{"id":2408,"date":"2007-11-11T12:44:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T12:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2007-11-11T12:44:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T12:44:29","slug":"2007-11-11-links-for-111107-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2408","title":{"rendered":"Links for 11\/11\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">For a lazy Sunday:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20071111\/wl_mideast_afp\/egyptchristianshenuda_071111105544\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20071111\/wl_mideast_afp\/egyptchristianshenuda_071111105544\">Egypt&#8217;s Coptic Pope needs more time in hospital: church<\/a> &#8211; Baba Shenouda continues to be seriously ill<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/2ba1c9c0-8f31-11dc-87ee-0000779fd2ac.html\">The crescent and the cross<\/a> &#8211; FT review destroys &#8220;Eurabia&#8221; books<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.north-africa.com\/blog\/?page_id=50\">What&#8217;s Behind the Reversal of Tunisia Hijab Ban?<\/a> &#8211; A look at a recent court decision to reverse longstanding ban<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/janice_turner\/article2843581.ece\">When the bikini line turned to a battleline<\/a> &#8211; bodily hair in Islamic and Western culture, mentioned here because of very bizarre opening paragraphs:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Christopher Hitchens, hammer of Islamism, rationalist supernova, has just had a &#8220;back, sack and crack wax&#8221;. Here he is in December&#8217;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 &#8212; &#8220;like being tortured for information that you do not possess, with intervals for a (incidentally very costly) sandpaper handjob&#8221; &#8212; and wonder if it might afford him some deeper insight into activities inside Guantanamo.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">For a lazy Sunday:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20071111\/wl_mideast_afp\/egyptchristianshenuda_071111105544\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20071111\/wl_mideast_afp\/egyptchristianshenuda_071111105544\">Egypt&#8217;s Coptic Pope needs more time in hospital: church<\/a> &#8211; Baba Shenouda continues to be seriously ill<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/2ba1c9c0-8f31-11dc-87ee-0000779fd2ac.html\">The crescent and the cross<\/a> &#8211; FT review destroys &#8220;Eurabia&#8221; books<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.north-africa.com\/blog\/?page_id=50\">What&#8217;s Behind the Reversal of Tunisia Hijab Ban?<\/a> &#8211; A look at a recent court decision to reverse longstanding ban<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/janice_turner\/article2843581.ece\">When the bikini line turned to a battleline<\/a> &#8211; bodily hair in Islamic and Western culture, mentioned here because of very bizarre opening paragraphs:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Christopher Hitchens, hammer of Islamism, rationalist supernova, has just had a &#8220;back, sack and crack wax&#8221;. Here he is in December&#8217;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 &#8212; &#8220;like being tortured for information that you do not possess, with intervals for a (incidentally very costly) sandpaper handjob&#8221; &#8212; and wonder if it might afford him some deeper insight into activities inside Guantanamo.<br \/>\nYet, 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[229,6,194,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}