I had been working on a post expressing my disappointment with the content of much of the Syrian blogosphere when I saw this today: A campaign to combat masturbation! Need I say more? I almost fell off my chair!! Is this for real? I guess I was not aware of the masturbation "epidemic" that has hit Syria’s youth.
I am still trying to understand what the impetus was for this campaign. Are there no other more pressing righteous causes? How about poverty, gender discrimination, honor killings, the absence of civil liberties and the absence of freedom of expression among a long list of societal ills. Don’t these deserve more immediate attention than a practice that is the realm of the personal and affects no one else?
(Prophylactic T Shirt: works best with MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" playing in the background)
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I completely agree! I added Syrian planet to my google reader list few weeks ago and I am sincerely disappointed in the quality of postings so far.
A Syrian on the outside looking in.
I wonder how he can control himself with porn sites fill up the Syrian either, but not politics.
I had the same observation when I ran into this post. I could not believe my eyes, is that for real? The guy kept going and going on instructions and on the medical prohibition and the medication and everything you need to know to keep your virginity to the wedding night, the guy is know it all fellow.
I think this guy and his likes found a way to civil liberties by abstinences. Because under his majesty special attention to the blogosphere and technology, ( by keeping motivators in prison) and after a good start four years ago, the chicken now coming to roost according the his majesty instruction, let them talk about anything but politics, and no one can dare to define politic it could be anything they do not like, and this is the result.
A good friend pointed me to this post about masturbation after she found a link on Global Voices. She was shocked, needless to say.
I skimmed through it quickly. My first impression was exactly like yours. I was so pissed off I felt I need to write about it. Then I got a better idea. Why don't we get together, the bad guys and gals of the Syrian Blogsphere and promote a week with some stupid name and piss the "good" guys off for a change. Let's come up with something very nasty and hit back. I and my blog are under your command Abu Kareem. Let's really put something together:-)
I very much like Abufares' idea.. lets have something to do with praising Bab Alharra, just for kicks:)
...I am sure we can come up with very hilarous posts,lol
Abu Fares,
Great idea. I vote to help them out with their righteous cause by having a contest among the bloggers to come up with the most creative and ingeneous device (or poster) to help curb the scrouge of masturbation. For example: an electrified male chastity belt that zaps you everytime you touch it or more embarassing a belt with a piercing alarm; or you can turn your dick into an inkblot so that everytime you touch it, your hands turn blue and everyone knows you've been a bad, bad boy. How about it? I think you should post the contest (you are funnier and less restrained than I am). You and I and perhaps one other blogger can be the judges.
Great
let's put something together.
Give me a couple of days. I'll get back to you :-)
Ok, now you're all going to laugh, but, when I saw that title on SY planet, I didn't immediately get it (I didn't read the rest of the post). You see, my spoken Arabic is excellent but it was probably a fos7a term, although I wouldn't know the spoken word in Arabic for masturbation either. So anyway, I did what I always do when I don't understand a word.
Arabic dictionary.
Also called Dad :D
And when I told him that some guy was campaigning to forbid masturbation, his reaction was as brief as "eh na2esna". It says it all.
@Abufares: give them a week of red shoe diaries! It doesn't even have to get dirty, naughty is enough to piss them off. They're that "sensitive", you know ;-)
Like you all, I was absolutely shocked when I saw the listing on Syria Planet, and I refused to even waste a moment reading the entry.
I dread to imagine how many Syrians will actually be heeding his call to spread this most pathetic of campaigns, when there are so many real issues worth talking about, especially during Ramadan, let alone the despair and misery that have overtaken so many people.
this guy is coco
look what i found on his blog :D
http://tinyurl.com/nktxjc
I like how he'd sternly used the following warning to the Muslim sister:
من أخطر ما قد يصيب الفتاة جراء هذه الممارسة القذرة أنها قد تفقد بكارتها إن مارستها داخليا (المهبل) فأخبرينى أُختى بالله عليك ماذا تقولين لزوجك إن اكتشف فقد العذرية هل ستقولين أنك كنت تمارسين العادة السرية ؟
I'd bet he'd written that with a pack of kleenex nearby.
I saw this on Sy Planet and I couldn't help but burst in laughter. I immediately posted it to Global Voices because it was too funny to pass up.
I got an email from a friend saying that the campaign will get a following enough to crowd a phone booth.
Oh dear! Now my only source of entertainment has to be given up!
lol
wait a minute... why they did a campaign to combat masturbation? I am an expert in masturbation and I couldn't find any bad thing against this activity.
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