Daughter of cleric who called 9/11 terrorists the “Magnificent 19” is a pole dancer in London
(It’s just like Morris dancing, really)
You’ve heard about ‘cultural relativism’, no doubt. The somewhat dubious – okay, the quite insane idea that you can’t, in effect, judge and/or disapprove of any type of behaviour, since different cultures do things differently, which means that saying this or that is morally wrong is a form of (no doubt colonial) bigotry, racism and what have you.
So, in the eyes of the cultural relativist, stoning adulteresses, hanging homosexuals, or cutting off the clitorises of young girls with blunt and infected knives, is, in essence, the same type of activity as Morris dancing.
Anyway, I was reminded of this whole stupid business of cultural relativism, when I read the following, highly amusing news story. Mind you, it’s brought to you by one of the worst, and most sensational and mendacious of the English tabloids, the Sun. So, it might well be untrue, or exaggerated to a point that you’d need an inverted Hadron Collider to define it.
Still, I’d very much like this story to be true, so I’ll treat it as seriously as anything I would read in, let’s say, the Financial Times. (Which, come to think of it, is a very cultural relative type of behaviour…)
Okay, so, this is what I was thinking: You have cultural relativism, which, superficially, looks like the exact opposite of cultural determinism. It’s no such thing beyond this surface look of things, of course, since ‘cultural determinism’ is just a posh way of saying that, as Newton found out, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Which brings us back to the story I read, about a father and his daughter. Without too much hyperbole you can say that, in this case, the apple couldn’t have ended further from the tree if Satan had been Babe Ruthing it and Eve had been the wide receiver.
Anyway, enjoy the story. I sure did:
Yasmin Fostok, 27, leads a secret life after rebelling against her fanatical Muslim dad, cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, who once hailed the 9/11 terrorists as the “Magnificent 19”. She has performed in London pole dancing bars and gyrated half-naked in cages at club nights, and she admitted: “I’m willing to go topless if the venue is right.”
Bakri, 50 — in Lebanon after being kicked out of Britain — told The Sun: “I am deeply shocked.” Bakri is a Muslim preacher of hate who wants all women to be covered from head to toe. His daughter loves partying, happily poses for raunchy topless photos and is described by a lover as “very adventurous in bed”.
(So, you can’t compare some apples and trees…)
(TO BE CONTINUED… HERE)
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September 27th, 2008 at 20:08
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