Saudi Arabia to Hold Historic Elections

NewsMax ^ | 02-05-05 | Carl Limbacher

[LibKill]

The house of Saud is firmly allied with the wahabists. May they get the Marie Antoinette cure, and soon.

[ClaireSolt]

Lots of candidates, as in Iraq. And, no, women are not voting, yet in SA.

[LibKill]

And, no, women are not voting, yet in SA.

And too bad for Saudi Arabia that they keep half of their brains (the woman half) locked up under a damned burka. However large their population is, it is only 50% effective.

I'd LOVE to see one of these mooks come to Beaumont and tell some Texas woman that she should put on the burka and bow down.

He'd last about 30 seconds. :)

[TASMANIANRED]

A fissure opens.

Like the Soviet Union cracking, you cannot give people a little taste of liberty without awakening a ravenous thirst.

[hosepipe]

Saddam had elections too...
The people mysteriously voted for him enmasse..
Against the shills offered as opponents..

Pretty smart really.. After the election all the dumbest Iraqis that voted against him were ELIMINATED... or jailed and tortured to find any of their "friends"..

Joseph Stalin once said: "It's not who votes, but who counts the votes".. so true, consider Washington State in the U.S. the governors election.. and Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mexifornia, Oregon and New Jersey..(there are others)

One thing is certain Democracy "IS" MOB RULE.... the most powerful MOB WINS.. ALWAYS... Islamic countries were always ruled by MOB RULE.. to this day.. MOBS are what Islamics do best.. and most of western civilization too..

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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. – John Adams (1814)

Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx

[FairOpinion]

But it's a major step in the right direction.

From another article:

"RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - Phone text messages beep candidates' praise, and their pictures are splashed in newspaper ads and on billboards across Saudi Arabia's capital — a surprising scene in a country where the depiction of the human face is considered un-Islamic and the idea of even talking about elections used to be considered taboo.

The country's first nationwide elections, beginning Thursday, are only for local councils, with voters electing half of the councils' members. The elections are part of the kingdom's measured response to calls for reforms.

There are forums where people can discuss social issues away from the control of religious authorities. Candidates' fliers are thrown into open car windows, and brochures are folded into newspapers. Tents have been erected along highways, featuring poets, lectures by experts in municipal services and sumptuous feasts.

One issue largely absent from candidates' pledges is the rights of women. The government has banned them from the polls, but officials have promised they will take part in the second round in 2009."

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3024938

[Larry381]

One woman even called a candidate praising his looks and offering to be a second wife.

For some reason Bill Clinton come to mind.

[montag813]

Free elections Saudi-style means anyone is free to run so long as their surname is "Saud".

[hinckley buzzard]

"... said the AP. "But the ballot is seen as a concrete step in a reform process no one had expected."

The Saudi's announced their intention to hold municipal elections, somewhere about a year ago. This may be a surprise to many but it certainly should NOT be unexpected to the AP. Try to keep up, AP flunkies!

[festus]

Keep in mind that Saddam was routinely elected in a popular election......

Just another Saudi bamboozlin tactic to keep us amused.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

One woman even called a candidate praising his looks and offering to be a second wife.

The unheralded fruits of democracy.

-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)

[GVnana]

I guess it depends on what you call "wife". Some women do it with Bill Clinton.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Excuse me, for a second.SPEEEEWWWW!!!!!

(:

-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)

[nuconvert]

I read about it a few months ago, but lost track when the elections would be.

Thanks for the ping.

[conservlib]

If a regular guy like you can conclude that Wahhabism IS the problem, then DR. Rice/Pres. Bush, and the rest of our government are playing politics with our future.

If I was in charge, I would bring that subject to "public" discussion. Fair minded people can easily understand that in this life there should be reciprocation to good deeds. We allow the Saudis to proselytize in our country, as they forbid us the same. Obviously that is not fair, don't you think?

[MEG33]

"Obviously that is not fair, don't you think?"
I was born during the depression, lived through WW2, saw my first horror pictures in Life magazine when we liberated the camps and read of the Bataan Death March,Japaneses POW horrors.. I could go on and on about "fair"..

Life is not fair and one of the great ironies is that sometimes trying to make it so ends up with millions dying of famine in the Ukraine,or millions dying in China to make all peoples' work equal out of "fairness."

It isn't fair for any religion or race to claim and use our civil rights to the limit in the US and deny those same rights in another country where they dominate..

We will not ever have "fair" in this world...There are those who say we as a rich nation should give large sums money in parts of the world where there is no accountability and much poverty...It is only "fair"..

I say we should be sure it goes for alleviating the problems targeted instead of propping up greedy pols..It is only fair.
Diplomacy is not something I admire or understand many times, though I can see the need..Sometimes hearts and minds in the larger picture are more important than attacking what the large group may assume is the all of Islam...Tolerance of others who are different is not easy in any religion...Wahhabist clerics are extreme haters.. I have just been reading about the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana during the Al Smith Presidential run..He was a Catholic and it seems that was catalyst for swelling of Klan ranks.. I see intolerance between Catholics and Protestants on this board..(both sides)...Thank God we are not into beheading and blowing up each other..We can discuss, insult, demean, and make ourselves seem un Christian.. We are fortunate that we are Americans..Some Christians whose churches are burned and family members threatened or killed in other parts of the world might say we have it so good and that it isn't fair.

[MEG33]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1337979/posts
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[MEG33]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1052520/posts
Islam, a Religion of Peace®? Some links

[BushisTheMan]

Unfortunately, I don't think women are being allowed to vote in this election.