2:44PM
Links for 11/11/07
Issandr El Amrani
For a lazy Sunday:
- Egypt's Coptic Pope needs more time in hospital: church - Baba Shenouda continues to be seriously ill
- The crescent and the cross - FT review destroys "Eurabia" books
- What’s Behind the Reversal of Tunisia Hijab Ban? - A look at a recent court decision to reverse longstanding ban
- When the bikini line turned to a battleline - bodily hair in Islamic and Western culture, mentioned here because of very bizarre opening paragraphs:
Christopher Hitchens, hammer of Islamism, rationalist supernova, has just had a “back, sack and crack wax”. Here he is in December's Vanity Fair, pudgy hands clasped in unlikely prayer pose, while a cadre of beauticians yank swatches of what seems to be shag-pile from the nethermost Pelt of the Hitch. Antiwar types might relish his agonised depilation diary — “like being tortured for information that you do not possess, with intervals for a (incidentally very costly) sandpaper handjob” — and wonder if it might afford him some deeper insight into activities inside Guantanamo.
Yet, strangely, in submitting to this ritual for a feature on self-improvement to celebrate his recently acquired US citizenship (he also traded fag-stained British hat-pegs for twinkly Hollywood gnashers) Hitchens has stepped into a rare place where Islam and Western consumerism concurs. For both agree that body hair, in its lush, natural form, is gross and repellent, a problem that must be eradicated at all costs.
Reader Comments (6)
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Isn't it surprising that the Arab preference for depilating nether-regions isn't the subject of wider tittering among Western right-wingers, particularly the hijab-fetish crowd and those who like to go on about the prophet's child bride?
I think many of them just aren't aware of it. When it has come up in discussions, most Westerners seem very surprised and don't understand why men are supposed to grow their beards out but trim or shave body hair.
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