Take Your Secret Saudi Threats and Shove ’em

Calgary Sun/QMI Agency ^ | September 20, 2011 | Ezra Levant

[Leigh Patrick Sullivan]

Saudi Arabia has hired lawyers to threaten Canadian broadcasters who dare to run a TV ad critical of Saudi conflict oil.

I know this because I am the volunteer chairman of EthicalOil.org, the non-profit website that promotes Canada’s oilsands as an ethical alternative to the conflict oil of Saudi Arabia and other OPEC dictatorships.

Alykhan Velshi, who runs EthicalOil.org, produced a 30-second TV ad comparing the treatment of women in Canada with the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia. That’s a place where women can’t drive, can’t vote and can’t even get medical care without the permission of their husbands/owners.

Compare that to Canada, where the mayor of the oilsands capital, Fort McMurray, is a young woman named Melissa Blake.

[Little Ray]

Well, to be fair, I don't think men can vote in Saudi Arabia, either. Something about it being a “divine right monarchy.”

Other than that, Riyadh would be greatly improved by a few radioactive craters. It would be a fair return for the "Fifteen of the Nineteen" and all those Wahhabi mosques and madrassahs that they've inflicted on the rest of the world.

[Clive]

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[fanfan]

Thanks for the ping, Clive.