Tuesday, November 07, 2006

SorryDubai's 'Foreign Harlots'

Once, there was a blog called SorryDubai, now extinct (the current blog of that name has no relation to the original).

One of his posts was a somewhat hyperbolic complaint about the tendency of most of the people in Dubai to classify as prostitutes all women who do not wear abayas, headscarves, and veils.

Farook is one of the people SorryDubai was writing about.

Farook said that he would gladly wager €2,000: Ten men could approach his wife and ask her anything--directions, the time, etc.--and she would refuse to answer or he would pay €200 every time she said anything at all to any of the men. He emphatically stated that any woman who did not dress and behave like his wife was acting like a prostitute.

I just listened quietly. I know differently, but there's no point trying to reason with Farook.

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