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Saudi Arabia's Apartheid
Washington Post ^ | 12/22/2001 | Colbert I. King

Posted on 12/21/2001 8:32:42 PM PST by Pokey78

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

In response to last week's column concerning treatment of women in the Middle East, an American official who just completed a tour of duty in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, wrote: "As a husband and as a father of a teenage daughter, I can assure you that life even for Western women in Saudi Arabia is every bit as bad as you describe. Saudi official assurances that non-Muslims need not follow Muslim codes of dress and behavior are utter nonsense, and the very real threat of punishment or abuse for not wearing abbayas [head-to-toe black cloaks] or for going out unaccompanied leaves most Western women in Riyadh to live lives of silent depression."


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To: Travis McGee
I think we are heading toward crunch time with the Saudis.

Crunch 'em, I have had misfortune to meet a few Saudi Royals, arrogant SOB's everyone.

Actually the members of the princes' posses are worst.

21 posted on 12/21/2001 11:23:14 PM PST by razorback-bert
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To: Libertarianize the GOP
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It's propaganda but it's also probably 80-90% true.

22 posted on 12/21/2001 11:23:38 PM PST by wooly_mammoth
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To: wooly_mammoth
You could drive most of them into the desert, then give control of mecca and medina to the Jordanians and it would suit me fine.
23 posted on 12/21/2001 11:24:03 PM PST by Travis McGee
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To: AdamWeisshaupt
I got no problem with feminism. I think it's fine. Don't care too much for the bull-dyke variety or Andrea Dworkin's kind but overall it's a good idea. If you look at my posts you'll notice that I also attack Sharon a lot. I'm not attacking Arabs in general. I'm attacking the Caligula-like Saud family dictatorship.
24 posted on 12/21/2001 11:30:35 PM PST by wooly_mammoth
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To: Travis McGee
Yup, and it's a big desert.
25 posted on 12/21/2001 11:31:47 PM PST by wooly_mammoth
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To: Travis McGee
Wasn't Idi Amin given sanctuary in Saudi Arabia?
26 posted on 12/21/2001 11:34:31 PM PST by wooly_mammoth
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To: AdamWeisshaupt
Although I cannot take your statement regarding the Saudi's as fact, even if true, it does not mean that the place of women in general in Saudi Arabia is something worse than the condition of women in the United States.

I see. And you claim to not be a Saud Lobbyist? You're full of crap.

27 posted on 12/21/2001 11:37:38 PM PST by wooly_mammoth
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To: wooly_mammoth
Yes, and I think he is still there, poolside.

Perhaps he saves bored princelings the hassle of taking discarded sex slaves out into the desert.

You do recall Idi Amin Dada's "appetite"?

28 posted on 12/21/2001 11:42:59 PM PST by Travis McGee
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To: AdamWeisshaupt
" I'm just sick of the demonization of Arab peoples conducted by so many members of Free Republic..."

You've got to be kidding!
The Arabs have demonized themselves by their freaking murderous behavior and declarations of Jihad against everything in the world that is "non-Islamic"...

Think it through --- people are damned sick and tired of those arrogant bastards and their evil cultlike perspective on religion.

Semper Fi

30 posted on 12/22/2001 8:46:18 AM PST by river rat
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To: Travis McGee
There were rumors about him being a cannibal, right? Or was it something else? Kinda like Dahmer but in charge of a country from what I read.
31 posted on 12/22/2001 2:26:13 PM PST by wooly_mammoth
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To: wooly_mammoth
Hell yes it was more than rumors! It was torture rooms with refrigerators for the "choice parts"! The rest fed the crocs in the rivers.
32 posted on 12/22/2001 4:14:49 PM PST by Travis McGee
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To: Travis McGee
Really? That's disgusting. What parts did he favor? Brains, hearts, what else? Did he shrink heads? I remember going to the King Leupold Museum in Brussels numerous times a long time ago. Plenty of shrunken heads there. They were 3 or 4 inches in diameter but the hair was straight and around 12-16 inches long. Whole tribes devoted to cannibalism existed in the Congo until the early 80's. I'm sure there's a few remnants of it even today.
33 posted on 12/23/2001 1:13:20 PM PST by wooly_mammoth
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To: wooly_mammoth
I think that depraved beastial cruelty lies latent an inch bleow the surface in much of Africa: consider the wave of "anti AIDS" infant raping in South Africa.
34 posted on 12/23/2001 1:33:16 PM PST by Travis McGee
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To: Travis McGee
You mean some of the rapes were commited upon infants in order to avoid getting aids?
35 posted on 12/23/2001 5:51:26 PM PST by wooly_mammoth
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To: wooly_mammoth
Yes, exactly.

These primitives in pants truly belive in all kind of ju-ju magic nonsense, such as doing a virgin will cure one of AIDS.

Raping infants is seen as a sure way to get the "virgin cure".

36 posted on 12/23/2001 8:19:31 PM PST by Travis McGee
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To: Travis McGee
I'm not surprised. In terms of AIDS, check out this site.
37 posted on 12/24/2001 9:19:38 PM PST by wooly_mammoth
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To: Travis McGee
Merry Christmas!
38 posted on 12/24/2001 9:22:32 PM PST by nunya bidness
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