

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Mary Jackson
July 30th, 2008
2:07 PM
Western women who condone or, worse still, convert to Islam, are profoundly stupid. Dozy bints, I call them, and have written about them at length here.

puzzler
July 21st, 2008
12:07 PM
Nice one Julie. Good to see you have lost none of your bite. The middle class "traveller" has always been far too pronbe to looking down on ordinary tourits, and in conveniently ignoring the reality of what they see around them.

NotaSheep
July 11th, 2008
10:07 AM
Excellent article, thanks.

Brett_McS
July 10th, 2008
10:07 PM
Good to see the Multi-Culti fashion being called out. "A cheap holiday in other people's misery", indeed.

John the Fierce
July 10th, 2008
4:07 PM
The allure of exotic Islam is like the old allure of exotic communism. They have the appeal of curiosities to wealthy and bored Westerners. One good night in a gulag or a week of beatings at the hands of your husband would change all that, of course, but usually by that time folks have flown off to the next exotic spot where they can fill their vacant minds with more drivel.

Matthew Wilson
July 10th, 2008
1:07 PM
Well said, Julie.

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