Category Archives: KSA Saudi Arabia
Saudi woman to be lashed for defying driving ban
From BBC:
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to 10 lashes for breaking the country’s ban on female drivers.
The woman, identified only as Shema, was found guilty of driving in Jeddah in July.
Women2drive, which campaigns for women to be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, says she has already lodged an appeal.
In recent months, scores of women have driven vehicles in Saudi cities in an effort to put pressure on the monarchy to change the law.
The sentence comes two days after the Saudi leader King Abdullah announced women would be allowed to vote for the first time in 2015.
Two other women are due to appear in court later this year on similar charges, correspondents say.
John Robson gives his usual lucid and direct analysis of the ethics of the KSA
Ezra continues to expose Canadian media dhimmitude to the Saudis
Some great SUN TV clips for Wed. Sept 21 2011
Ezra is joined by Ottawa’s David Harris, former chief of strategic planning for CSIS to talk about the security charade that is Canadian security at airports
Day three of Ezra’s expose of the attempt, no the successful bullying via lawfare by the Saudis to silence criticism of their totalitarian misogynist and antisemitic regime. Notice how now other major media are picking up the story that Ezra first caught.
Ezra interviews the brother of the slain minister from Pakistan, who fought for equality of religious rights there
I’ll be adding a couple more within an hour or so. Check back to this post
Ezra Levant continues to expose Saudi lawfare and KSA attempts to silence media
Ezra Levant and SUN TV may well be the most couragious media in the world today. I really mean that. Perhaps more importantly, what they say is unimpeachably true. Their critics rarely if ever argue with them. Just name calling and threatening or exposing them to threats. But rarely if ever are they challenged on the facts.
I added a little video comment of my own to the end of this by the way.
Ezra and others are threatened with a law suit for telling the truth about their awful medieval society.
I wonder why it took us so long to get around to discussing the raw facts on the media. When you think about it, it is so blatantly obvious and doesn’t take a whole year of university profs making up crap to realize that Saudi Arabia is: Systemically racist, a genuine apartheid state where non-Muslims may not enter 2 of their major cities, where women are second class citizens and all bad things from meteors to blown light bulbs are the fault of the Jews at the level of local lore. (I refer to the autobiography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and her experiences when she lived there called, ‘Infidel’) but the Saudis are not above a little lawfare when it comes to protecting their oil revenues and frankly, I don’t blame them.
After all, their religion pretty much prevents them from generating any actual wealth. They pretty much have to depend on oil sales to people who can invent and mass produce things like cars.
Blazing has a better compilation on this here:
Saudi women object to import of Moroccan maids as too beautiful
Hmm maybe there is a reason Saudi women are forced by law to wear a total face and body cover at all times after all. It should be noted that sorcery, whatever that is, is punished by death in the KSA as well as to the best of my knowledge, the punishments for adultery are only applied to women, or certainly more harshly.
From Digital Journal:
Women in Saudi Arabia have innundated the government with complaints over plans to import Moroccan women as housemaids. The reason: Moroccan women are just too beautiful and may lure the Saudi husbands away.
It is a relatively rare event when the voices of Saudi women are heard in protest. This year there have been notable exceptions as some women protested for the right to drive, whilst others demanded the right to vote. Now they have another common cause as they put their foot down against plans to bring female domestic maids from Morocco into the Kingdom.
According to Emirates 24 the Shura Council was
“deluged by demands from Saudi women”
to suspend the plans. Considering that Saudi households have been desperate for new maids since the government issued a ban effective from Aug. 1 on any new domestic workers from Indonesia and the Philippines, the refusal to accept Moroccan workers at first appears odd.
However it turns out that Moroccan women are considered too beautiful and may lure the Saudi husbands away from their wives. Emirates 247 says some of the Saudi complaints were
“Moroccan women are so attractive that their husbands could easily fall for them.”
Other stated concerns were
“Moroccans are good at magic and sorcery and that this could enable them to lure their husbands.”
In a country where adultery is punishable by stoning to death, Saudi women are exhibiting signs of great insecurity. Continue Reading →
Delightful petard hoist to international sanctimony shop
This is an event that really needs to happen more. This is a delightful clip showing some people protesting a store that does nonsense, ‘safe’ boycotts to advertise their moral superiority while having two stores in Saudi Arabia.
Enjoy!
Ukrainian Women Drive Naked Outside Saudi Embassy to Protest Ban
From the Discovery Institute’s Russia Blog
“Since 2008, Ukrainian organization “Femen” has held epatage protests against corrupt government officials, unfair bills, and even Saudi law banning women from driving. ”
The photo was taken at the June 16 protest held outside of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia to Ukraine.
“The protests tend to be extremely successful, as they attract general public’s and media attention, and frazzle predominantly male law enforcement officials.” Continue Reading →
Obama administration pushing forward with India-style nuclear pact for Saudi Arabia
From Jewish World Review:
h/t Richard
By Howard LaFranchi
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ASHINGTON— (TCSM) The Obama administration is quietly moving ahead on the groundwork for a possible civilian nuclear trade agreement with Saudi Arabia — an agreement that could prove to be the most controversial of a string of such US deals in recent years.
The US plans to hold what State Department officials are calling “exploratory talks” in Riyadh this week to gauge Saudi objectives behind their interest in a civilian nuclear deal. The US also wants to explore whether the Saudi government would accept restrictions to ensure its nuclear fuel is used purely for civilian purposes, according to congressional sources.
The US has recently concluded civilian nuclear trade deals — or so-called “123” agreements — with India and the United Arab Emirates and is in advanced discussions with countries including Jordan, Vietnam, and South Korea.
But Saudi Arabia’s interest in such an accord has raised intense suspicions, particularly in the US Congress.
“There aren’t many countries you could come up with where people would be more energized in opposition to this kind of cooperation than this one,” says one House staffer who was informed on the administration’s planned talks, but could speak only on condition of anonymity, due to the fact that the talks have not yet been made public.
“It’s an unstable country in an unstable region, and — fairly or unfairly — people think 9/11 when they think of Saudi Arabia. It would be an extremely hard sell,” said the staffer.
The State Department first announced Saudi Arabia’s interest in gaining access to US nuclear technology for “medicine, industry, and power generation” in May 2008. US-Saudi relations have become considerably rockier since then, and some regional experts say it is important to keep that in mind when considering why the administration is proceeding with exploratory talks now.
Geert Wilders Slams OIC on Out-of-Bounds Criticism of Free Speech
I doubt any readers of this blog need to be reminded that no non-Muslim is even allowed to enter the cities of Mecca or ‘Medina’. ” (Yathrib)
Qur’an as follows: “Oh you who believe! Truly the idolaters are unclean; so let them not, after this year, approach the Sacred Mosque….” (9:28)
And that Islamic genuine apartheid is alive, well and widely systemic. That Christian prayers are not allowed by law in the Hagia Sophia, arguably the world seat of reason and one of the three original homes of Christianity as well as the place that the Muslims stole pretty much all of the ‘iconic’ (pun fully intended) architectural devices which we associate with Islam, but are really the invention of the ancient Greeks. So the notion of Muslims claiming that the rest of us are ‘Islamophobic’ for pointing any of this out is highly emetic to say the least.
The truth is illegal as so many futurists suspected it would be.
Time to free Constantinople and Yathrib from genuine multi-century siege and apartheid.
From Suite 101
- Jul 6, 2011
- Jen L. Jones
- Geert Wilders, Leader of Dutch Freedom Party – Image by Hanhil
Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls on Dutch PM to rein in Geert Wilders, branding his speech anti-Islamic. Wilders says OIC lecturing hypocritical.
Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, is calling on the government of the Netherlands to reject the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s attempt to control free speech there. On July 6, 2011, Wilders prepared a list of seven questions for Parliament in response to the OICs recent statement urging the Dutch government to act to suppress Wilders speech because it is anti-Islamic.
Wilders was acquitted on June 23, 2011, on all charges of hate-speech and inciting discrimination against Muslims by a Dutch court. The decision was seen as a landmark decision supporting the right to freedom of speech.
OIC Statement: Right to Freedom of Expression a Pretext
The OIC, a 57-member organization of Muslim states, changed its name from the Organization of the Islamic Conference to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in June 2011. Continue Reading →
Saudi prince raises prospect of nuclear arms race with Iran
From DW-WORLD:
Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence chief, has warned that if Iran obtained nuclear weapons, Saudi Arabia would too. Analysts say the two are already engaged in a ‘cold war’ in various parts of the world.
Britain’s Guardian newspaper revealed recently that Prince Turki al-Faisal gave an unpublicized speech earlier this month to senior officials at a NATO air base in the UK during which the former Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador to Washington and Britain implied that a nuclear arms race could break out in the Middle East if Iran continues to pursue its nuclear ambitions.
Faisal did not outline specific policies, but warned that if Iran had a nuclear weapon, it “would compel Saudi Arabia … to pursue policies which could lead to untold and possibly dramatic consequences.”
The newspaper also quoted an unnamed Saudi official as saying “we cannot live in a situation where Iran has nuclear weapons and we don’t.”
“If Iran develops a nuclear weapon, that will be unacceptable and we will have to follow suit,” the official said.
The Saudis fear Iran’s influence in the Arab Spring
None of this is particularly surprising to Guido Steinberg, researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).
“He’s said something like this before, if I remember rightly,” he told Deutsche Welle. “Also, you have to be careful, because Faisal doesn’t hold any official position at the moment, though I think it’s clear that he would like to become foreign minister. Continue Reading →
Ezra Levant interviews Tarek Fatah
Tarek, a liberal Muslim in Canada, gets more death threats than your average infidel by orders of magnitude. Recently, he exposed rot and corruption in the RCMP due to Islamic influence as while he was in the hospital, police broke important protocols to avoid looking into complaints Tarek made about death threats from various Muslims and Muslim Orgs.
In Saudi Arabia, Renewed Discussion On Fatwa Permitting The Killing Of Coworkers Who Do Not Pray
From the MEMRI blog:
A 2009 fatwa by Saudi Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, which permits an employee to kill his coworker if he does not pray, has reappeared in discussion on Internet message boards and social networks.
Extremist fatwas such as this raise the question of whether they should be issued by individual clerics, or by groups of clerics such as the Saudi Association of Senior Clerics – Saudi Arabia’s official religious institution.
Source: Alarabiya.net, June 28, 2011.