I don't see this as Siouxsie lashing out against Arab culture in general, but at the way women in the Arab world are sometimes treated. Siouxsie has never struck me as a racist person, but I could see how an assertive and intelligent Western woman like Siouxsie would be disgusted and upset by the abuses many women in Arabic countries suffer. However, I am not sure that this is all this song is really about in a thematic sense. SatB songs tend to have more complex meanings than what appears on the surface. "Hong Kong Garden" has been called a racist song, for example, but the truth is that it is exactly the opposite.
I don't see this as Siouxsie lashing out against Arab culture in general, but at the way women in the Arab world are sometimes treated. Siouxsie has never struck me as a racist person, but I could see how an assertive and intelligent Western woman like Siouxsie would be disgusted and upset by the abuses many women in Arabic countries suffer. However, I am not sure that this is all this song is really about in a thematic sense. SatB songs tend to have more complex meanings than what appears on the surface. "Hong Kong Garden" has been called a racist song, for example, but the truth is that it is exactly the opposite.