Posted on 02/11/2011 12:53:11 PM PST by robowombat
Is Queen Rania the Next Target of Middle Eastern Violence? Posted by Sasha Brown-Worsham on February 9, 2011 at 1:25 PM Comments (4)| Likes (5) Share 18
Queen Rania of Jordan is undoubtedly an international celebrity. Most of this is due to her marked beauty and taste for fine things. But her lavish lifestyle may soon come to end as Jordan is showing some signs that it could be the next Egypt or Tunisia.
Recent revolts, like the ones that took out Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and currently threaten Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, have been played out on the news all over the world. Many of us are watching with unease as the violence and chaos seem to spread.
Recent criticism of Queen Rania raises fears that perhaps Jordan will be next. The criticism of the "corruption" of the royal family and Rania, in particular, breaks with the taboo in the country where speaking against the royal family is punishable by a three-year prison sentence. According to AFP News:
"We call on the king to return to the treasury land and farms given to the Yassin family (of the queen). The land belongs to the Jordanian people," 36 tribal leaders said this week in a joint statement. By so doing, they have broken a taboo in the desert kingdom.
The tribes are no small faction, either. They are nearly 40 percent of Jordan's population and are crucial in terms of politics and stability, according to the AFP. "Their loyalty to the Hashemite ruling family has been crucial in times of crises in the past century."
What this means, only time will tell, but one thing is clear: it's scary.
"The events in Tunisia and Egypt have given courage to Jordanians to publicly say what they have been whispering about for a while," a political analyst told AFP on condition of anonymity. Arab peoples used to fear their authoritarian regimes. "Things have changed and now Arab leaders fear their peoples."
Queen Rania, the wife of King Abdullah II who serves as the head of a constitutional monarchy in which the King has a lot of power, has specifically been criticized for many reasons. These include her lavish lifestyle and her commitment to helping Palestinians come into the country, something many Jordanians fear will make Jordan a temporary homeland for Palestinians. According to Reuters:
Jordanian tribal figures have issued a petition urging King Abdullah to end his Palestinian wife's role in politics, in a new challenge to the monarch grappling with fallout from uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
If similar uprisings start in Jordan, there is no telling what could happen or how far this could all spread, but there is no doubt that we should all be paying pretty close attention. The more the unrest and violence spread, the more and more likely it is to affect all of us. Whatever the outcome is and however far it spreads, change is in the air and we all need to be aware.
Are you paying attention to the situation in the Middle East?
Rules. Rules. No Pictures?
I always thought that Rania needs to stop trying to be prominent in her own right. She should be wiht her children, traveling with her husband when he requires it, and mainly being a gracious hostess. The POINT of being a royal wife is to be a gracious hostess and Consort, not jet setting around while your husband goes to state visits. Or meeting with psycho models (Campbell) and posing on a motorcycle. These criticisms in the context of her role are entirely legitimate and she has no business squandering money on plastic surgery nad high fashion.
As for Noor, Noor was stupid to set teh precedent for a a high profile role in a country that takes the role of women as mothers/wives very seriously. Rania is the CONSORT, not the monarch. She has no business getting involved in politics and she’s too interested in the jet set when she should (and this is something I crticize about maxima) be concentrating on her own country. It’s not politically correct, but that’s not the point of royalty.
When the economy crashed, Rania should have cut back traveling and then proceeded to stay within Jordan and start living more austerely. Tribal leaders are strict, some irrational, but in others, logical. They don’t like scandal and they don’t like the West’s values and they are likely the type to get apoplectic when they see the woman who represents their women overseas jet setting. It’s not politically correct, but it’s who they are.
Posting protocol?
Hit it, be seen with it, buy her female products in a checkout, and let her walk all over me.
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A main complaint is that she’s gone jet setting around to places like Ibeza and San Remo.
If the natives go all Marie Antoinette on her ass, they media is going to have to come up with an all new narrative about why we have nothing to fear about the great, peaceful religion of Islam.
Tell me whose who between Queen Rania and Queen Noor, is it?
I thought Noor was the queen to Abdullah.
She’s hot.
She’s also a frothing-at-the-mouth anti-semite, which, while I am not Jewish, is a major turn-off. Dark soul.
Shortly after 9-11, she was on the oprah for a islamic show about how peace loving islam is in real life.
I wonder what lil’ queenie is saying these daze?
Queen Noor was the Consort of (now deceased) King Hussein of Jordan. Noor actually tried to get her son by Hussein named King, over the CURRENT King Abdullah, whose wife is Queen Rania.
That was Queen Noor, not Rania.
She’s more of a jet setter type and interferes in politics. Stuff she has no business interfering in.
Rania is the beauty queen of the mideast.
The sex with goat Muslim Brotherhood creeps don’t like women in general.
The sex with goats Muslim Brotherhood creeps don't like women in general.
Noor was marriesd to King Hussein, Abdullah’s father.
Queen Noor is stepmother to the present King Abdullah.
King Abdullah’s younger half-brother is Queen Noor’s son.
Isn’t she that white girl from the US who married a Middle Eastern Prince (Jordan?) or is that someone else?
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