You know the phrase ‘an accident waiting to happen’ (which Mel often uses in what is quite frankly a cruel reference to my at times slightly clumsy side, though admittedly she is often the recipient of such klutzy events and bears many a scar), anyway, Lauren Booth was a ‘Muslim waiting to happen’.

Lauren is the sister of Cherie, who is the wife of Tony Blair. Ohhhh, Lauren Booth.

She was divorced from her old hubby and wanted a new one. A muslim one. I have no idea why either, but I’m not a religious person. And if I was I’d probably use my own rather than go looking for someone else’s. But that’s just me.

She in fact advertised for the ‘role’ and in time found her man. Ok, he was married with 3 kids at the time but heh, this is about religious fervour, this is the ‘will of God’, and will not be denied. Not for mere decency or morality.

She immediately took to wearing a headscarf, which, if you’ll forgive me, always looks rather odd on Caucasians, but there ya go.

And now her daughters from her first marriage wear the hijab too. And its all about comfort.

Her girls were ‘uncomfortable’ with 10 year-old schoolgirl talk of boys and pop idols and relationships and dildos and group sex with animals and the usual pre-teeny stuff, so now attend a muslim school, wear a scarf and are thus protected from such discomfort. The scarf presumably works like some kind of holy filter on conversations. The question as to whether it might be acceptable for little girls to ‘lurve’ Ryan Gosling and Harry Styles and David Cassidy and me is not relevant. So stick on a headscarf and achieve instant comfort.

Brilliant.

But what about the Muslim clerics (18 of them thus far) who agreed to marry 14 year old girls to much older men even in what can only be described as ‘forced marriages’? How ‘bout them? Does Lauren reckon that might make those children more comfortable too?

Or how about the great new law just passed in Iran which now allows children to marry their step-fathers. How’s that on the comfort scale??

It is argued that rather than a sign of oppression, the scarves and veils are actually about freedom, about feminism.

Feminism my nob!

 

But who needs all that shit. When you can go to Wales.

What a fantastic place Wales is. See the pic. Wales is all like that. Just brilliant. So now I no longer have to ask the question ‘what is Wales for?’ because I know. Its not just a place to provide singers and rugby players and third rate football teams, nor just a place where man and sheep can live in harmony, nor just for the production of coal as Maggie shut the pits decades ago. Wales is a thing of extreme beauty. And the Welsh, for a bunch of foreigners, are really friendly people who live in proper houses and everything. Like real people. I would recommend it but then it’d be full of scuzzy seasiders next time we go instead of quiet and peaceful and wonderful.

 

Happy tuesday

 

A xxxx