Before the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, there were 30 gyms in Baghdad. Now there are over 300. As in many American gayborhoods, Baghdad gyms are all-male, with protein supplements for sale, walls lined with mirrors and workout music blaring. Iraqis have typically indulged in fattening diets and sedentary lifestyles — exercise has never been so en vogue.

But while business is up as much as 80% since 2003, the owner of a gym called The Hummer worries the popularity of this gym fad could be leveling off. (One would think that someone who owns an all-male gym named after a slang term for “blowjob” would realize that the single biggest threat to work-out culture is not fad feebleness but rather the nation’s fun new hobby of tracking gay people down and murdering them.) The upside is that this Westernization may just help the country’s citizens realize that if protein supplements are cool with Allah, then so are cumsicles.

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Iraqis don’t jog or spin, but fitness clubs are in (Breitbart)