"Forgive me, but speaking as a girl I honestly believe that GIRL POWER! is something worth defending. It ist the Taliban's treatment of women, mass murder of Gay, Lesbian Bi Trans and Christian people and other Nazi like behaviour against which we have the so-called civilised world MUST take some sort of principled stand. Violent, oppressive Religious fanatacism must not be allowed to prevail."
woah! check out GLBT and Christians lumped together as a group in need of protection!
and for the important news...
Spice Girls: Exactly the Reason Why Bin Laden Hates the West
"On October 6, the BBC reported that former Spice Girl, Geri Haliwell, had entertained British troops performing military exercises in Oman. Accompanying the report on the BBC's website, was a full color picture of Geri performing in a halter-top and hotpants flanked by a number of female dancers clad in bikinis that used the British Union Jack as the motif for the top part of their outfits covering their breasts. Interesting choice of design; the Queen must be delighted at the show's producer's taste in fashion."
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"As the British might put it, the event must have been "top drawer" - that is, if you're a British soldier."
"If you are a practicing Muslim however, the event was yet another reminder of why Westerners often aren't welcome in the Muslim world. And if you are a terrorist - using religion to justify your acts of destruction - that event was confirmation that fighting the West is truly a jihad (struggle). In fact, Osama Bin Laden is probably in some mountain fortress right now, handing out copies of the report while preaching to his minions about the decadence of the West and how it has once again visited the Arabian Peninsula in its most impudent form."
Full article at: "Spice Girls: Exactly the Reason Why Bin Laden Hates the West" http://www.islamonline.org/English/ArtCulture/2001/10/article4.shtml