All Entries Tagged With: "Saudi Arabia"
Saudi Pick-Up Lines
The Muslim News reports on the phenomenom of “flirtatious taxi drivers [who] get on women’s nerves.”
And with pick-up lines like this, it’s no wonder why.
More often than not women find that the driver wants to flirt and sometimes makes disgusting advances.
Sana M, a mother of a teenage girl, recounts experience once when she was traveling [...]
Grand Mufti of Hate
Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti and ZZ Top impersonator Abdelaziz al-Sheikh doesn’t think the Saudi government’s idea to invite Jews to a conference on interreligious dialogue has any legs.
So to speak.
Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti Abdelaziz al-Sheikh has rejected an attempt by the government to open interreligious dialogue with Jewish rabbis (as opposed to Christian rabbis, I [...]
Saudi Marries Off His Daughter, 15, to a Murderer
An unbelievably sick story out of Saudi Arabia, reported impassively by Arab News:
RIYADH, 18 March 2008 — Muhammad Al-Zahrani, a convicted murderer, was executed at the end of February in Taif. Al-Zahrani’s execution, which was postponed for four years, took place after the victims’ family refused to pardon him.However, what makes Al-Zahrani’s case interesting is [...]
Finding Niemöller
First they came for men who dig camels, but I prefer my partners with less humps so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the men who dig women…
Saudi Arabia began interrogating 57 men Saturday who were arrested after allegedly flirting with women in front of a shopping mall in the holy city of [...]
The Stupidity of the “Smarter Bombs”
Reuters reports:
The United States has agreed in principle to provide Israel with better “smart bombs” than those it plans to sell Saudi Arabia under a regional defense package, senior Israeli security sources said on Sunday.Keen to bolster Middle East allies against an ascendant Iran, the Bush administration last year proposed supplying Gulf Arab states with [...]
Saudi Arabia Doesn’t Consider Palestinian Arabs a Good Investment
The Independent (UK) notes:
Saudi Arabia has so far refused to commit to budget support for the emergency government set up by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a political move casting a shadow over Monday’s international donors’ conference in Paris. [...]
Saudi Ambassador Tells a Whopper of a Lie
From JTA (and also PalPress):
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States rejected recognizing Israel as a Jewish state.”There are 1.5 million civilians in Israel who do not define themselves as Jewish,” Adel al-Jubeir told reporters at the U.S.-convened Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Annapolis, Md.
“We do not believe states should define themselves according to religion [...]
Saudi King Talks Peace, Presents Sword to Pope
One year ago, Pope Benedict XVI inflamed the Muslim world by quoting a Byzantine emperor from 1391 as saying: “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”
The Muslim reaction was, predictably, [...]
Rumsfeld correct on Gulf Arab mentality
Last week a bunch of internal, informal memos written by Donald Rumsfeld were leaked out and caused a minor embarrassment to the White House. In one of them, Rumsfeld wrote that oil wealth has at times detached Muslims “from the reality of the work, effort and investment that leads to wealth for the rest of [...]
Put not your trust in princes
YNet has a provocative editorial by Sever Plocker, arguing for territorial compromise from a purely economic perspective:
Oil-exporting Mideastern countries earned roughly $600 billion from oil and gas exports. In the years 2003-2006, the export revenues of these countries totaled about $2,100 billion.
This year, export revenues of Middle Eastern oil-rich nations will reach another $700 billion; [...]
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