[extropy-chat] Sheiks and sex (was OIL: Albertan tar sands)

[The Avantguardian]

--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, $30/bbl production cost American oil certainly
> isn't quite the
> same as $2/bbl production cost Saudi oil. On the
> plus side most of that
> $30 is going into the bank accounts of Americans and
> not being
> profligately squandered by Saudi sheiks with too
> much theology and not
> enough motivation to get a life.

The sheiks can't have too much theology because that
theology is one of the pillars that support their
power. The whole point of Mohammedist theocracy is
that Mohammed was both a prophet of Allah AND a
secular ruler, so the distinction between the two
roles of religion and state is highly intertwined and
integrated in Muslim society.

If anyone has too much theology, it is those Islamic
men who are not sheiks and don't have tons of oil
money, 4 wives, and 50 concubines. Those are the guys
who have no life, which is why they can focus their
sexual frustration into acts of suicidal
mass-destruction. Thus the sheiks are the "winners" of
Muslim sexual politics, the wankers are "martyrs" (a
win-win situation if you believe in Paradise), and the
big "losers" are the masses of kept women who are
treated like chattel and have to compete with each
other for the attentions of their husband. Obviously
this is a wonderful system . . . if you are a sheik.
  

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