Posted on 02/05/2016 2:58:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
Women told to send in their drivers instead
Saudi Arabia’s religious police barred women from entering a Starbucks coffee shop after a gender-separating wooden wall collapsed many times under customer stampedes, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Women going to the café in the capital Riyadh were surprised to find a board placed at the door, telling them to keep out of the place.
The Arabic language daily 'Al Weaam' said the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most influential law enforcing authority in the conservative Gulf Kingdom, ordered the café’s management not to admit women.
It said the commission issued the order after its members, who were on a routine inspection in the market, found that the gender-separation wall ordered by authorities for all restaurants and other shops has collapsed.
It said the management told the cops that the wall has collapsed many times because of persistent stampedes by the customers.
According to the paper, the board read: "On order by the Commission… please no women allowed in… women can send in their drivers to buy for them.â€
The women could just use the drive-thru . . . oh wait . .
Women BARRED, not BARED.
Koranimals allow cattle into their stores in koranimal countries?
Sheep?
What?
I know there is a language barrier here, as well as cultural inponderables, but might there not be a better way to explain how the "wall" kept getting knocked down?
Shoddy construction?
What?
There you go.
Explains perfectly why women can no longer enter...
LOL!
Boy those Saudis nailed it. The road to perdition for a woman starts when she is first tempted to drink that cup of coffee.
What’s the big deal? [sarcasm] The women can send in their drivers. We KNOW they must have male drivers, because women are not allowed to drive! Of course, women who are just walking by may be out of luck.
Excellent
“Moderate” Muslims
Why won't Starbucks threaten to stop doing business in Saudi Arabia until they start treating their female patrons with respect?
The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam
John Quincy Adams on Islam
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).
Why are the customers stampeding? Caffeine overload?
How about writing “Genders Together” on all the cups.
This calls for a world-wide boycott of Starbucks for their failure to support women’s rights!
So where is my bacon and egg croissant?
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
There are some countries that are just not worth doing business with.
so Starbucks is discriminating against gender?
Guess they will now be racist when the local culture demands?
Being a prostitute for hire comes to mind....
Forget coffee, try feeding them hay and grass.
For years liberals screamed about Apartheid in South Africa. Funny how they are silent about the gender apartheid in Saudi Arabia. Liberals are the biggest hypocrites.
What a garbage dump of a country SA is.
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