Letter from Saudi Arabia-Re: how women in Saudi Arabia are treated.

Jerusalem Post ^ | 1-31-8 | H.A.

[Allegra]

Bookmarking...

Internet is HOSED on this side of the world...

[saganite]

LOL! Yeah, I saw your post #3 after I posted my link. Such are the vagaries of posting!

[silverleaf]

Vatican “City” is a “City”, not a country.
Are people allowed to enter Vatican City carrying a Koran? I think so.
Are muslim people allowed to enter Vatican City?
I think so.

Are Christian people allowed to enter Saudi Arabia with a Bible?
I think not.
Are Jews allowed to enter Saudi Arabia?
I think not.

Are any non muslim people allowed to enter Mecca?
I think not.

[kalee]

Yes I do wear an abaya, but we do not necessarily have to cover our hair or faces; again this is a personal and cultural choice.

Without it you risk the old men on the corner flicking acid on you. Tell me again how free you are honey. You choose to do the things your religions demands because the consequences can be ugly.

[Rummyfan]

My advice to you, Caroline, is to befriend a Saudi. This is the best way to get to understand our culture. Or better yet, visit Saudi Arabia.

Caroline Glick, as an Israeli and a woman, would not be allowed to even enter the country.

[libs_kma]

"Internet is HOSED on this side of the world..."

"HOSED" being a technical term?

[Wil H]

Vatican “City” is a “City”, not a country.

It is technically a Sovereign City State, but in practice it is a walled enclave.

It is only 0.17 square miles big! That's just over 100 acres. And it attached to the largest Christian church in the world.

And it's population of 800 are all Catholic. Where the hell are you going to put a Mosque in there and who is going to use it?

The woman is a moron.

[txhurl]

Still hosed? How long till those cables are repaired?

[bmwcyle]

The response from NOW: ....................

[Karliner]

ha ha The response from CAIR...oh yeah, they wrote the letter.

[alexander_busek]

>>This does not jive with what I witnessed while living in Saudi<<

Do you perhaps mean that it does not JIBE with what you witnessed?

“Don’t gimme that jive!”

[Karliner]

Dear Ms anonyHAMASmouse,

I'm a Christian Jew and would very much like you and your family to sponsor me on my first Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca to see that black rock you folks worship...what happened to the 359 other gods that were there by the way? Should my wife wear an abaya...maybe red so it doesn't look stained after the stoning? I'd very much like to consider buying some property fro my Jewish friends, maybe say in Medina? Can I bring my Bibles, my Torah, my kippah? and play Matisyahu in the streets where the sultan don't swing? Awaiting your loving reply,

Baruch atah

Moshe

[EdReform]

Ping

[alexander_busek]

>>Vatican “City” is a “City”, not a country.<<

Um, actually, the Vatican City (Holy See) IS a country.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vt.html

Your welcome!

[Allegra]

Still hosed? How long till those cables are repaired?

I wish I knew. I can get into FR from my room, but none of the other systems on base are allowing it because of the outages. They've blocked access to everything that is not mission-critical.

Oh, well...things have been worse here. ;-)

[Allegra]

"HOSED" being a technical term?

From the Free Online Dictionary of Computing:

hosed Jargon
A somewhat humorous variant of "down", used primarily by Unix hackers. "Hosed" implies a condition thought to be relatively easy to reverse. It is also widely used of people in the mainstream sense of "in an extremely unfortunate situation". The term was popularised by fighter pilots refering to being hosed by machine gun fire (date?). Usage in hackerdom dates back to CMU in the 1970s or earlier.
"Acronyms and Abbreviations" from UCC, Ireland expands it as "Hardware Or Software Error Detected", though this is probably a back-formation.
The Jargon File version 4.1.4 1999-06-17 says that it was probably derived from the Canadian slang "hoser" (meaning "a man, esp. one who works at a job that uses physical rather than mental skills and whose habits are slightly offensive but amusing"). One correspondant speculates about an allusion to a hose-like body part.
Once upon a time, a Cray that had been experiencing periodic difficulties crashed, and it was announced to have been hosed. It was discovered that the crash was due to the disconnection of some coolant hoses. The problem was corrected, and users were then assured that everything was OK because the system had been rehosed. See also dehose.
See also: hose. (1999-10-28)

[silverleaf]

Um, my point was, compared to Saudi Arabia, Vatican City, though a “country”, is the size of a “city”

Mr Spellcheck is our friend-

You’re welcome

[Alouette]

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[libs_kma]

WoW! I had no idea it was that official.

I do a little unix and I've used the term before. I was going for facetious, and you have the facts. I stand corrected. :)

[reagan_fanatic]

I want to point out this is the land that Islam was introduced in; the land the prophet was born in, the same land that contains Mecca and Medina, two of the holiest sites in Islam. It makes sense not to allow another religion to be practiced in such a sacred place.

By that logic, islam should be prohibited from the Holy Land, as this is where Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born and where Christianity began.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander, honey.