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Title: Saudis To Lash 75-Year-Old Woman For "Mingling" Post by: ER on March 10, 2009, 02:14:27 PM Ah, the cheerful society of our friends the Saudis!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29601858/ Title: Re: Saudis To Lash 75-Year-Old Woman For "Mingling" Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on March 10, 2009, 03:40:05 PM With friends like these. Sheesh.
-Ed Title: Re: Saudis To Lash 75-Year-Old Woman For "Mingling" Post by: schmendrik on March 10, 2009, 03:53:22 PM I knew an Egyptian with an American wife & kids who took a 2-year contract with the Saudi government. He figured that being a Moslem and a native Arabic speaker he'd get along fine with them. He was wrong. Came home after one year.
Title: Re: Saudis To Lash 75-Year-Old Woman For "Mingling" Post by: AndyC on March 10, 2009, 05:17:52 PM So, the Saudis are the ones who aren't dangerous whackjobs, right?
Title: Re: Saudis To Lash 75-Year-Old Woman For "Mingling" Post by: schmendrik on March 10, 2009, 05:34:57 PM We've been friendly with the Saudi royal family for a long time. But much of the culture, including the entire education system, has been taken over by the whack-jobbiest of the religious whack jobs.
Title: Re: Saudis To Lash 75-Year-Old Woman For "Mingling" Post by: indianasmith on March 10, 2009, 06:50:18 PM Come on, Ellie - Islam is a religion of peace.
Say it with me. Title: Re: Saudis To Lash 75-Year-Old Woman For "Mingling" Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on March 11, 2009, 12:06:14 PM They are all religions of peace, until people start with thinking they should regulate the holiness of weveryone else. Now stop mingling or I shall report you!
Title: Re: Saudis To Lash 75-Year-Old Woman For "Mingling" Post by: indianasmith on March 11, 2009, 08:32:51 PM They are all religions of peace, until people start with thinking they should regulate the holiness of weveryone else. Now stop mingling or I shall report you! Islam has never been particularly peaceful. The sweet, gracious prophet Muhammad once ordered a slave girl decapitated for making up a bawdy limerick about him. Title: Re: Saudis To Lash 75-Year-Old Woman For "Mingling" Post by: ghouck on March 12, 2009, 02:12:53 PM Islam has never been particularly peaceful. Sure it is, didn't you see how it changed Mike Tyson? . . oh wait, , bad example.. . Title: Re: Saudis To Lash 75-Year-Old Woman For "Mingling" Post by: BTM on March 12, 2009, 09:11:38 PM Ah, the cheerful society of our friends the Saudis! [url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29601858/[/url] Hey, now, to be fair, they've arrested and are going to whip the men who came to see her as well. :lookingup: |