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2017-10-02 Arabia

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Posted by Fred 2017-10-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1 It actually confirms Soddy Arabia's decisive journey towards civilization, modernization and development.

I'm picturing a guy running after a train that left 5 centuries ago.

Posted by SteveS 2017-10-02 00:17|| 2017-10-02 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 No, it - along with any other concentration of Muslims - is a cancer growth on the body of humanity. That one is a particularly dangerous because of petrodollars.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-02 02:06|| 2017-10-02 02:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Saudi Arabia is not a backward state

...Oh, heavens to Betsy, no.

They're a state that is desperately trying to overcome its self-imposed religious stupidity in an effort to regain what its taken them nearly 100 years to lose. The Saudi leadership thinks that giving women the right to drive will suddenly make the rest of the world see that KSA is a strong, vital part of the 21st century so please invest here because we need yer money.

Um, no. It's not. The women ain't gonna stop just at driving, and everyone else seems to know it except those wacky al-Sauds. The Saudi enforcement apparatus - the mutaawa, the cops - aren't going to suddenly change their tune towards women just because the King says so, and I would bet dollars to shwarma that you're going to start seeing vicious, fatal attacks on driving women. Needless to say, that's not going to draw investments from anybody who could make a difference though there's some countries that I have no doubt will jump at the chance to sink their talons in.

Russia and China, for instance.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-10-02 05:49|| 2017-10-02 05:49|| Front Page Top

#4 They forced school girls back into a burning building rather than let them appear in public "uncovered". They're barbarians.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-10-02 06:56|| 2017-10-02 06:56|| Front Page Top

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