Thank you Russkiy for the translation and estimate of who these people are.
Here are some videos (Thanks Don L) of the actual kidnapped UN workers
Category Archives: KSA Saudi Arabia
Nearly half Saudi women are beaten at home
The rest are probably beaten elsewhere.
H/T TL
Emirates247:
Study shows desert people are less violent that other Saudi men
Published Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Nearly half Saudi women are beaten up by their husbands or other family members at home and many of them are hit by sticks and head cover, according to a university study published in local newspapers on Tuesday.
Surprisingly, the study found that the Bedouin men who still dwell the desert in the conservative Gulf Kingdom, are less violent than Saudi men in urban areas.
The study was conducted by Dr Lateefa Abdul Lateef, a social science professor at King Saud University in the Capital Riyadh. It involved female students at the university and some Saudi women covered by the government’s social security.
Saudi Arabia arrests 53 Ethiopians for practicing Christianity
‘He will stay in prison for a long time’: Saudi royal family intervenes in case of ‘celebrity’ preacher released after paying blood money despite raping and torturing daughter to death
Looks like the Saudi Royals have hired a new PR guy. Would be interesting to follow this case and see what really happens to him. My money is that he is at home already raping someone else’s kids to death.
H/T Don L:
The Independent:
Royal family reportedly ‘stung’ by the outrage over the case
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The Saudi royal family has intervened to block the release of a ‘celebrity’ preacher accused of raping, torturing and killing his five-year-old daughter.
Fayhan al-Ghamdi was set to be released after agreeing to pay “blood money” to the mother of his daughter Lama, who suffered multiple injuries including a crushed skull, broken back, broken ribs, a broken left arm and extensive bruising and burns. Social workers say she had also been repeatedly raped and burnt.
Baby burkas: Fatwa Sheikh tells Saudi tots to cover up
H/T WTD2
Albawaba
Published February 3rd, 2013 – 07:45 GMT via SyndiGate.info
Saudi cleric, Sheikh Abdullah Daoud, has called parents to make their female children wear the Islamic headscarf. (YouTube picture)
A Saudi cleric has called for all female babies to be fully covered by wearing the face veil, commonly known as the burka, citing reports of little girls being sexually molested.
In a TV interview on the Islamic Al-Majd TV, which seems to date back to mid-last year, Sheikh Abdullah Daoud, stressed that wearing the veil will protect baby girls. The Sheikh tried to back his assertion with claims of sexual molestation against babies in the kingdom, quoting unnamed medical and security sources.
Saudi preacher gets off light for raping, killing daughter
In one of the excellent briefs on Islam and its intentions for the world, Stephen Coughlin explains the concept of ‘killing with no retribution’ , what we refer to as, ‘honour killings’, as detailed in ‘The Reliance of the Traveller’, the most authoritative book on sharia law currently available.
Here is one example of how it works from the KSA.
H/T Magic Martin
Ahram:
A Saudi preacher who raped his five-year-old daughter and tortured her to death has been sentenced to pay “blood money” to the mother after having served a short jail term, activists said on Saturday.
Lamia al-Ghamdi was admitted to hospital on December 25, 2011 with multiple injuries, including a crushed skull, broken ribs and left arm, extensive bruising and burns, the activists said. She died last October 22.
Fayhan al-Ghamdi, an Islamic preacher and regular guest on Muslim television networks, confessed to having used cables and a cane to inflict the injuries, the activists from the group “Women to Drive” said in a statement.
They said the father had doubted Lama’s virginity and had her checked up by a medic.
Randa al-Kaleeb, a social worker from the hospital where Lama was admitted, said the girl’s back was broken and that she had been raped “everywhere”, according to the group.
According to the victim’s mother, hospital staff told her that her “child’s rectum had been torn open and the abuser had attempted to burn it closed.”
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Fayhan al-Ghamdi
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the daughter :
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Saudi vice police order shops who employ men and women to put up segregation walls to keep them apart
Daily Mail:
- Shops have been ordered to erect dividers to keep men and women apart
- The dividers need to be at least 5ft 3in, religious police said
- Saudi Arabia’s strict sharia law ban men and women who are not immediate relatives from socialising
By Sara Malm
PUBLISHED: 19:59 GMT, 29 January 2013 | UPDATED: 20:00 GMT, 29 January 2013
Shops in Saudi Arabia have been ordered to put up walls to separate their male and female employees in accordance with the country’s strict vice laws.
Segregation: Shops in this mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will have to erect barriers to separate their male and female employees as religious law prevents mingling of men and women who are not blood relatives
The barriers need to be at least 5ft 3in high and will keep staff from seeing and communicating with workers of the opposite sex.
This follows Saudi Arabia’s strict interpretation of Islam which prohibits men and women who are not immediate relatives from socialising.
Segregation: Shops in this mall in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will have to erect barriers to separate their male and female employees as religious law prevents mingling of men and women who are not blood relatives
The news comes only days after the religious police, known as the Mutawa, said there would be no punishment for men who frequent shopping malls and public spaces in their underwear.
The new and controversial trend among young men is to go out in public wearing only undershirts and trousers, normally worn underneath the traditional robes.
Music festival in Saudi Arabia
I was all turned around about this issue. Saudi Arabia does have music festivals and I suspect a lot of them are Jimi Hendrix fans.
H/T Magic Martin
The answer to the ancient question is now known. If you give a million monkeys a million typewriters and wait a million years you will not get a single line of Shakespeare. What you will get, is a million broken and feces covered typewriters.
Short version here
Diana West: The Fox Effect, Pt. 3
This is crucial reading. Diana West busts FOX for being paid shills for Saudi religious and totalitarian interests. Hard to argue with this much evidence.
Diana West.Net:
Written by: Diana West
Sunday, January 13, 2013 6:23 AM 
Pt. 2 is here.
Pt. 1 is here.
Saudi journalist Hazma Kashgari (photo above) has spent almost the entire past year in a Saudi prison — the Islamic Gulag — for tweeting an imaginary conversation with Mohammed. King Abdullah — the man Barack Obama bowed to, the man George W. Bush kissed and held hands with, and the man whose nephew, Prince Talal bin Alwaleed, is a major stock-holder in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. — put him there. Kashgari’s story, and treatment of his story at Fox and elsewhere, is below.
From the vault:
1) Blog post, February 14, 2012: “(Prince Talal’s) Fox News AWOL on (Prince Talal’s) Twitter Story”
Have you heard about Hazma Kashgari, the Saudi blogger who tweeted an imaginary conversation with Mohammed, drew so many (tens of thousands) angry comments from his co-religionists and co-kingdomists that he deleted his tweets, fled the country and made for New Zealand to seek asylum but was arrested in Malaysia and extradited back to Saudi A where he now faces charges on the capital crime of “blasphemy”?
Not if you watch fair and balanced Fox News, you haven’t. I have searched the site but cannot find any stories about Kashgari. (You try.)
You don’t suppose the fact that Saudi dictatorship-family-member Talal bin Alwaleed owns the largest non-Murdoch stake in Fox News (7 percent) and a new stake in Twitter (almost 4 percent) has anything to do with that, do you?
2) Syndicated column, February 16, 2012: “Did Saudi Prince Buy Fox’s Silence?”
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Christians and Jews won’t be caught dead in Saudi Arabia
Thanks Don L for this look at Saudi legal decrees
Published on Jan 9, 2013
This video footage taken from the United Nations (UN) in New York City on April 5, 2012 shows Syrian UN representative, Bashar al-Jaafari, talking about new fatwas (religious edicts) issued by Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti (Great Imam) who made ridiculous statements that just show how backward and out-of-touch Saudi Wahhabism is.
It is worthy to mention that Saudi Arabia and Qatar (two Wahhabi Gulf states) have been aggressively backing Wahhabi-minded Jihadist militants in the Levant, especially in the Syrian terrorist insurgency, to get rid of any religious diversity in that region and replace it with a monochromatic hardline ultra-orthodox version of Sunni Islam, also known as Wahhabism.
Man arrested in Mekkah for seeking to marry Jewish woman
H/T EDL Buck
Friday, 04 January 2013
Reports had sugegsted that the man was handng out papers to worshipers and asking them for help in finding his Jewish dream wife. (Al Arabiya)
By Al Arabiya
Police at the Grand Mosque in Mekkah arrested on Thursday a man found carrying papers that show he is looking for a Jewish woman to marry, according to a report by the daily al-Hayat newspaper.
Lieutenant Abdulmohsen Maiman, spokesman for the Grand Mosque police, told the paper that the 49-year-old Saudi national could be suffering from “mental disorder.”
He said the man was arrested in possession of “five documents containing contradictory information showing the man’s mental state and expressing his desire to marry a Jewish a woman,” al-Hayat reported.
Lieutenant Maiman denied earlier reports that the man was handing out papers to worshipers and asking them for help in finding his Jewish dream wife.
The man according to the police official was referred to investigation and prosecution before he could be transferred to a specialized physician.
(The original report can be found at: http://alhayat.com/Details/469007)
Saudi sergeant arrested in rape of boy at Circus Circus
H/T Magic Martin:
Las Vegas Review Journal:
By Mike Blasky
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Posted: Jan. 4, 2013 | 1:01 p.m.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2013 | 5:23 p.m.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2013 | 5:23 p.m.
A member of the Saudi Arabian military in the U.S. for a training mission has been charged with raping a boy in a Strip hotel on New Year’s Eve.
Mazen Alotaibi, a 23-year-old sergeant in the Royal Saudi Air Force, was arrested Dec. 31 and accused of assaulting a 13-year-old boy in a Circus Circus hotel room bathroom.
According to a Las Vegas police report, Alotaibi was on the sixth floor of the hotel about 7:30 a.m. when he pulled the boy into his room. Three other men were in the room smoking marijuana, the report said.
The boy told police that none of the men spoke English.
Alotaibi later told police he offered the boy money for sex, and when he refused, he raped the boy, the report said. […] and his penis “accidentally” went into the boy’s rectum.
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Saudi detains dozens for “plotting to celebrate Christmas”
This needs wider publicity than it is going to get. H/T Magic Martin
From Al Akbar:
(Photo: Reuters – Larry Downing)
Published Thursday, December 27, 2012
Saudi religious police stormed a house in the Saudi Arabian province of al-Jouf, detaining more than 41 guests for “plotting to celebrate Christmas,” a statement from the police branch released Wednesday night said.
The raid is the latest in a string of religious crackdowns against residents perceived to threaten the country’s strict religious code.
The host of the alleged Christmas gathering is reported to be an Asian diplomat whose guests included 41 Christians, as well as two Saudi Arabian and Egyptian Muslims. The host and the two Muslims were said to be “severely intoxicated.”
The guests were said to have been referred to the “respective authorities.” It is unclear whether or not they have been released since.
The kingdom, which only recognizes Islamic faith and practice, has in the past banned public Christmas celebrations, but is ambiguous about festivities staged in private quarters.
HRW: Saudi website editor could face death for apostasy
J-post:
RIYADH – The editor of a Saudi Arabian website could be sentenced to death after a judge cited him for apostasy and moved his case to a higher court, the monitoring group Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.
Raif Badawi, who started the Free Saudi Liberals website to discuss the role of religion in Saudi Arabia, was arrested in June, Human Rights Watch said.
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Electronic tracking: new constraint for Saudi women
Just while we are protesting Israel…
Daily Star:
November 22, 2012 01:06 PM (Last updated: November 22, 2012 03:11 PM)By Assaad Abboud
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RIYADH: Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements.
Since last week, Saudi women’s male guardians began receiving text messages on their phones informing them when women under their custody leave the country, even if they are travelling together.
Manal al-Sherif, who became the symbol of a campaign launched last year urging Saudi women to defy a driving ban, began spreading the information on Twitter, after she was alerted by a couple.
The husband, who was travelling with his wife, received a text message from the immigration authorities informing him that his wife had left the international airport in Riyadh.
“The authorities are using technology to monitor women,” said columnist Badriya al-Bishr, who criticised the “state of slavery under which women are held” in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
Women are not allowed to leave the kingdom without permission from their male guardian, who must give his consent by signing what is known as the “yellow sheet” at the airport or border.
Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Nov-22/195915-electronic-tracking-new-constraint-for-saudi-women.ashx#ixzz2Cy1Yb5d7
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)