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You mean the Saudis lied when they said they would stop participating in the Arab League boycott of Israel? Shocka! Leading Democratic and Republican congressmen expressed outrage following a report in Monday’s Jerusalem Post that Saudi Arabia has been violating its promise to Washington to stop enforcing the Arab ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Israel, Boycott, Antisemitism, Arab League
While we’re messing around with this silly Supreme Court nomination hearing in the US, over in Saudi Arabia they’re curing cancer with camel urine. Dr. Faten Abdel-Rahman Khorshid is responsible for one of the Kingdom’s greatest national achievements in the field of science for her work which began with ...
In one of the world’s richest theocratic countries, an outbreak of pesky spirits leads to legal action. A family in Saudi Arabia is taking a “genie” to court, accusing it of theft and harassment, reports say. They accuse the spirit of threatening them, throwing stones and stealing mobile phones, ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Sharia, Jinn, Genies, Superstition
The New York Times has an article on the extensive ties between top members of the Saudi ruling family and terrorist groups, as new evidence is revealed by the families of 9/11 victims — evidence that is being ignored and suppressed by the US government: Documents Back Saudi Link to ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Jihad, Militant Islam, Terrorism, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Law, 9/11
A horrific crime leads to horrific punishment, in the religious apartheid kingdom: Saudi beheads and crucifies murder convict. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities beheaded and crucified a man convicted of brutally slaying an 11-year-old boy and his father, the Interior Ministry announced. According to the statement issued ...
Saudi Arabia’s latest plan to “reform” jihadis is getting positive reviews from Agence France Presse: Saudis use soft touch to ‘save’ former militants. The care centre is Saudi Arabia’s front line for ensuring that Al-Qaeda does not rear its head again, after a series of lethal domestic attacks between ...
Uh oh. HispanicBusiness.com - Conservative Blogger: Bush Also Bowed Before the Saudi King. Look out. Sanity is out of style.
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Sharia, Apartheid, Barack Obama, George W. Bush
Here’s an open thread for Monday morning, for everyone who wants to yell at me some more for pointing out that by bowing to King Abdullah, Barack Obama was simply following the well-documented, well-known tradition of US Presidents to pander to the Saudis. To sum up, presidential pandering to the ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Sharia, Apartheid, Barack Obama, George W. Bush
More than a few people on the right are screaming that Barack Obama should be impeached for bowing to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Those of you who are buying into this hyperventilating nonsense need to see this video. (Click the image to watch.) This deference to a very ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Sharia, Apartheid, Barack Obama, George W. Bush
Lots of people blogging about (what appears to be) Barack Obama’s obsequious bow to the ruler of one of the most repressive theocracies on the planet, Saudi Arabia, at the G20 meeting in London: But lest we forget, this toadying to the religious apartheid kingdom didn’t start with our ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Sharia, Apartheid, Barack Obama, George W. Bush
The corrupt, obscenely wealthy rulers of Saudi Arabia continue playing Wahhabi bait-and-switch, promising reforms and delivering only more of the same Dark Ages misogyny. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Visitors to a women’s job training center heard terrified screams — and rushed to see an agent of the religious ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Sharia
More of the ugly misogyny that makes the religious apartheid Kingdom of Saud so special: Saudis order 40 lashes for elderly woman for mingling. (CNN) — A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Sharia
Our friends the Saudis wasted no time putting the thumbscrews on our new hopenchange President: Obama discusses Gaza with Saudi ruler. WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday asked Saudi King Abdullah for support in halting weapons smuggling into Gaza and underscored the importance of U.S.-Saudi ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Oil, Economy, Militant Islam, Barack Obama
The highest Islamic authority in Saudi Arabia comes out strongly in favor of child molestation. Saudi Arabia’s most senior Muslim cleric has been quoted as saying it is ‘okay’ for 10-year-old girls to marry. Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh was quoted as saying those who think such girls are too ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Child Abuse
A columnist for a Saudi newspaper stood up and called for the “religious police” to be abolished. Abdallah bin Bakhit, Saudi liberal and columnist for the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, stated in an interview on Al-Arabiya that “the time has passed” for the Saudi religious police, and that it should ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Free Speech, Mutaween, Religious Police
Syrian-born Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid responds to the evil Christians, Jews, and other infidels who accused him of calling for Mickey Mouse to be killed. (Courtesy of the evil Jewish infidels at MEMRI TV.) [Video] Interviewer: Arab and Western media accused you of issuing a fatwa about the killing ...
At a special session of the United Nations General Assembly, the leader of the religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia will sit down in the same room with an Israeli for the first time. What would bring Abdullah to do this, an act that must be repugnant to him? Answer: ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Blasphemy, Free Speech, United Nations
Islamic clerics in Saudi Arabia have been on a crusade (can I use that word?) to shut down Western-influenced media, and now their wrath is turned upon the heathen astrologers: The MEMRI Blog - Saudi Sheikh: Kill Hosts of Horoscope Programs. Member of the High Judicial Council in Saudi ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Sharia, Ramadan, Television, Media, Wahhabism, RoP
Saudi clerics are raging and seething about the Turkish soap operas (dubbed into Arabic) that are becoming very popular in the religious apartheid kingdom, and they’re calling for people to be killed. “If they continue airing depravity and shamelessness they should be banished from this place and others brought ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Sharia, Ramadan, Television, Media, Wahhabism
I’m not the biggest fan of Disneyland, but this seems a little extreme. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Following is an excerpt from a religious program featuring Saudi Cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid, which aired on Al-Majd TV on August 27, 2008: Muhammad Al-Munajid: What is the position of Islamic law ...
The chief of Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Judiciary Council has issued a fatwa letting Muslims know that if a TV channel airs “immoral” content during Ramadan, it’s OK to murder the owners. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is ...
These are the kinds of court rulings that put big smiles on the faces of our friends the Saudis: Court: Saudi Arabia not liable in 9/11 attacks. A federal appeals court today rejected lawsuits by victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against Saudi Arabia and senior members of ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Islam, 9/11, Terrorism, Legal Jihad
Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid exhibits that noxious mix of misogyny and Islamic supremacism for which our friends the Saudis are infamous, in a sick rant about women’s “private parts” being exposed in the Olympics. Of course, to Neanderthals like this an ankle is a private part. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Islam, Sharia, Misogyny, Olympics
One of Saudi Arabia’s arbiters of sharia law has been arrested in Dubai for possession of drugs. DUBAI - A Saudi judge who served as head of an Islamic court has been arrested in the Gulf emirate of Dubai on charges of possessing and using drugs, a newspaper reported ...
The act of a deeply dysfunctional society: Saudi religious police ban pet cats and dogs. Saudi Arabia’s religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making ...