Clash of the Civilisations
Reader comment on item: "Pasha Bordello" Accepts Islamist Demands

Submitted by Georges Fernandez (India), Apr 27, 2006 at 11:38

A more creative solution would have been to cover the model's face with a black burqa, since her features appear quite middle eastern despite the blonde hair color, and who knows, she might even be from Saudi Arabia or Iran herself! -- In which case, it would be blasphemy for her to entertain the Soccer folk from the Dhimmi lands.

Such eclecticism is not approved by the Koran, at least not in the reverse direction. The report does not say if the clientele of the brothel was predominantly derived from the Middle East, justifying its name, or if the name and the model were a fairly conventional lure to tickle the Western fascination with forbidden Oriental pleasures from the time of Lawrence of Arabia! The incident merely proves that nothing is sacrosanct for the Islamist censors, not even brothels.

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