Child Brides and Concubines

For some a rehash, for some a useful reminder or neater presentation of these recent eye-raising Gulf news stories:

"Two nausea inducing articles back to back, courtesy of blogger Descantia. Pardon the old news, I’ve had them sitting in drafts for a couple weeks, no time to blog anything that requires any extra brain-drain."

"Salwa Al Mutairi, a Kuwaiti political activist, relates in this video how on a recent visit to Maccah, religious scholars told her that having women turned into sex-slaves is a good thing. They also cited parts of Islamic scripture to her which support the enslavement of women for the purpose of sex. Apparently she has taken it hook, line, and sinker, and is now calling for a new law allowing sex-slaves for men so hat they can have halal sex besides their wife (/wives) and therefore saving good Muslim men from zina and fornication."

Well well, it seems 'change' really is afoot!
Arabs put their money where their revolutionary mouth was: as we applaud Egypt's initiative by a woman to really implement a change in the way things are done in the Arab world- starting, fittingly with Egypt, saying no to aid-dependency.

"Egypt declines World Bank loan as incompatible with national interest:"