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Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
 
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A camel has been condemned to death after a worker was caught having sex with it in the remote emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. The man, a Bangladeshi driver, was sentenced to three months in jail for his dangerous liaisons. His employer reported him to the authorities after spotting him making regular visits to the camel barn, Gulf News reported.
The Economist


edit: Fixed link 3 times. I'm special.

[ October 28, 2005, 02:46 AM: Message edited by: Beren One Hand ]
 
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
 
Er, is that SUPPOSED to link to the Harry Potter movie trailer? [Confused]
 
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
 
[Big Grin]

Sorry about that. Now you know what I do with my free time.

(I'm talking about HP, not camels.)
 
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
 
Intriguing, but the new link still has nothing to do with camels. [Dont Know]
 
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
Maybe he was testing to see who among us is weird enough to click on such a link.
 
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
 
There's something weird going on with my "Ctrl-C" function on Firefox. Yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. [Smile]
 
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
 
That dirty, dirty camel.
 
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
 
Many people have trouble with copy/paste in Firefox, and I haven't been able to figure out why it hasn't been fixed yet.

It would be easier for the kingdom of heaven to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter a camel.

Wait, I think I've got something wrong; let me try again...
 
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Nato:
It would be easier for the kingdom of heaven to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter a camel.

Wait, I think I've got something wrong; let me try again...

[ROFL]

I wonder if it was a male or female camel. Would that change the seriousness of the sin, or is it all just a super-bonus abomination?
 
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
 
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.58 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 2.691 male(s)/female

He was jailed for being too poor to compensate the owner for the value of the camel.
If he had been caught having sex with a woman-not-his-wife -- whether or not she consented -- they would have executed the woman; with the same money or jail choice for the man.

[ November 01, 2005, 02:45 AM: Message edited by: aspectre ]
 
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
 
quote:

That dirty, dirty camel.

:lol:
 
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 
Now, see, what really bothers me is my train of thought here.

1) Sex with camels, agh!
2) Wait, it was a HARRY POTTER LINK?
3) And his name is "One Hand"...

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by aspectre:
He was jailed for being too poor to compensate the owner for the value of the camel.
If he had been caught having sex with a woman-not--his-wife -- whether or not she consented -- they would have executed the woman; with the same money or jail choice for the man.

You understand, I hope, that this is what's in practice by people, which is not the same as what is supposed to happen under Shari'a (Muslim) law?
 
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
 
Very much so, quidscribis. Take a look at the sex ratios in Muslim-majority nations from Jordan northwestward, from Yemen westward and southwestward, and from Iraq eastward and northward. Pretty comparable to the rest of the world.

On the other hand, the clerics, the legal scholars, and the judges in the cesspool of SaudiArabia, Kuwait, the UnitedArabEmirates, Quatar, Oman -- all claiming to be Muslim states -- routinely murder a significant percentage of their women between the ages of puberty and menopause under what they call "Sharia", with the explicit blessings of their totalitarian rulers.
Note that I didn't say "authoritarian".
Just how high of a percentage is difficult to tease out of the sex-ratio numbers since there is no breakdown of the male/female ratio in their non-native"guest"worker population. But the percentage of women murdered is reflected in the difference between sex ratios of their over-65 populations and the World's average of 0.79males/1.00females, because most non-native"guest"workers are not allowed to retire in the host countries.
Which may be a minimum because well over 2/3rds of the world's people live in far greater poverty.

[ October 28, 2005, 12:15 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]
 
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Nato:
It would be easier for the kingdom of heaven to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter a camel.

[Laugh] Nato

<Gasp, gasp..>
[ROFL]
 
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 
Was it a one-hump or two-hump camel?

OK, I'm going to burn for that one.
 


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