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| By blaming 1979 for Saudi Arabia’s problems, MBS is peddling revisionist history |
| 2018-04-06 |
| [DAWN] IN an interview with the news programme 60 Minutes, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman said of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... before 1979, "We were living a very normal life like the rest of the Gulf countries. Women were driving cars, there were movie theatres in Saudi Arabia, women worked everywhere. We were normal people developing like any other country in the world until the events of 1979." I was a teenager in the 1970s and grew up in Medina, Saudi Arabia. My memories of those years before the twin disasters of 1979 ‐ the siege of the Grand Mosque of Makkah and the Iranian Revolution ‐ are quite different from the narrative that the 32-year-old crown prince (known as MBS for short) advances to Western audiences. Women weren’t driving cars. I didn’t see a woman drive until I visited my sister and brother-in-law in Tempe, Arizona, in 1976. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I've I simple rule to determine when Muslims are lying. Unless they say things like "I wanna kill you", always. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-04-06 12:17 |
| #1 He pretty much has to peddle revisionist history because if he said the truth about Islam they'd never reform and he'd lose any support in the West. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-04-06 10:06 |