{"id":7542,"date":"2010-02-21T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7542"},"modified":"2010-02-21T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T22:29:10","slug":"islam-and-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/islam-and-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam and imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone once said that the prospect of having sex with a duchess is more alluring than the prospect of having sex with a chamber maid. The point he was making was that imagination plays a greater part in sexual temptation than flagrantly exposed flesh: the apparently unobtainable is more enticing than what is freely proffered. This is what is missing in Islam\u2019s potty attempt to keep Muslim men free from temptation: that which cannot be seen but only imagined is often more tempting that something that is flagrantly exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Any Muslim man watching this should have a cold shower afterwards:<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_kbvvZs_0Zc&amp;]<\/p>\n<p>Of course, sometimes the imagination can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/763261---bearded-cross-eyed-divorce-case-grips-dubai\" target=\"_blank\">play tricks on you<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An unnamed Arab ambassador has successfully had his marriage annulled after discovering that his veiled wife was bearded and cross-eyed.<\/p>\n<p>The case has gripped the once-booming city-state of Dubai, where old and new world still meet jarringly.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/gulf\/uae\/crime\/man-claims-fiancee-hid-beard-under-niqab-1.580722%20\">the <em>Gulf News<\/em><\/a>, the ambassador told a Sharia court that he was unable to get a look at his future wife\u2019s face until after they had been married. On the few occasions when they did meet, she wore a niqab, which covers all of the face except for a thin slit for the eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The man claimed that his mother-in-law tricked him by showing him pictures of his future wife\u2019s sister instead.<\/p>\n<p>Once he and his future bride, a physician, signed their marriage contract, the man described how he had kissed his bride. Once she removed her covering, he found that she had a surfeit of facial hair that he described as a beard, and that her eyes were crossed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone once said that the prospect of having sex with a duchess is more alluring than the prospect of having sex with a chamber maid. The point he was making was that imagination plays a greater part in sexual temptation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/islam-and-imagination\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2178,2249],"class_list":["post-7542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-islam","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}