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Ex-wife's revenge on Saudi King
The Times ^
| June 14, 2005
| Helen Nugent
Posted on 06/13/2005 10:37:58 PM PDT by MadIvan
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I'm not sure I want to look inside the House of Saud.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
06/13/2005 10:37:58 PM PDT
by
MadIvan
To: Deetes; Barset; fanfan; LadyofShalott; Tolik; mtngrl@vrwc; pax_et_bonum; Alkhin; agrace; ...
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posted on
06/13/2005 10:38:20 PM PDT
by
MadIvan
(You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
To: MadIvan
Were it not for oil, these people would still be squatting beside the camel trail to relieve themselves.
To: MadIvan
Under Islamic law, men may take four wives. Sheesh. Just one wife is gonna be the death of me.
To: martin_fierro; MadIvan
Muslims do not have wives in the western sense. In their culture, women are chatel and have a status slightly above that of a dog. They are property in the same sense that a slave is property. Among the muslim royal houses in the middle east women are used as tokens to establish aliances among tribes and clans.
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posted on
06/13/2005 11:13:23 PM PDT
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: MadIvan
I've never used the term "Saudi" Arabia, just Arabia - why justify putting a bandit chief's family in charge by using their name when referring to the country?
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posted on
06/13/2005 11:17:28 PM PDT
by
decal
(Where were YOU when AndyScam broke? Sluthering, perhaps?)
To: MadIvan
So, is he dead? Not dead? I can't keep track.
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posted on
06/13/2005 11:17:36 PM PDT
by
Tony in Hawaii
(Lookin' for the joke with a microscope)
To: MadIvan
The Abdul Aziz
The largest yacht ever built at a staggering 482 feet, the Abdul Aziz is the personal yacht of the Saudi King Fahd. In 1984 it cost $109 million to build.
For security reasons, information about the yacht's amenities is scarce, but we do know that the Abdul Aziz features 60 guest rooms, two swimming pools, a hospital, an intensive care unit, a gym, a sauna, hand-carved marble baths andfor security reasonsStinger surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles.
The yacht is docked in Antibes, in the basin of Grand Plaisance, and she's easy to spot: Just look for the boat with the helicopter parked on her bow.
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posted on
06/13/2005 11:36:38 PM PDT
by
Daaave
(More human, than human®.)
To: Cacique
With all the multiple wives and children through the years the whole damn country must be related.
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posted on
06/13/2005 11:42:57 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
To: Cacique
Muslims do not have wives in the western sense. In their culture, women are chatel and have a status slightly above that of a dog.
And the West does not have husbands in the classical sense, the wife can leave the husband at anytime and take with the kids, the house, all the property, bank accounts and make the husband a financial slave, through child-support and alimony, for the rest of the ex-husband's life.
And no, I am NOT being sarcastic.
To: MadIvan
I was going to say with his fortune he can well afford to throw her a few quid, with a gagging order.
But then 145 wives equals quite a sizeable chunk of change in alimony. Perhaps he shouldn't have, erm, pitched a tent under his kaftan quite so frequently! ;-)
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posted on
06/14/2005 1:22:28 AM PDT
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
To: MadIvan
Her last name is Harb? I thought "Harb" in Arabic meant "war," as in dar al-harb, "the abode of war."
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posted on
06/14/2005 1:34:04 AM PDT
by
Otho
To: Paul C. Jesup
For some reason, what the feminist have accomplished here in this country, is evil, immoral and goes contrary to the will of God and the Bible.
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posted on
06/14/2005 1:57:50 AM PDT
by
Prophet in the wilderness
(PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
To: MadIvan
Didn't King Fahd die recently?
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posted on
06/14/2005 4:01:17 AM PDT
by
Conservative Infidel
(How come they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot them??)
To: MadIvan
According to a leading Arabic academic, who did not wish to be named, the wives usually each take a private residence in Saudi Arabia and are habitual travellers. Things that make you go hmmmm.....
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posted on
06/14/2005 4:02:28 AM PDT
by
Desdemona
(Music Librarian and provider of cucumber sandwiches, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary. Hats required.)
To: Otho
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posted on
06/14/2005 4:09:11 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(De gustibus non est disputandum)
To: MadIvan
No offense to anyone, but this woman seems to be a gold digger.
From what I got in the article, she had already received a large sum of money to keep her mouth quiet.
Also, there seemed to have been some indication that she holds "Christian" beliefs. Really? Then why did she marry a Muslim?
Okay............
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posted on
06/14/2005 4:16:28 AM PDT
by
Preachin'
(Georgia finally saw the light in 2000.)
To: Mind-numbed Robot
I've always said inbreeding is what makes them all so crazy.
To: Happygal
This dude doesn't have to go to Heaven to get his 72 virgins.
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posted on
06/14/2005 4:41:39 AM PDT
by
norge
To: martin_fierro
Sheesh. Just one wife is gonna be the death of me. An Air Force comrde of mine was flying supplies into Somalia when the plane had an in flight emergency and they diverted to Egypt. Stuck there for a few days, he went to see the sights. While on a tour to Giza, he began discussing Islam with the tour guide, because he had never met a Muslim before. He asked the guy how ,many wives he had, and the guy says, "One wife! One wife! Any man has more than one wife is CRAZY MAN!"
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posted on
06/14/2005 6:06:35 AM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
("Eureka! I just found the gene that causes people to believe in genetic determinism!")
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