I guess he’s more of an Android fan.

Update: MEMRI notes that this appeared on a channel owned by Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who is also a major shareholder in Apple.

Saudis caught with their pants down

Saudi authorities are investigating how Israeli pencils reached one of the kingdom’s biggest retail chains. The Kravitz chain, which markets the pencils in Israel, was surprised to hear about the affair stirring up the Gulf kingdom.

It turns out that Abu Rialin, a Saudi chain which offers all of its items for two riyals, is selling one of Kravitz’s most popular products – a set of 12 pencils with an eraser.

The pencils are sold with the Kravitz logo in Hebrew and without any attempt to conceal the fact that they are made in Israel.

Kravitz learned about the incident following a report published by Saudi website Jazan. The reporter noted that Kravitz was the biggest manufacturer of office supplies in Israel and asked how the Saudi Ministry of Commerce could overlook such a thing.

“Where are the Saudi kingdom’s supervision authorities?” the reporter asks, calling for an investigation into the apparent marketing of an Israeli product in Saudi Arabia.

While in Israel the pencils are sold for NIS 4.90 ($1.30), in Saudi Arabia they cost only NIS 2 (53 cents).

“I really don’t understand it, because they leave the factory with that price,” says Kravitz CEO Menashe Zilka. “We haven’t had any break-ins and I checked with our distributors. No one has heard anything, no one knows anything.”

The reporter noted that he had tried to investigate the incident himself, but failed to solve the mystery.

Kravitz is also finding it difficult to explain how its pencils showed up in Saudi Arabia. One of the assumptions is that an entrepreneur or salesperson unlinked to the company bought a stock of pencils and managed to reach the Saudi chain.

“We don’t export. All the items we manufacture are distributed in the local market, so I don’t understand how they reached an Arab country,” says Zilka.

I’m just pissed they are getting them way cheaper than us.

It’s time to stop giving a pass to all these orgs on the nature of Sharia. If they choose not to find out what Sharia really is when the research is so easy to do, it’s because they’re covering up for it. It’s EXACTLY the same as the “laws” described in this passage from The Times in 1935:

“The best to be said of the new laws is that they may offer ——-  the process of law in place of arbitrary bullying and local tyranny.”

Can you guess which ethnic minority I crossed out in that passage? Do you know the name of the “legal system” that article is about? Been to any good rallies lately?

Why should we afford Sharia any more or less legitimacy than that other “legal system”? It’s obvious that it’s the supreme law of all Muslim lands (they only vary in the extent to which they ignore its more annoyingly embarrassing parts).

To think that Sharia is a legal system such as ours is the same mistake as to think that Islam is a religion as we know what a religion is.

Same mistake with the same evil consequences. Oh and Sharia has murdered many more than 6,000,000 to date and it’s still going.

For the full Times article that quote that comes from, see here.

Repealing a ban on women drivers in Saudi Arabia would result in ‘no more virgins’, the country’s religious council has warned.

A ‘scientific’ report claims relaxing the ban would also see more Saudis – both men and women – turn to homosexuality and pornography.

The startling conclusions were drawn by Muslim scholars at the Majlis al-Ifta’ al-A’ala, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, working in conjunction with Kamal Subhi, a former professor at the King Fahd University.

Their report assessed the possible impact of repealing the ban in Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world where women are not allowed behind the wheel.

It was delivered to all 150 members of the Shura Council, the country’s legislative body.

The report warns that allowing women to drive would ‘provoke a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce’.

Within ten years of the ban being lifted, the report’s authors claim, there would be ‘no more virgins’ in the Islamic kingdom.

And it pointed out ‘moral decline’ could already be seen in other Muslim countries where women are allowed to drive.

In the report Professor Subhi described sitting in a coffee shop in an unnamed Arab state.

‘All the women were looking at me,’ he wrote. ‘One made a gesture that made it clear she was available… this is what happens when women are allowed to drive.’

The astonishing report comes after Shaima Jastaniya, a 34-year-old Saudi woman, was sentenced to 10 lashes with a whip after being caught driving in Jeddah.

There has been strong protest in the country about the sentence – and about the law generally.

But resistance to reform and change remains strong among conservative

Brings new meaning to the term “Red light district.”

Meanwhile, for my Saudi readers, here’s some footage women that may..ehh..drive you wild with desire.

Women with sexy eyes in Saudi Arabia may be forced to cover them up, according to the spokesperson of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) in the conservative Gulf kingdom.

Spokesman of the Ha’eal district, Sheikh Motlab al-Nabet said the committee has the right to stop a women whose eyes seem “tempting” and order her to cover them immediately.

Saudi women are already forced to wear a loose black dress and to cover their hair and in some areas, their face, while in public or face fines or sometimes worse, including public lashings.

And if you think the Committee’s methods are harsh, it gets worse.

The announcement came days after the Saudi newspaper al-Watan reported that a Saudi man was admitted to a hospital after a fight with a member of the committee when he ordered his wife to cover her eyes. The husband was then stabbed twice in the hand.

Saudi Arabia’s religious police saved a family that had suffered from psychological and health problems because of a magic spell cast by their housemaid before departing from the Gulf Kingdom.

In a report from the capital Riyadh, a newspaper said the family plunged into endless problems just after the departure of their Asian maid. But its members restored normal life once the spell was found and neutralized by experts.

The spell was wrapped in a small old piece of paper carrying unreadable language and hidden inside a deserted bathroom adjoining their house,  the Arabic language daily Sabq said.

“When the spell was found, the family realized that it was he cause of all their sudden troubles,” the paper said.

It quoted relatives as saying the spell had prompted the wife of the elder son to abandon him and live with her parents while the mother started to suffer from trances and nightmares. Another son suddenly had mental problems.

The paper said the family took the spell to the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which has an anti-magic section.

“There, the Commission experts dismantled the spell and destroyed all its contents, using Koran verses…once they did so, the mother fell unconscious and when she woke up later, she felt much better…the son who had mental problems said he does not remember he had any,” the paper said.

“The family then took the elder son to his wife’s parents and asked for her return….the family was surprised that the wife and her parents welcomed the idea and she did return to her husband.”

(hat tip: Mick Hartley)

New hotness: Saudi prince offering a $1,000,000 reward to anyone who kidnaps an Israeli soldier.

Saudi Prince Khaled bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud declared Saturday he would give $900,000 to whoever abducts an Israeli soldier in order to be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners.

In an interview with Saudi TV, bin Talal stressed that his offer was in response to a similar offer made by a Saudi cleric who earlier this week said he would give $100,000 to anyone who would kidnap an Israeli soldier.

“Al-Qarni offered $100,000 to whoever abducts (an Israeli soldier) and I say to him – I sympathize with you and am offering $900,000 to put the figure at $1 million,” he said.

I wish those Saudi royals would stick to what they apparently do best.

He may look like a friendly guy (or at least someone trying to impress the ladies on some Muslim dating site). But he’s not. In fact, he’s a real nasty piece of work.

Saudi cleric Dr. Awad al-Qarni is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who kidnaps Israeli soldiers. He is responding to an ad published by the Libman family offering a similar reward for anyone who catches the person who murdered their relative Shlomo Libman.

Libman was killed by terrorists near the settlement of Yitzhar in 1998.

“The press reported that the Zionist settlers will pay huge amounts of money to whoever kills the freed Palestinian prisoners,” al-Qarni said. “In response to these criminals I declare to the world that any Palestinian who will jail an Israeli soldier and exchange him for prisoners will be rewarded with a $100,000 prize,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

Al-Qarni’s post has already received more than 1,000 likes and extensive coverage in Hamas-affiliated newspapers in Gaza.

Here’s his Facebook page for those who can read Arabic or otherwise like looking at meaningless squiggly lines all over the place.

Actually, this isn’t the first time Al-Qarni has sprouted hatred on Facebook. In fact, his page was deleted last year – presumably because he was using it to spread hatred, like this fatwa calling for attacks on Jewish and American interests all over the world. Of course, this didn’t stop some from rallying to have his account reinstated, with this joker even claiming Al-Qarni “has always been a moderate preacher, with moderate thoughts and belief in Islam.” But at some stage, his page was either reinstated or he simply created a new one.

Here’s hoping Al-Qarni joins his crown prince really soon.

Bonus: Her name is Barbi (well, sort of).

Minister of Defense Ehud Barak has approved a series of high-ranking appointments made by IDF Chief of General Staff, Lt. General Benny Gantz.

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Brigadier General Orna Barbivay will be promoted to the rank of Major General and appointed Head of the Personnel Directorate, replacing Major General Avi Zamir, who will end his service in the IDF. She had filled the number two slot in the Directorate until now, as Directorate Chief of Staff.

In 2005 Barbivay made history when she was appointed to head the Adjutant Corps. She was the first woman in the IDF’s history to head a corps other than the Women’s Corps.

In others female-related Middle East news, Saudi Arabian women demanding the right to drive have been arrested and threatened with beatings.

Now, thanks to Firas Press, we have more details.

[warning: Dodgy-at-times auto-translation]

Media said that the Saudi security forces have arrested an Israeli eagle is likely to be an agent for the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, had been spying after flying in Saudi airspace, before injury forced him to get off near the home of a Saudi sheik.

And managed some of the Saudi citizens in the region of Hail “arrested” on the Eagle spy after falling from a house near forced a Senate in the region.

Saudi authorities have revealed that the Israeli eagle was carrying under his wings and legs of some metal bracelets, and a commentator on his body, in addition to the file number in the offices of the Mossad. 

The spy is unveiled after the bird that chased Saudiyon citizens and were able to catch because he was suffering from an injury, as well as for devices that were weighing metal wings, which require specialized tarmac by up to 30 meters.

And according to the newspaper “Maariv” Israel, have been found in the body of the eagle on the transmitter “LG. Me. S “and also found a bracelet on the books by the University of Tel Aviv.

Have been handed the bird to Saudi security, which doubts, to have this bird a client in a “Mossad,” Israel, and that his presence in Saudi Arabia is linked to the task of espionage, in particular that when attempts to arrest him was defending itself in a way appear highly trained, where he was called out of his mouth small pieces of metal were published smell and then pick them back. – As media reports said.

However, the Nature Protection Authority of Israel, which confirmed the presence of this eagle in Saudi airspace, denied that the transmitter is located on the body of the eagle with the purposes of espionage, but to find out his whereabouts, only, has also confirmed that this eagle was caught in Israel in 2008, and has been trained and maintain him until he reached the age of six years.

And according to Saudi newspapers, the process of arrest and fishing eagle “spy” working for the Mossad is the second of its kind in Saudi Arabia and in a short period. – As press sources said.

Meanwhile, here are the first photos of the “Mossad agent’s” apprehension

Notice the look of determination on the Saudi man’s face. He believes he’s just caught the Israeli James Bond. Our Ace Vultura, if you will.

I hate to break it to the Saudis, but it looks very much like a regularly tagged vulture. And if you don’t believe me, see here for similar photos.

But they should feel free to launch an investigation into this latest Zionist outrage. Heck, I can even recommend someone to lead it.

Bird brains.