Posted on 05/20/2017 6:16:37 AM PDT by markomalley
As Donald Trump and the First Lady get ready to visit Saudi Arabia, where the president is expected to announce an arms deal valued at $100 million or more, the nation has planned “male only” entertainment that Melania will not be allowed to attend — including a Toby Keith concert.
Toby Keith, who played during the celebration prior to Trump’s inauguration in DC, will be performing in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. The concert will be free and open to the public — as long as you have a penis. No women will be allowed to attend the event. Popular Saudi lute player Rabeh Sager will also perform.
Many of Keith’s songs, such as “Whiskey Girl,” “Beer For My Horses” and “I Love This Bar,” are inspired by alcohol — which is also banned in the Muslim nation. It is unclear if he will still perform the classic hits.
While she won’t be allowed to enjoy some country music, Melania Trump will at least not be required to don the strict Muslim attire — including head coverings — that is typically expected of visitors.
As we previously reported, German Chancellor Angela Merkel did not wear a veil on her recent visit to Riyadh, but her hair was censored on the nation’s news.
Ironically, Saudi Arabia is the newest addition to the United Nation’s Women’s Rights Commission.
Saudi Arabia’s addition to the commission, which is “exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women,” has been mocked globally. Even the far-left Washington Post referred to it as a “bit of a slap in the face for women’s rights.”
During the two day trip, Trump “will meet and have lunch with leaders of more than 50 Muslim countries, where he will deliver an inspiring yet direct speech on the need to confront radical ideology and his hopes for a peaceful vision of Islam to dominate across the world,” US national security advisor H R McMaster told reporters earlier this week. He added that the trip is “intended to demonstrate America’s commitment to our Muslim partners.”
On Saturday evening, the first lady will join the president for dinner with members of the Saudi royal family.
Saudi Arabia has long been considered one of the worst nations for women’s rights — and is continuing to decline. In 2016, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report ranked Saudi Arabia 141 out of 144 countries for gender equality. In the previous year’s findings they were ranked at 134.
Under the nation’s sharia law, men are permitted to marry as many as four women at a time, and the figure includes marrying children, as there is no minimum age for marriage. Impoverished parents still marry off daughters for money.
Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive and must have a male guardian give them permission before they can conduct any business or receive certain medical treatments.
she wouldn’t wear a hijab anyway to be able to go out anywhere. And good for her.
Well in that case, let’s rush in and make sure they get the best. When have we ever fought against people we’ve armed and sacrificed military lives. .. I mean, besisides iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam.
You are delusional. ISIS and the Syrian jihadis were created, funded, and intellectually supported by the gulf states and the Saudis. This is not a coalition to defeat ISIS, its a coalition to ensure Sunni islam wind the moslem civil war and is always in power.
This IS the time. It ALWAYS the right time to bash the Saudis. Those throwbacks never have to give us a damned thing. They never have to change a single policy or behavior. And of all the nations of earth, that’s sickening that they are the first.
What have they done to earn this trip? Nothing. Freed slaves, nope. Allowed churches or synagogues? Nope. Held an election? Nope. Turned over the 9/11 planners? Nope. Stopped funding wahabbist mosques in America? Nope. Let all foreigners visit Mecca? Nope. Given women rights? Nope.
Saudi Arabia is a probably second only to North Korea in its invasive totalitarian and terror sponsoring behavior. And there we are again, acting like they are a good friend.
” the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves,”
Aliens. Right there in Genesis.
It would be called the Sausage Tour if Pigs were not also forbidden
Can you picture a young Saudi male having paid his dowry finds on his wedding night that his new bride makes Helen Thomas look desirable?
No wonder there are so many homosexuals in Saudi Arabia.
I don’t believe she or the President should have gone to such an effed-up country because it gives SA legitimacy that it does not deserve.
This is not the Trump I voted for.
The concert will be free and open to the public — as long as you have a penis. No women will be allowed to attend the event.
More of this stone-aged, binary view of gender. ;)
I believe it’s a free concert
Misleading headline gives impression she was stopped at the door.
Sunday’s headline will let us know she’s banned from the priesthood.
Nor I.
Completely captured and sold out. Not so much IMO out of will as out of abject failure in staffing his admin.
Jivanka and everyone they brought in have to go.
That deal was made before they left. The Saudis announced that no dress restrictions would be placed on the Trump women. They announced that so there wouldn’t be shock when the Muslim World saw the photos. No veils like Hillary and Huma used to sport over there.
Things have changed.
Wahh.
Go back to lurking please. Your whining is unseemly.
The Saudis are in the front line against Iran. They’ll need stuff that works, and is compatible with our stuff.
“I mean, besides iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam.”
Yeah, I remember those three all using combloc weapons. Iraq had some Euroweenie stuff like Roland SAMs, and the French were building a nuclear reactor for Saddam until the Israelis knocked it out.
The Saudis use a mix of weaponry. Small arms are mostly German (HK) and American (M4). Heavier stuff is mostly US but some others. For aircraft, they like F-15s, Tornados and Typhoons. American helicopters and C-130s. American radar systems. They have PRC short- and medium-range ballistic missiles. They are working on nuclear weapons.
Yes, and that’s why they all have to go back. The sooner the better.
Monkey zoo trick in Saudi Arabia???
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