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Saudis: No Jews Allowed

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sauditourism.gov.sa">sauditourism.gov.sa”>Visit beautiful Saudi Arabia! Enjoy the unique customs and time-honored traditions of the desert kingdom and its warm, friendly, hospitable people!

Unless, of course, you’re a Jew. In which case, may Allah destroy you.

WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Anthony Weiner, a frequent critic of United States policy toward Saudi Arabia, said Thursday that the Middle East country’s new visa policy outlined on a tourist Web site should be quickly condemned by American officials.

The Web site, promoting a new Saudi program to offer tourist visas to encourage more foreign visitors, lists four groups not entitled to tourist visas, including “Jewish People.”

The Saudi government has traditionally only issued travel visas for employment, Hajj pilgrimages, and other visits with official sanction.

In addition to Jews, the Web site by the Supreme Commission for Tourism also says it will refuse visas to anyone with an Israeli passport or a passport that has an Israeli stamp.

“It is very difficult to see the Saudis as anything other than a backward country with backward ideals and this reaffirms that,” said Weiner. “I think the administration should take a hard look at this Web site and decide whether a country that has these policies should be considered our ally.”

The Saudi Arabian web site linked above is apparently where this bigoted, hateful policy was stated, but (surprise!) it looks like someone over there got nervous about the publicity and yanked it. The Guardian has some quotes from the disappeared copy:

The supreme commission for tourism’s website lists those who will not be allowed in: Jews; people with Israeli stamps in their passport; “those who don’t abide by the Saudi traditions concerning appearance and behaviour”, and “those under the influence of alcohol”.

The “no Jews” clause was posted there so briefly that Google didn’t get a cached copy of it either.

UPDATE: Luckily, Allah had his screen capture thing going on. Here’s what they deleted.

UPDATE: And LGF reader lawhawk informs us that Google did cache the page: sauditourism.gov.sa">sauditourism.gov.sa”>right here.

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