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[miltiades]

While searching www.alexa.com came across a porno site that shall remain anonymous , and I thought I wonder which nations are the most fervent "watchers" of this site. I was amazed that having compiled the top 10 , with the exception of Jamaica all the other 9 are M.Easter countries. What www.Alexa.com does is to compile a list of the 100 most popular sites that nations around the world visit.
Here is the list :

Position. position of porn site out of 100 Nation
1. 14 Egypt !
2. 18 Morocco
3. 39 Palestine
4. 45 Jordan
5. 53 Yemen
6. 60 Turkey
7. 68 Mongolia
8. 74 Jamaica
9. 82 Lebanon
10. 95 Algeria.

Neither China nor India the worlds numericaly largest nations feature here , neither does little old Cyprus or in fact any European nation or the USA. I wonder why this is so.
For instance in Egypt the very polpular youtube is two positions , at 16 , below the porno site.

Any one can verify these figures by visting www.alexa.com.
I ought to state here that I do not have anything against people who enjoy visiting pornographic sites . Would appreciate if the site in question is not posted on the forum.

[pitsilos]

jamaica, can be excused for obvious reasons

but what do the other 9 have in common?

[Sotos]

Thats one site out of 10s of thousands of porn sites. Maybe Arabs prefer that one for some reason we don't know. I guess other sites will have different country rankings. But Miltiades why were you looking at that site?

[miltiades]

Sotos to be perfectly honest I came up on this site quite by accident since the name of it does not give any clues as the contents of the site. I do use alexa.com on a daily basis , and do also take interest in diverse subjects of interest to different people in different parts of the world. There some interesting sites around the world that present a window to that nations preoccupations , interestingly if you look at the top 100 viewed sites in Cyprus you will surprise your self at how similar it is to many European 100 sites and mostly not that close to M.Eastern preferences , hence I picked up on the salacious one .

[LENA]

jamaica, can be excused for obvious reasons

but what do the other 9 have in common?

Why Jamaica can be excused???


As for the rest of them are Muslim countries ... should I go into details about that?? Well I will give you a clue...a Muslim friends of mine from Turkey explain me that their religion forbid them few things...thats why they do watch a lot porno but they dont have sex relationship that much...

[Sotos]

miltiades what do you use Alexa for? I visited that site some times but I didn't find it very useful.

[Sotos]

if you look at the top 100 viewed sites in Cyprus

I had a look at it now: http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites? ... &lang=none it is interesting. Google, Yahoo and MSN are the top 3 sites Cypriots visit. Among the Cypriot sites in the top 100 there are the big newspapers and a lot of sports websites This forum is also in the top 100.

[Murataga]

It is true that Islam is misinterpreted by many nations today and cause suffering and repression rather than peace and salvation. Yet, I still find such posts unnecessarily aggressive and hateful.

In China and India more than 80% of the popuation live under 2$ per day let alone having access to the internet. Cyprus has a population of less than 1 million.

As far as the "high morals" of the EU society goes: do not forget for one day that their wealth and prosperity with some other Western countries is stained with the blood and sweat of millions they enslaved and raped for centuries under colonialism. Read the following and be more careful next time before preaching on European values:

http://english.people.com.cn/200609/02/ ... 99016.html

European religious leaders apologize to Africa for colonialism



Religious representatives from nine European countries on Friday in Harare broke down as they asked for forgiveness from Africans and narrated how their ancestors had pillaged the continent, leading to its underdevelopment and untold suffering of its people.

Addressing Christians and delegates attending the European- African Reconciliation Process Prayer Network in Zimbabwe's capital city of Harare, Chris Seaton, leader of the nine representatives from Britain, France, Germany, America, Austria, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Belgium, said they were in Zimbabwe to apologize on behalf of their ancestors for the sins of the past committed against Africa during colonialism.

He said he had been touched when Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said in 1980 the wrongs of the past must be forgiven and forgotten.

"But up to this time so far no one has come to acknowledge those wrongs from Europe. But today we have come," Seaton said.

The representative each gave accounts of the brutalities and wrongdoings perpetrated in Africa during colonialism before asking for forgiveness. They also discussed slavery, apartheid, the partition of Africa and the plundering of Africa's wealth among other wrongdoings.

Speaking at the same event, former Mozambican president Joachim Chissano blamed colonialism for being largely responsible for Africa's underdevelopment.

"Over many and many years, in international fora, such as the United Nations, the African Union, in churches and other platforms, colonialism has been denounced as a cruel system, largely responsible for an untold degree of suffering of the Africans and for their social and economic underdevelopment," Chissano said.

He said while African countries had recognized that bad governance and corruption were to some extent responsible for slowing growth in the continent, Europeans on the other hand refused to own up to the negative consequences of colonialism on Africa.

It was however heartening to note that the Christian communities in these countries were admitting the negative consequences of colonialism to Africa and were now determined to build bridges and maintain better relations between Africa and Europe, he said.

Chissano said the reconciliatory initiatives being pursued were also symbolic for Zimbabwe, currently suffering the effects of unjust international relations.

He described Zimbabwe's suffering and isolation by the international community as a vivid reminder of colonialism.

"I do hope that this ceremony constitutes an encouragement to the people and government of Zimbabwe, helping them to come together as a united nation, with strength to overcome the challenges their country is faced with today," Chissano said.

He challenged the representatives of the European Christian movement to spread the word of reconciliation across their continent and help repair the damage done by colonialism.

The President of the Chiefs Council Fortune Charumbira said the initiative marked a new beginning in the history of Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole. Charumbira however challenged the European Christian representatives to urge their governments to lift the sanctions they have imposed on Zimbabwe due to its land reform program.

Representatives from at least 24 African nations were present at the conference, which is a follow up to the first one held in Berlin, Germany in November last year.

[Sotos]

As far as the "high morals" of the EU society goes: do not forget for one day that their wealth and prosperity with some other Western countries is stained with the blood and sweat of millions they enslaved and raped for centuries under colonialism.

You are right for that but you are a Turk so it is a "look who is talking" case

[villawagen]

interestingly while i was accidently looking at www.hornygoatlust.com i noticed that cyprus was number one, on its worldwide popularity rating list