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Kizzume
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 Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject: U.S. Woman Jailed in S. Arabia for Sitting With Man at Starb |
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I hate the fact that I can't even make the subject title as long as the field to type it in.
This is supposed to be the title (that I shortened and it still didn't fit):
"American Woman Jailed in Saudi Arabia for Sitting With Man at Starbucks"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,329151,00.html
| Quote: | A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia's religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh, according to a report in The Times of London on Thursday.
Yara, who does not want her last name published for fear of retribution, was bruised and crying when she was freed from a day in prison after she was strip-searched, threatened and forced to sign false confessions by the Kingdom's "Mutaween" police, The Times reported.
"Some men came up to us with very long beards and white dresses. They asked 'Why are you here together?'. I explained about the power being out in our office. They got very angry and told me what I was doing was a great sin," recalled Yara, who wears an abaya and headscarf, like most Saudi women. |
Now, as I feel it wasn't necessarily very smart of her to not look into their customs, I just really have less and less respect for those cultures. I just wish those cultures didn't exist at all sometimes. They're so fucking backwards there, it's insane.
Women have less rights there than camels do. It's atrocious.
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Saudi Arabia badly, desperately needs to get bombed. Just sayin'.
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Chalk up another one for the so-called "religion of peace."
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I really think it's unfortunate that we rely on Saudi oil so much. If this country would bite the bullet and start SERIOUSLY looking into alternate sources for energy in general and alternate sources for oil, like drilling in other parts of the U.S., like in Alaska and such, we could stop relying on the middle eastern countries. Once we do that, we could pretty much cut them off. ALL the Islamic countries. Cut them off completely. Don't trade with them ANYTHING, don't let ANYONE from those countries come into this country, and deport all those who were born and raised in those countries who are not citizens of the U.S. back to those countries. COMPLETELY cut them off. No trade, no travel, no help, NOTHING.
When Islamic-based countries put up HUGE billboards of the people who have killed themselves to kill Americans to put them up on a pedestal as martyrs, and they treat women with such disrespect, and they have 1,000,000 or so exact rules that you can get beat to a bloody pulp if you don't follow them EXACTLY, it seems to me that they don't deserve ANYTHING. No help, no trade, and no travel. Let 'em stew in their own shit while their kings treat everyone like crap while they live in lavish palaces--the people seem to want it because they believe it's the only way, so FUCK 'EM! Let 'em live that way in TOTAL isolation from the rest of the world. We don't bother them, they don't bother us.
I've gotten a lot harsher about this than I felt before, but I'm so SICK of seeing these kinds of stories and then we're supposed to somehow feel sorry for them.
Some cultures are just flat-out CRAP!
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