The 2006 Asian Games are underway in the State of Qatar, which lies in the Persian Gulf. Being a predominantly Muslim nation, Qatar is finding it difficult to cope with women’s beach volleyball. Why you ask?
Well let’s see what you need to host a beach volleyball game:
-Newly built arena… CHECK!
-Freshly textured beach-quality sand… CHECK! (Qatar is a desert nation)
-Several regulation volleyballs… CHECK!
-Hot, sweaty, scantily clothed chicks with asses to die for… UH OH!
Therein lies the problem. You see, Muslims have a hard time dealing with the matters of the flesh especially when it comes to women. My theory is that Muslim males have a difficult time restraining themselves and therefore need women to dress up like beekeepers. Now we have discussed this matter several times here and to be honest, we didn’t even sway one Muslim over to our side. But for once, for the sake of one of the finest sporting events to ever grace my tv screen, I will make the case for women’s beach volleyball with three crucial pieces of evidence.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer, nor have I been advised by a lawyer. The following is based on common sense and information obtained from the web. Finally, I claim no responsibility for any immoral acts that may occur from the use of any picture found here.
Thanks to Father Ted for this one!
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December 5th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Is it hot in here?
December 5th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Do you have more exhibits, gasmono? I need more persuasion! :Q
December 5th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Look, it’s quite simple. A long long time ago, someone convinced a lot of people that he was the messenger of a vengeful, dangerous god, and that this god wanted all the women to cover up… OR ELSE.
Flash forward 1.5 thousand years or so, and people are just so used to it, that anything out of the ordinary is shocking and offensive. Yes, they are repressed. More so than most. But so are we. We think nudity is offensive, yet our ancestors were naked all the time. Clothing is just something that’s practical measurement against the elements, since we’re all relatively hairless creatures now. We just think Muslims are ridiculous because they take it to the obvious extreme. We’re guilty too. Ask yourself if you’d feel comfortable going to work totally nude. Even if you thought it was okay, you’d still say no because the reactions you would get would be HORRIFIC. Plus, most of us aren’t exactly on par with Michelangelo’s David.
Anyways, PROFESSIONAL spectator sports are stupid to begin with. I’ll be sure to add them to my list of irrelevant human traditions.
December 5th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Gasmonso, I find your argument’s logic irrefutable.
December 5th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
I find the arguments somewhat lacking in substance (too skinny to my liking ) but hey I do see the validity of the arguments.
December 5th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
fckeditor FTW, when’d this happen?
December 5th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Does it look ok or is it messed up?
December 5th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Looks fine to me.
The spell check isn’t needed if you have firefox 2.0 or above, though. Still nice for those IE users. Dunno about Opera.
December 5th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Hmm, underlining and emoticons don’t seem to work.
December 5th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
The numbered list and bulleting appears broken as well.
December 5th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Regular text
BOLD TEXT
Underlined text
Everything seems to work just fine on my Firefox 2 setup.
gasmonso
December 5th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Wow, a new interface.
complete with bullets
and numbers
this is niffty
and complete with spell check
It looks like it works great!
December 5th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Nope, the bullets and numbering didn’t work with FireFox 1.5. I’ll just have to upgrade.
December 5th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
nice… might give our muslim friends some bad ideas… like CAPS LOCK wasn’t enough…
December 5th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
I have the latest firefox… still got broken stuff.
December 5th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
i would agree with arktis, except that i like to have a pint and watch a soccer game (premiership and champs league mainly). as far as getting muslims to relax with respect to seeing women show a little more skin, i think that is a function of time and the environment. during the 50s and 60s, most arab countries (and the people in them) were much more relaxed towards this type of stuff. many movies from popular culture (from that period) have the women dressed as they would in western countries, even in a bikini if it was called for. contact between the sexes was also prevalent in the pop culture, but you would only rarely see actors kiss on screen. my point is just that these arab/muslim countries were more open towards this in the past, but global politics evolved to allow for religious fundamentalism to thrive and prosper. hopefully these islamic movements/trends won’t last too long and we’ll be able to see beautiful scantily clad women on the hot arab sands. and of course the arab world is very diverse itself… saudi culture contrasts with egyptian culture, which all contrast with moroccan. the gulf arab countries tend to be more religiously conservative than the mediterranean countries, but of course the divide is not that clear cut.
December 5th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
@Arktisummm, clothing serves the purpose of covering up sexual signals. Females in even the most remote backward tribes cover their genitals. Plus, I know I’d find it pretty difficult to get anything done at work if I was surrounded by hot naked ladies all day.
December 5th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Hahaha
December 5th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Genitals, you said it, noumenon.It’s in those remote tribes, breasts are not genitals, and thus, aren’t covered. All of this is just culture, the arabs being the screw ups only in that this vestimentary code is only applied to women.
December 5th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Hrm, I thought at first that exhibit C was censored. Then I realized it was the bottom of the net.
As for PROFESSIONAL sports being an irrelevant human tradition, I assume that means that you’re off to play some ultimate frisbee. I don’t know exactly why I said that, but it sounds correct.
December 5th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Misogyny is fun. Imagine being a woman for the last millenium or 6, in ANY continent or place in the old world. Fuck, anyone anywhere not JUST like EVERYONE else, anyplace on the globe since the beggining of time.
Everyone should spend every day of their lives from this point on trying to realize how much that had to suck; and how women and men everywhere now are thirsting for the freedoms a handfull of nations have these days. In the future, I hope real progress will be measured as a species; followers of our selves, not some higher power.
December 6th, 2006 at 1:42 am
guessing *wildly* here… covering genitals might be related to what caused the wide spread acceptance of circumcision in males: infections. we observe similar behaviours among many different cultures continents away. i am a firs believer that whatever causes those similarities comes from our common evolutionary path. that is why you see similar solutions to the same problem, adapted to the environment. drunk rant over…to who ever said not getting any work done and whatever… well, in your scenarion i would have to gouge my eyes out and kill myself right after that… don’t work around very many good looking people… except for that one girl… rowr… ;-)
December 6th, 2006 at 8:28 am
The clothes thing again?aren’t muslims ever going to get bored of it?
December 6th, 2006 at 9:20 am
Hey gasmonso, for those who uses Opera the new text editing future does not work.And i love to use My Opera. Will have to use Firefox for postings then.Cheers!
December 7th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Not that it is needed, but this kind of thing justifies my FIRM belief that all religion is just a tool for the empowerment of the few over the rest. Anyone who actually believes differently is stunted in my opinion.
March 13th, 2007 at 2:45 am
hi,,is there any ultimate frisbee in qatar? thsk so much
October 11th, 2007 at 8:18 am
Wow, it’s pretty weird what you guys are saying.
I’m not going to argue whether these pics can move you as a male or not, but that’s up to the individual desires (some people are even gay who will never be moved by such pics).
But what i want to argue is: Did any Muslim come up to you, to your wife, or to your gf or a woman you know, and asked her to cover up???
THEN WHY DO YOU BOTHER?? They want to cover from head to toe, let them do it!!!!! You r not their legal guardian, nor r u paying their bill… Would you let anyone come up to you and tell you what you are wearing doesn’t make sense??? If not, then do NOT do it to others.
p.s.: Why do I always see the Nuns wearing the same thing, FROM HEAD TO TOE???? Can I have an explanation from that from my dear fellow Christians???
November 8th, 2007 at 4:27 am
simple point to be made here. truth of the fact being that everyone no matter how hard they try look oddly on things that clash with their own cultural beliefs. that being said i saw a comment that said something to the affect of women and men everywhere thirsting for freedoms that only a hand full of country’s have. well on that point their are plenty of people out their that are completely content with their religious beliefs and the rules of said country that they exist in. democratic nations speaking for the majority of them not implying all tend to have an issue with pushing their beliefs on others. even if said person is all together uninterested in changing the way they live. we tend to want to make everyone and every country that doesn’t suit what we believe to be proper follow in our footsteps. I say help the ones that want change but don’t force it on the ones that don’t. we as democratic nations yell freedom but then down communist countrys for their government practices. which if you really want freedom then shouldn’t you leave the people who believe in and follow communist rule to being communist. it stems itself I believe in the majoraly prodestant make p of many democratic nations. even in the us where freedoms are fought for and argued over daily to make sure that one persons freedoms don’t force someone else not to have the same freedoms. one persons rights end where anothers begin. I still see a very common problem with one of the founding freedoms of our country. and just for the record before I go any further I am of the christian faith. but every year I hear how clergy men an church goers alike go out and harass, and try to but a stop to the religious practice of the wiccan religion. its a very big thing where I live in paticular. I have seen ordained ministers go as far as to throw bibles at practitioners of said religion and strike people purposefully with bibles, and nothing ever be said to them by any law enforcement officer. my point is we preach freedom, equality, and freedom of religion, and speech. along with seperation of church and state. yet we censor language and nudity on tv because some people find it offensive. and most would say because some find it offensive that why its censored. in defense of freedom the people that find it offensive are in no way forced to watch if they don’t want to. we choke freedom because people are to lazy to change the channel if they don’t like whats on, or better yet turn off the tv. you have never heard of someone calling and complaining about christian programming on their tv because their not christian. we also let people trod on others freedom of religion because the majority doesn’t agree with it. the constitution says nothing about majority descision controlling this freedom. anyway we treat people unfairly and oppress beliefs and thought that doesn’t follow the norm, yet we preach freedom. with all that being said in short it just isn’t right by any human standered to press your beliefs on others, but every nation through out the world and almost every religion does this maybe not always intentionally but it does…… think about that.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Hahahahahahah!
I love it. Don’t you think they could make the girls play all covered up in robes and shit? I mean, they’d effin’ die of dehydration and heat-exposure, but that’s how things work over there.
When in Qatar…