Nymphos vs. Jihadists*

     The news today read that the Polish experimentalist Ania Lisewska, who is on a mission to engage in sexual intercourse with one thousand men from around the world, was banned from entering Lebanon. She was also denied a visa to enter Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia and Yemen amongst other Arab countries. Despite the fact that the decision to ban her entry breaches every right and freedom that most of these countries repeatedly claim to protect, the irony of the decision within the current circumstances the Arab world is absolutely ridiculous.

  

    Hundreds of thousands of infiltrators have smuggled their way into Middle Eastern countries, whether to take part in the Godly war against imperialism and infidelity; whether to help fellow warriors by sending conjugal services performed by female mujaaheeden; or whether to assist fellow Arabs and believers by smuggling weapons, money and drugs and use such resources for extortion and black mailing. These border breaching phenomenon is not limited to the Arab world, as only last week did the Spanish authorities reveal the large number of expats living in Spain who left the European continent for good to fight the Syrian war. This is not to mention the thousands of mujahidden that infiltrated into Syria from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. So the question remains: how did these fighters get in? Did they devise a new transportation strategy where they can disappear into thin area, cross borders in their transparent form, and then find themselves in these countries? Do they mask their true identity behind secular outfits and attitudes and arrive as rich tourists or concerned journalists? Have Arab countries and their border-control officials not yet honed their vigilance skills and are still unable to control and protect their frontiers? The Polish case proves otherwise though, with every border control official on high alert for this honour and chastity number one danger and the threats she poses on the general well-being of Arab citizens. What about Tunisian women who were sent to Syria to help “release some tension” from the mujahideen; did they pose no threat? Why did not anyone stop them from coming in?

    

     I say let her in. Let this investigator with a clear mission achieve her goal of sexual experimentation and result dissemination. We may benefit from what she has to share. After all, one is free to take on her offer or not and read her findings or not. Perhaps our ministries of interior and border control departments should focus instead on protecting their citizens from terrorists cells and proxy warriors who have so far brought nothing but division, destruction, instability, injustice, backwardness, hatred, loss of faith and every worldly excuse to label the Arab region as the center of all irrational behaviour. Let her instead...some sex won’t hurt.

*In every reference to jihaad or mujahideen, what is meant is the proxy warriors who mask their true interests, ideologies and objectives with slogans of religious affiliation and liberation of oppression. It is no way a reference to the true conviction of a small minority of religious duty.

The Syrian War

     The current civil war in Syria is in no doubt fuelled by many factors and has its roots dug deep in the history of the troubled region. The long established regime of Al Assad clan and the authoritarian iron grip of power has enjoyed less and less fans from national, regional and international stakeholders. Yes, stakeholders. One cannot deny that what happens at one's backyard will have an immediate effect on one's own home, especially given the state of globalization and interconnection of the world. A troubled Syria does cause problems for its immediate neighbours (mainly Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey) and its neighbours located further away such as Russia, and those located furthest away such as the USA and China. We are all connected, and we should therefore all be concerned. Going back to the reasons behind the conflict, some factors can be mentioned:

• Dire economic conditions suffered by the Syrian people as a result of the international financial crisis and accentuated by the sanctions placed on the country by the USA.
• The wave of democratization and revolution that spread across the Arab world, which motivated and empowered the Syrians to rise against their authorities.
• The growing impatience of the USA and Isreal over Syria's relations with a nuclear Iran, with a growing Hezbollah and popular Hamas.
• The Russian-American struggle over hegemony in the region.
• Pipeline politics, where Syria refused to sign an agreement in 2009 with Qatar that would run a pipeline from Qatar, through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and on to Turkey, with a view to supply European markets as it would negatively effect Russia's supply of natural gas to Europe. The following year, Assad pursued negotiations for an alternative $10 billion pipeline plan with Iran, across Iraq to Syria, that would also potentially allow Iran to supply gas to Europe from its South Pars field shared with Qatar. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the project was signed by in July 2012 - just as Syria's civil war was spreading to Damascus and Aleppo.

These factors all came together beautifully 2 years ago when the uprising commenced in Syria. What started as a peaceful national movement demanding political change and reform, soon transformed into a trans-national crisis with international actors playing a part in the conflict each for their own interest. It is no longer a question of democratic reform, a chemical weapon abuse against civilians, a matter of human and civil rights: it is purely a mixture of economic interests and international political leadership calculations. It is no secret that the US, and some European allies such as Britain and France, have intended to destablize the country for the very same reasons mentioned above, and an excuse to intervene – the chemical gas red line – militarly is but another step taken towards reshaping the country's political make-up and molding the region's regimes according to the interests of economic and political leaders in the USA, Europe, Russia, China, Iran and the oil-rich gulf. To make matters worse, the slafist appeal to the younger Arab and Muslim generation, Al Qaeda's growth, the Shiite militia's excellent organisation under the tutelage of Iran and the christian-muslim, shiite-sunni division are also playing a role in deepening the crisis, and again, each acting to serve one's proper interests.

Bashar Al Assad has been the scapegoat, so was Sadam Hussein, and both were/are evil men who gave the world an excuse to turn a blind eye to the hypocrites, imperialism and double standards of the international community. The only victim in this power play is the Syrian people...especially when many got to the point where the choice between “the evil of the lesser evil” became a real and only choice.