16 November, 2005

Awful comments

I refuse to answer this abhorrence any more, so if anyone else would like to, be my guest. The subject is the Women's Shelter in Dubai.

I fully admit that I have a limited understanding of the Quran, but to claim that the battered women's shelter "encourages" women to "rebel" and is basically a front for a brothel is just libellous and sick.

So any learned scholars wanting to take this guy on - or just anyone who thinks he's wrong - be my guest.
Posted by secretdubai at 4:44 pm

7 comments:

CG said...

Reading that post on Sharla and her shelter made me sick to my stomach. I cannot believe the heartless things that have been written about her and her work. Never in my life have I known such a compassionate woman. She puts so much effort into her 'work' and gets nothing back except exhaustion and the satisfaction that she may have made some progress through her time. Everyone I know who knows Sharla has donated time, money and their old stuff to be re-sold to support the villa. They are far from being loaded, believe me.

16 November, 2005 19:02
secretdubai said...

I don't even know her and it sickened me. Maybe because I come from a place where domestic violence has been longer in the media spotlight, but the way someone could deny it, write such awful slurs about the people trying to help victims, just disgusted me.

It is a pity that the commenter could not go and meet Sharla for himself, and learn some truth and humility.

16 November, 2005 19:22
CG said...

I would just delete the entire post and this too and not give the commentor anymore opportunity to spread these vile lies.

16 November, 2005 20:44
secretdubai said...

I would rather not delete my actual post, but there is a function in Blogspot to disable future comments, so I'll do that, and delete or hide the existing comments.

16 November, 2005 21:29
Al Mulhama, The Inspired said...

Where is the article, I'd love to sink my teeth in it please!

Couldn't find it. (or am cross eyed!)

17 November, 2005 18:02
secretdubai said...

It should still be there, but I hid and disabled comments.

The guy has also starting spamming abusive messages about the Sharla lady to another entry - but he's so stupid that it's a really old entry about something totally unconnected, so no one would have seen it. I've deleted all those comments anyway.

He kept revealing the actual address. I'm considering getting a friend to try and help me trace his IP, in which case it could be used in a defamation action against him, if necessary.

He's basically someone who believes all women are whores, men should beat them, and it is not a shelter but a brothel. All of which he justifies with plenty of religious phrases and invocations to Allah.

Not a very nice type!

17 November, 2005 18:24
samuraisam said...

aww. it was actually fun having someone that was so easy to make fun of ):

18 November, 2005 17:12

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