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‘Reformer’? Late King Abdullah may have kept four daughters captive for talking about women’s rights
National Post [Canada] / WashPost ^ | Saturday, January 24, 2015 | Ishaan Tharoor

Posted on 01/25/2015 6:08:12 AM PST by canuck_conservative

...Abdullah, like other Saudi royals, had numerous wives — at least seven, and perhaps as many as 30. He had at least 15 daughters. Four of them, according to news reports, live under house arrest....

Fayez claims her daughters’ supposed incarceration, which has gone on for some 13 years, was both a mark of Abdullah’s vindictive streak and intolerance of his daughters’ modern, independent upbringing. She says the four have been locked away for more than a decade, subject to abuse and deprivation.

Last year, various news stations managed to reach Sahar, 42, and Jawaher, 38, who live in a separate compound from Maha, 41, and Hala, 39. In an interview with RT last May, the pair described how they were running out of food and water.....

In another interview with an Arabic channel, the princesses described how they were being punished for championing women’s rights and resisting the kingdom’s strict rules mandating male guardianship over women....

"We, along with our mother, have always been vocal all our lives about poverty, women’s rights and other causes that are dear to our hearts. We often discussed them with our father. It did not sit well with him and his sons Mitab and AbdelAziz and their entourage. We have been the targets ever since."....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christinelagarde; france; islam; muslimwomen; oppression; polygamy; saudiarabia; womensrights
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Don't expect to see this on CNN, they're still follow
1 posted on 01/25/2015 6:08:12 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

... still following the WH cue of never criticising any Muslim head-of-state.


2 posted on 01/25/2015 6:09:21 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

Why didn’t Hillary defend them as the great promoter of women’s rights that she claims to be?


3 posted on 01/25/2015 6:10:18 AM PST by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: canuck_conservative

Outlaw Islam
Expel all Muslims
Stop all aid to Muslim lands


4 posted on 01/25/2015 6:11:12 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: canuck_conservative

Another lovely facet of the religion of love and peace. Abdullah has surely had a rude awakening after closing his physical eyes for the final time.


5 posted on 01/25/2015 6:15:50 AM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: canuck_conservative

This is the phony “King” that our president is going to honor on Tuesday in a country that produced 18 of the 19 Muslim terrorists who attacked the USA on 9/11.

Never forget.


6 posted on 01/25/2015 6:22:13 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

We know who and what Barry is.


7 posted on 01/25/2015 6:27:06 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: canuck_conservative

This came from a Lockheed employee who has had 3 assignments to Saudi Arabia.

During the pilot transition program with the KV-107 and C-130 with Lockheed, we found that most Saudi pilot trainees had very limited night vision, even on the brightest of moonlit nights. Their training retention rate was minimal including maintenance personnel.

>Some had dim memories and had to be constantly reminded of things that were told to them the day before. An American, British or any other western instructor is burned out pretty quick. It actually took Muslim C-130 pilots years before they could fly in the dark safely and then would be reluctant to leave the lights of a city. Ask any Marine, Air Force or Army guy who’s been trying to train Iraqis, and especially Afghans.
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> Islam is not only a religion; it’s a way of life all the way around. Yet another set of revealing facts about Muslim beliefs and traditions and ways of life.
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> 1400 years of inbreeding. I found this to be interesting. Didn’t know whether to believe it or not. To research I went to Wikipedia, “Cousin Marriage”, and far down in the article “Genetics” it seems there is a lot of truth here.
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> A huge Muslim problem: Inbreeding.
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> Nikolai Sennels is a Danish psychologist who has done extensive research into a little-known problem in the Muslim world: the disastrous results of Muslim inbreeding brought about by the marriage of first cousins.
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> This practice, which has been prohibited in the Judeo-Christian tradition since the days of Moses, was sanctioned by Muhammad and has been going on now for 50 generations (1,400 years) in the Muslim world. This practice of inbreeding will never go away in the Muslim world, since Muhammad is the ultimate example and authority on all matters, including marriage.
> The massive inbreeding in Muslim culture may well have done virtually irreversible damage to the Muslim gene pool, including extensive damage to its intelligence, sanity, and health. According to Sennels, close to half of all Muslims in the world are inbred.
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> In Pakistan, the numbers approach 70%. Even in England, more than half of Pakistani immigrants are married to their first cousins, and in Denmark the number of inbred Pakistani immigrants is around 40%. The numbers are equally devastating in other important Muslim countries: 67% in Saudi Arabia, 64% in Jordan, and Kuwait, 63% in Sudan, 60% in Iraq, and 54% in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
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> According to the BBC, this Pakistani, Muslim-inspired inbreeding is thought to explain the probability that a British Pakistani family is more than 13 times as likely to have children with recessive genetic disorders. While Pakistanis are responsible for three percent of the births in the UK, they account for 33% of children with genetic birth defects.
> The risks of what are called autosomal recessive disorders such as cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy is 18 times higher, and the risk of death due to malformations is 10 times higher. Other negative consequences of inbreeding include a 100 percent increase in the risk of stillbirths and a 50% increase in the possibility that a child will die during labour.
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> Lowered intellectual capacity is another devastating consequence of Muslim marriage patterns. According to Sennels, research shows that children of consanguineous marriages lose 10-16 points off their IQ and that social abilities develop much slower in inbred babies. The risk of having an IQ lower than 70, the official demarcation for being classified as “retarded,” increases by an astonishing 400 percent among children of cousin marriages. (Similar effects were seen in the Paranoiac dynasties in ancient Egypt and in the British royal family, where inbreeding was the norm for a significant period of time.)
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> In Denmark , non-Western immigrants are more than 300 percent more likely to fail the intelligence test required for entrance into the Danish army. Sennels says, “The ability to enjoy and produce knowledge and abstract thinking is simply lower in the Islamic world.” He points out that the Arab world translates just 330 books every year, about 20% of what Greece alone does.
> In the last 1,200 years of Islam, just 100,000 books have been translated into Arabic, about what Spain does in a single year. Seven out of 10 Turks have never even read a book. Sennels points out the difficulties this creates for Muslims seeking to succeed in the West. “A lower IQ, together with a religion that denounces critical thinking, surely makes it harder for many Muslims to have success in our high-tech knowledge societies.”
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> Only nine Muslims have ever won the Nobel Prize, and five of those were for the “Peace Prize.” According to Nature magazine, Muslim countries produce just 10 percent of the world average when it comes to scientific research measured by articles per million inhabitants.
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> In Denmark, Sennels’ native country, Muslim children are grossly over represented among children with special needs. One-third of the budget for Danish schools is consumed by special education, and anywhere from 51% to 70% of retarded children with physical handicaps in Copenhagen have an immigrant background. Learning ability is severely affected as well. Studies indicated that 64% of schoolchildren with Arabic parents are still illiterate after 10 years in the Danish school system. The immigrant dropout rate in Danish high schools is twice that of the native-born.
> Mental illness is also a product. The closer the blood relative, the higher the risk of schizophrenic illness. The increased risk of insanity may explain why more than 40% of patients in Denmark ’s biggest ward for clinically insane criminals have an immigrant background. The U.S. is not immune. According to Sennels, “One study based on 300,000 Americans shows that the majority of Muslims in the USA have a lower income, are less educated, and have worse jobs than the population as a whole.”
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> Sennels concludes: There is no doubt that the wide spread tradition of first cousin marriages among Muslims has harmed the gene pool among Muslims. Because Muslims’ religious beliefs prohibit marrying non-Muslims and thus prevents them from adding fresh genetic material to their population, the genetic damage done to their gene pool since their prophet allowed first cousin marriages 1,400 years ago are most likely massive. This has produced overwhelming direct and indirect human and societal consequences.
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> Bottom line: Islam is not simply a benign and morally equivalent alternative to the Judeo-Christian tradition. As Sennels points out, the first and biggest victims of Islam are Muslims. Simple Judeo-Christian compassion for Muslims and a common-sense desire to protect Western civilization from the ravages of Islam dictate a vigorous opposition to the spread of this dark and dangerous religion. These stark realities must be taken into account when we establish public polices dealing with immigration from Muslim countries and the building of mosques in the U.S.
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> Let us hope the civilized West and the North Americans wake up before a blind naiveté about the reality of Islam destroys what remains of our Judeo-Christian culture and our domestic tranquillity.
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8 posted on 01/25/2015 6:29:24 AM PST by Broker (Obama is rogue.)
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Another reason it's futile to train Arab armies-

In standard western Armies, one of the goals is to train the troops to eventually become the leaders. Some small-unit training included pretending all the Officers and non-Coms were killed, and YOU had to form a defense line (I did this a couple of times when I was in the National Guard). This trained even the lowliest private to develop some leadership and initiative skills.

This is impossible in Arab armies. Senior officers are terrified that their junior officers and non-coms will learn enough to eventually overthrow them. Thus, they treat their enlisted like dirt and don't expect them to show any intelligence or initiative (As an aside, this has helped Americans in wars because Authoritarian countries can't comprehend that OUR Enlisted men and women are often as smart as our officers and Non-coms).

Not surprised that our trained and equipped Iraqi allies fled when ISIS first attacked them.

9 posted on 01/25/2015 6:57:45 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: Broker

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/11/denmark-muslim-cousin-marriages-fills-schools-for-retarded

Sennels interview about Muslims and crime: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/jamie-glazov/among-criminal-muslims/


10 posted on 01/25/2015 6:59:54 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: Broker
consanguineous

Freeper "Word for the Day". Nice!!

11 posted on 01/25/2015 7:08:55 AM PST by super7man (Oh why did I post that, now I'll never be able to run for Congress.)
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To: MrBambaLaMamba

Outlaw Islam
Expel all Muslims
Stop all aid to Muslim lands
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Clear, concise and correct.


12 posted on 01/25/2015 7:56:50 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: canuck_conservative

I remember an article from years ago that talked about King Abdullah’s many wives. He had a secretary to keep track of his four wives, who were rotated in and out with new girls every week. He put Hefner to shame.


13 posted on 01/25/2015 8:37:17 AM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: MuttTheHoople

” Not surprised that our trained and equipped Iraqi allies fled when ISIS first attacked them.”

ISIS seems to be doing rather well and they’re muslims - maybe their training methods works better?

And as for muslims lack of intelligence - they seem to be doing rather well taking over the world for such imbeciles.


14 posted on 01/25/2015 8:45:00 AM PST by aquila48
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Yeah, well, the liberal Muslim democrat communists running Washington and Washington’s national press corpse of Obola’s ABCNNBCBS are less intelligent than your typical inbred Muslim ...

(We did see this trait in the Iranian “officer candidates” brought here by the Shah in the early 1970’s. Worthless cretins.


15 posted on 01/25/2015 10:08:10 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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” Yeah, well, the liberal Muslim democrat communists running Washington and Washington’s national press corpse of Obola’s ABCNNBCBS are less intelligent than your typical inbred Muslim ...”

And who elected the idiots in Washington?


16 posted on 01/25/2015 10:13:22 AM PST by aquila48
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

By contrast with what went before, all the way back to the Big Old Mo, she’s not wrong.

Twitter storm as IMF boss Christine Lagarde hails Saudi King Abdullah as ‘strong advocate of women’
http://www.france24.com/en/20150123-media-watch-abdullah-saudi-arabia-tribute-lagarde-imf-women-doomsday-clock-climate-change/


17 posted on 01/25/2015 1:09:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Why Arabs Lose Wars

http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles2002/20020909.asp


18 posted on 01/25/2015 1:30:34 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: aquila48

ISIS may or may not have retards for followers, but if you’ve ever been to a prison, you can be cunning and ruthless without being too smart.


19 posted on 01/25/2015 6:50:26 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: Broker
In the last 1,200 years of Islam, just 100,000 books have been translated into Arabic, about what Spain does in a single year. Seven out of 10 Turks have never even read a book. Sennels points out the difficulties this creates for Muslims seeking to succeed in the West. “A lower IQ, together with a religion that denounces critical thinking, surely makes it harder for many Muslims to have success in our high-tech knowledge societies.”

Only nine Muslims have ever won the Nobel Prize, and five of those were for the “Peace Prize.” According to Nature magazine, Muslim countries produce just 10 percent of the world average when it comes to scientific research measured by articles per million inhabitants.

The first cousin marriage thing is an outgrowth of polygamy. When one man can have many wives - many men will have none. The men who have no none - and never will - are the people who become 'fodder' for radical Muslims. They're the disposable ones of Islam - and yeah, the " livin' well Eloi" - the 'haves' in Muslim culture - would like nothing better than for Americans to come in an kill a bunch of them. The problem is Muslim families will produce more surplus men faster than we can kill them off. Aside from the creepy ethics involved. The 'surplus men' thing isn't an accident. It's part of the 'religion'... and the misery involved helps spread that belief..

And you ask - what does that have to do with marrying first cousins?

Women are prized property - and families keep their women to save them from the horrors of becoming "Morlocks" (radical muslims)... so it's first cousins and if a man dies his wife becomes the wife of his brother. This is a very sad and cruel religion. Think the worst of illegal Mormon cult spinoffs... (Jefferes?) Cults that allow men to have unlimited young women always have to dump young men.

20 posted on 01/25/2015 8:48:21 PM PST by GOPJ (Radical Muslims are the brutish "Morlocks' of the Islamic coin - flip of peace loving Eloi...)
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