{"id":2521,"date":"2011-04-04T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T16:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2011-04-04T11:35:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T17:35:56","slug":"aphrodite-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2521","title":{"rendered":"Aphrodite Smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back when this blog was young, I wrote a post called “Aphrodite will not be Denied<\/a>”\u00a0 about the botheration caused to some Muslim clerics by the sultry Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If there is anything that drives the mullahs and imams mad, it is female sexuality.<\/p>\n

The bloom is off the rose of the recent Egyptian revolution, you may be sure, for now the Muslim Brotherhood, the best-organized political grouping, wants to establish Saudi-style morality police.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Veena Malik<\/p><\/div>\n

In a video at this link<\/a>, the Pakistani actress Veena Malik <\/a>rips into a grim-faced mullah who claims that she has “filled his heart with sadness.”<\/p>\n

“No one in Pakistan can look at her pictures in the presence of their daughters,” he rants. (These mullahs can accelerate from reasonable <\/em>to rant<\/em> in 2.4 seconds.)<\/p>\n

“I don’t think that her [hypothetical?] son will like to look at his mother’s pictures in the future.” (It’s always all about the boys.)<\/p>\n

Whereupon she rips him a new one, suggesting, for example, that he concern himself with Islamic clergy who rape the little boys that they are supposed to be teaching. (Sound familiar?)<\/p>\n

In American political discourse, however, feminist values too lead to some odd turnings when they conflict with the mainstream media narrative about “the religion of peace<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

For example, when Time <\/em>magazine ran a picture of\u00a0 a young Afghan woman mutilated by the Taliban for an alleged sexual offense, the New York Times <\/em>dismissed the photo as “war porn<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

And although Veena Malik might be shocked to hear it, I see the power of Aphrodite in her “smackdown<\/a>” of the ranting mullah.\u00a0 As as goddess, she can manifest how and when she pleases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back when this blog was young, I wrote a post called “Aphrodite will not be Denied”\u00a0 about the botheration caused to some Muslim clerics by the sultry Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe. If there is anything that drives the mullahs and imams mad, it is female sexuality. 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