CNN: “Some Muslim men told Coppejans their decision was in reference to the Prophet Muhammad, who is believed to have dyed his hair as well. Some men had just returned from Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.”
* I see the henna-bearded types (henna barbarians?) pretty often here in NYC. To my dirty kafir eyes, they look mentally ill.
* My wife, who was a nurse for a while in the Asia, said that even though Muslim women from the Middle East who were treated at her hospital were dressed head to toe in long black robes, underneath, they wore very bright, colorful underclothes.
* How long before we realize that Saudi Arabia is the real enemy and go after them? If US forces were to seize the major oil fields on the Arabian peninsula, for instance, we could eventually turn them over to a series of small Shia ruled emirates along the coast that we could set up much like the British did (didn’t they?) in the 19th century. The security of these small political statelets would of course be guaranteed by US forces in the region, which would give us the necessary leverage to control their behavior. Such a “Trumpist” foreign policy is not quite as inconceivable as it used to be, is it?
As long as we are thinking outside the box, what about the Sunni areas in eastern Syria and western Iraq? Another Trumpist idea would be to encourage the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan to take them over. Isn’t the Jordanian army the most potent in the region? I know it used to be. And even if it isn’t still we could certainly make it so in reasonably short order. Indeed, we might go further and encourage Jordan to reconquer the holy sites of Mecca and Medina, which it traditionally administered for centuries until the Wahhabi-backed Saudis pushed them out.
This Jordanian option has the advantage that it would kill three birds with one stone:
1. The end of Isis
2. The end of radical Islamic control of the holy sites of Islam
3. A Jordanian kingdom so large that it might be induced to relinquish control of Palestinian areas on the east bank of the Jordan river as part of a future Palestinian state, without which a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in unviable.
The current mess in the Middle East is largely a legacy of the way Britain carved it up when it was still a world power. Maybe it is time for America to carve it up again?
* The Prophet of Allah (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) declared that because the Jews (anguish and damnation be upon them) let their hair go gray, Muslims should colorize their gray hair. However, black dye is not allowed, nor is it allowed to imitate the hair-dyeing habits of kafirs (the immoral people).
Sharia’s intricate rules on hair dyeing are nicely laid out here.
* ESPN has lost 7 million subscribers over the last 2 years. Each subscriber means (via their cable bill) almost $80/year in revenue for Disney, which owns ESPN. The $555 million in lost subscription fees doesn’t count lost advertising revenue.
