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Sexualising everyday life: from Mann to Nabokov to Sheik al-Hilaly.
MY FIRST QUESTION is this: Was the mad mufti right? When Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly said that half-clothed Australian women went around like "exposed meat" inviting rape there was an immediate uproar from all enlightened opinion. Unbelievable! How could anyone say such a thing? Shock-horror was general, and the ugly imagery confirmed a growing suspicion that our Islamic leadership is stuck in the Dark Ages.
But it's less clear that the sheik was entirely wrong. Perhaps he could even be seen as a kind of messenger bringing bad news. What he was complaining about, if we're honest, was a process that has been going on so long, and has now gone so far, that it has ...
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