'Babes of Hamas' pinup calendar not selling very well
A pinup calendar that Hamas is trying to use to raise funds
doesn't appear to be selling very well.
The “Babes of Hamas” pinup calendar was intended to support the
cash-strapped organization in its efforts to rebuild its arsenal,
tunnels, and logistical operations in the wake of a punishing war this
past summer with Israel. However, the publication has sold anemically,
forcing the organization to absorb tens thousands of dollars in expenses
and to dispose of the hundreds of thousands of copies it had ordered
several weeks ago.
The calendar features twelve wives and daughters of Hamas operatives,
including those of senior Hamas officials, clad only in a full-body
chador, hijab, and niqab, completely revealing their eyes. The
photographs were taken at various romantic or scenic locations in the
Gaza Strip early last month, such as the beach at sunset with a boatload
of weapons being smuggled in the background, or in the cleaning
products aisle of a well-stocked supermarket, to emphasize the privation
caused by the Israeli blockade. As a bonus feature, the calendar also
includes a life-size, fold-out poster of a well-oiled Kalashnikov
automatic rifle completely uncovered, positioned such that its magazine
intake socket is showing.
Hamas spokesman Ashudda Nohn told reporters that slow demand and
difficulty in delivering the calendars in any significant quantities to
the West Bank were both to blame for the paltry sales. “We may have
overestimated the popularity of the genre in the Gaza Strip,” admitted
Nohn. “And that’s weird, because despite the morality patrols and
enforced separation of men and women in all sorts of venues, pornography
consumption here is on par with anywhere else in the world.”
Analysts say they are not surprised at the lack of revenue from sales
of the calendar. “The real action is in Syria and Iraq, where people
can get actual women for just a few dollars in the areas under control
of the Islamic State,” says Hugh Mantraffy-King, who studies societal
developments in the region. “Who’s going to plunk down forty shekels for
a few photos when you can get the real thing just a few hundred
kilometers to the north for a only slightly more?” Forty shekels equals
about 12 US dollars. Christian, Kurdish, and Yazidi women are available
for purchase as sex slaves in IS-controlled areas for as little as ten
dollars, but transportation and smuggling fees add to the total.
Heh.
Labels: Hamas, humor, Islamic treatment of women, sex slaves
Female Kuwaiti Muslim politician trying to revive sex slavery
A female Kuwaiti Muslim politician has called for reviving the institution of
sex slavery.
A brief English report appeared over the weekend in the Kuwait Times (nothing, of course, in the MSM):
Muslim men who fear being seduced or tempted into immoral behavior by the beauty of their female servants, or even of those servants "casting spells" on them, would be better to purchase women from an "enslaved maid" agency for sexual purposes. She [Mutairi] suggested that special offices could be set up to provide concubines in the same way as domestic staff recruitment agencies currently provide housemaids. "We want our youth to be protected from adultery," said al-Mutairi, suggesting that these maids could be brought as prisoners of war in war-stricken nations like Chechnya to be sold on later to devout merchants.
The Arabic news website, Al Arabiya, has the sordid details, including a video of Mutairi addressing this topic. I summarize and translate various excerpts below (note: I am not making any of this up):
The Kuwaiti female activist begins by insisting that "it's of course true" that "the prophet of Islam legitimized sex-slavery." She recounts how when she was in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, she asked various sheikhs and muftis (learned, authoritative Muslims) about the legality of sex-slavery according to Sharia: they all confirmed it to be perfectly legal; Kuwaiti ulema further pointed out that extra "virile" men—Western synonyms include "sex-crazed," "lecherous," "perverted"—would do well to purchase sex-slaves to sate their appetites without sinning.
Here's a particularly interesting excerpt from her taped speech on the rules governing sex-slaves:A Muslim state must [first] attack a Christian state—sorry, I mean any non-Muslim state—and they [the women, the future sex-slaves] must be captives of the raid. Is this forbidden? Not at all; according to Islam, sex slaves are not at all forbidden. Quite the contrary, the rules regulating sex-slaves differ from those for free women [i.e., Muslim women]: the latter's body must be covered entirely, except for her face and hands, whereas the sex-slave is kept naked from the bellybutton on up—she is different from the free woman; the free woman has to be married properly to her husband, but the sex-slave—he just buys her and that's that.
She went on to offer concrete suggestions: "For example, in the Chechnyan war, surely there are female Russian captives. So go and buy those and sell them here in Kuwait; better that than have our men engage in forbidden sexual relations. I don't see any problem in this, no problem at all."
Mutairi suggests the enslaved girls be at least 15 years-old.
There is no other religion that promotes this sort of thing in the 21st century. None whatsoever.
Labels: Muslim treatment of women, religion of rape, sex slaves
