Comments on: Gaza: the many wives of Nizar Ghayan

By: Roger L Simon

Roger L Simon — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:37:09 +0000

“Roger, re: #18, I don’t think you have to worry about credit scores in Paradise. I’m pretty sure the ratings agencies are all in the other place…”

Well, YOU say, David. But as any good cultural relativist would tell you, that’s only your view. In the eschatology of others equal to you, credit agencies may be the Gates of Heaven themselves.

By: David

David — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:29:45 +0000

Roger, re: #18, I don’t think you have to worry about credit scores in Paradise. I’m pretty sure the ratings agencies are all in the other place…

By: EdGi

EdGi — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:34:22 +0000

progressive proportionality against Isreal says that the killing of semetic jews by delberatly unguided missels, the deliberate use of human shields and Geneva Convention protected locations is OK if done by semetic muslims. Any act by semetic jews or Americans against semetic muslims is un-OK criminal to progressives. Scary hypocracy, and oddly dull witted, as progressive racist anti-semitism supports muslim loons who are semite.

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:18:47 +0000

Progressives are just biding their time, confident that they will be able to reform their less enlightened Muslim allies once the struggle against Western imperialism has been won. Or perhaps they believe their own values will be accommodated once sharia is ascendant. Gay men will be able to have 4 spouses at one time, for example.

The secular or more moderate types in Iran thought that way when they partnered with Khomeini in the fight against the Shah. Except that didn’t work out so well for them, I don’t think.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:02:50 +0000

The thing that struck me about this was to think of the Western money that goes to support these goons. The Gazans are poor defenseless little church mice with houses that are 3 story flats and have 14 children. The money we give to the UN goes for that? No thanks.

By: whiskey

whiskey — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:40:48 +0000

Smash monogamy is always one sided. Without rules, boundaries, limitations on men and women’s sexuality, most men lose out and various harems get formed by “Big Men” … regardless if they are Palestinian terrorists or Bill Clinton.

The sympathy of the Left for the Muslim terrorists and their polygamy stems from the same thing — desire for “Big Men” plus various harems and dynasties and such.

By: Barbara Skolaut

Barbara Skolaut — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:14:33 +0000

I complain about the lack of proportionality, too.

The Israelis should return an unguided rocket aimed specifically at a non-military target in Gaza for every one the Paleos fire (and have ever fired) at them. THAT’s proportional.

They can keep up the precision IAF bombing, too.

By: tanstaafl

tanstaafl — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:51:21 +0000

In the spirit of this, uh, discussion …it’s nice to know that the CIA might be helping out some Afghan warloads.

And maybe getting a little helpful information in the bargain.

Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends in Afghanistan

(bin laden and that grizzled old fart, al zawahiri, reportedly each “took” girls, age 16 or so, as “new” wives. Very sad for those girls. And remember when that paragon of insanity, Khomeini, re-instituted the age 9 marriage rule, since “The Prophet” (PBUH) connsumated his marriage to Aisha when she was 9 years old ? After first wife Khadija died, The Prophet “took” quite a few wives himself, around 14 or so. Reportedly, at least one was a Jewess captured in battle. Tho’ we’re told she’d renounced “the book” before Mohammed married her, I’ve always wondered what that particular marriage does to the whole “apes and pigs” thing.)

By: Lightnin' Hopkins

Lightnin' Hopkins — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:28:52 +0000

“A western wife has no such options and hence is more subjugated and imprisoned.”

Wow. Just effing wow.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:21:09 +0000

Progressive my behind. In this country the same people call men who have more than one wife “Mormon fundamentalists” and demand their children be taken away from them and they be thrown in jail.