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"Humor is a funny way of being serious"
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Thursday, April 27, 2006
The good thing about being a Middle Eastern Christian is that it's as sexist as you can be without being Muslim. It’s the best of both worlds – you can be sexist but you’re not obliged to blow things up and monitor the Cartoon Network for offensive content. As a matter of fact, it seems like that’s the only thing we can agree upon with them. It’s good to accentuate commonalities. Who knew we had so much in common. Although for us it has nothing to do with religion but is merely an old-fashioned relict - the way the rest of the world was as recently as last century. My hairdresser, a Christian, says that only Mullah Omar of Afghanistan had the right idea about women. I have no problem with women wearing veils, except Muslim women who usually wear it for the wrong reasons - as a radical exclusionary political emblem - even though they may not often know this themselves.
6:00 pm
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