Thursday, November 16, 2006

For god sake, get out of your stone age..

[Orignally Posted January 16 2006]

While the world is debating issues like next generation internet, cloning, space stations and high speed information networks, Saudi's are still stuck in the stone age debating issues like women driving and movie theaters. It doesnt get any more pathetic than this and its published in the news papers..





Why No Cinemas?
Source: ArabNews
Saud Al-Balawi • Al-Watan —

This question might be asked by many Saudis who remember seeing films in theaters in the Kingdom as recently as the 1970’s. Certainly the question might be asked by those who travel hundreds — or even thousands of miles — to watch films in neighboring countries. Essentially, cinema is no different from watching TV; indeed many films are shown on our satellite TV stations.

Still, watching a film in a theater is somehow more exciting that watching it at home — and this has made companies run after the profits to be made by opening theaters.

Many people still fondly remember the films once shown in the Al-Hamra Movie Theater in Jeddah. Children saved money from their monthly allowances in order to have outings at the cinema. Last Eid after Ramadan, some hotels in Riyadh began showing children’s film. All indications are that the children who saw the films enjoyed the experience. After the films were shown, the Information Ministry said that it had not issued a permit. The truth is that many people wish the ministry would license movie theaters while others, for their own reasons, hope the ministry will not.

There are people who reject the idea totally. The fear of something new has long been a part of our culture — look at our initial reactions to radio and television. In the past, cinemas were closed because a group in society wanted them closed. These days, many want to see cinemas in the Kingdom as a means of entertainment similar to TV and coffee shops. Our Saudi idea of privacy, which is really a form of isolation, is a problem. Just when we seem about to catch up with the rest of the world, we realize we are trapped far behind. Change will surely come — it has in the past — and it will just as surely be resisted by some.

With its accession to the WTO, Saudi Arabia will witness both economic and social changes. I believe that not being in touch with other cultures will isolate us and make us misunderstood strangers. Rejecting the idea of a cinema is no different from other rejections in the past.
In the past, people rejected the idea of satellite dishes. Now we see them on every rooftop. If we had cinema, it would be under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Culture. Just as virtue is protected in wedding halls, educational institutions and in public, so it will be protected in cinemas. I am sure no one would be forced to go into a cinema and neither should one who wants to enter be prevented from doing so.

Many people, Saudis and non-Saudis, want to enjoy themselves and escape from the pressures of their daily lives. Entertainment could provide a way; it would give people pleasure and enable them to see joy in the faces of their children.

Binladen dynasty has nasty genes

[Orignally Posted December 24 2005]
Wafa Dafour (BinLaden) - Just whats the big frigging deal!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4555430.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051223/ap_en_ot/bin_laden_s_niece
http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_4071

ok So Osama Bin Laden's niece had been posing nearly nude for a US magazine. So whats the big fucking deal?? Hundeds of girls pose naked for magazines and internet in the US, Europe and rest of the world. What makes her so special about posing semi-nude that every news website had to carry a news story about her in the most twisted and erotic language they can??? oh may be because the is releated to Osama and is a Saudi origin. Perhaps she can be a candinate for my website www.nakedsaudigirls.com . Or wait, dont bother she is really really ugly and doesnt deserve a look. Well Wafa, we all know you are trying to earn cheap 15 seconds of fame by using your "famous" uncle's name and thats is why you keep bring it up in every statement of yours. Because you are soo ugly, no one would give a shit about you otherwise, but now atleast they have something to releate with you. Ohh my god she is "niece of Osama" kind of attitude.

Readers, do yourself a favour. Do not crawl the internet searching for Wafa pictures, buy yourself a playboy at your local store.

Holocaust deniers gassing their own nation

[Orignally Posted December 23 2005]

While Iranian politicians cite soo strongly against the west and take aggresive stand in their useless nuclear program, they are really doing very little for their own nation.

Source: Newsweek




MSNBC.com
Choking in Tehran Global attention may be focused on Iranian President Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denials, but residents of its capital city have other concerns.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Maziar Bahari
Newsweek
Updated: 4:39 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2005

Dec. 22, 2005 - Even by Tehran's dismal standards, the onset of winter was catastrophic. As temperatures dropped, pollution levels rose. Dangerous gases, including carbon monoxide, blanketed the Iranian capital, straining its residents' hearts and lungs. Tehran's Emergency Medical Services reported that the number of people experiencing cardiac episodes jumped from a daily summer average of 40 to 50 to a massive 400 to 700 during the second week of December.

Tehran already has more than its share of problems. Its new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has drawn international opprobrium for his Holocaust denials and suggestion that Israel should be moved to Europe. Foreign governments are trying to curb Iran's nuclear program. Its leaders are accused of trying to intervene in last week's Iraq election by trucking in fake ballots favoring Shiite candidates. Earlier this month, an Iranian military plane trying to make an emergency landing crashed into an apartment building, leaving 105 dead. But for residents of the capital, there's a more pressing crisis: the city's worsening smog.

What causes the toxicity? One reason is Tehran's unfortunate geography. The capital is sited in a bowl surrounded by mountains, which means that fumes and exhaust gases are trapped during cool weather. Then there are the cars. "The main reason for the pollution in Tehran is personal vehicles," says Mohammah Hadi Haydarzadeh, an adviser to the Iranian government’s Environment Organization. Half of Iran's 6 million private cars are jammed into the capital, spewing fumes as they inch around a congested city that offers minimal public transport for its 12 million residents. Many, if not most, of these vehicles are decrepit jalopies running on leaded gas. "Most of the cars manufactured in the country didn't meet safety and environmental standards," says Haydarzadeh. “We recently started to regulate the cars. But the old ones are still allowed to drive in the city." The result, says Haydarzadeh, was that last year Tehran experienced only 123 "clean" days, when pollution was below harmful levels. The final tally for 2004, he says, is expected to be even worse.

Iran's leaders say they are working to solve the problem. Six years ago, nine government groups promised to work together to clean the capital's air by 2011. But, as is so often the case, the effort has been dogged by infighting and intra-agency disagreements. In a recent meeting, the Environment Organization’s Khalagh Mirnia accused Tehran's mayor of ignoring the law and purchasing new gasoline-burning buses despite a decision requiring them to be phased out by 2006. "We know the objective: to have a Tehran with clean air," says Mirnia. "But there is no real will to do anything."

Meanwhile, Tehran residents are suffering. Casual visitors often experience headaches, irritated eyes or nausea after just a few hours in the city. Children, whose developing brains are most susceptible to lead poisoning, are especially vulnerable. The impact of the bad air quality on their health is not fully known because studies on elementary-school students' test rates are kept secret. But according to an official in Iran's Ministry of Education who did not want to be named, the number of Tehran children who perform too poorly to be promoted to the next grade is rising every year. "The number [of failures] is incomparable to the rest of the country," says the official. "We are almost sure that this has to do with the air pollution in the city." At one point this month, air quality deteriorated to the point that authorities had to shut down all schools and government offices for several days. The government also introduced new laws restricting traffic in central Tehran in a bid to clean the air.

Tehranis, however, are not impressed. "These are temporary solutions to a long-term problem," says Haydarzadeh. Mahnaz Rasooli, a 44-year-old teacher, is more outspoken. "Why doesn't our government care about the people in this country for a change?" she asks. "Our children and old people are suffering every day." Earlier that day, Rasooli had experienced such severe breathing problems she sought help at a hospital emergency room. She waited for four hours before a doctor performed a cursory examination and sent her home. "He said he couldn't do anything. The doctor's only suggestion was to leave Tehran for a while," says Rasooli. "But how can I do that? How would I support myself and my family?"

Like many in the city, Rasooli sees the government's failure to reduce pollution as a symbol of its inefficiency in other areas too. Referring to President Ahmadinejad's controversial comments that "Germany and Austria should create a country for the Zionists in one of their provinces if they feel so guilty about what happened [during World War II]," she says: "It's not his business to tell other people to move somewhere else." On this day, though, her energy is primarily focused on navigating her way through a thick cloud of exhaust fumes on the city's clogged streets. "Living in this city," she says, "is like living in a gas chamber."

© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.
© 2005 MSNBC.com
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10577041/site/newsweek/

Run away girls in Saudi


[Orignally Posted December 16 2005]

Talk about a "perfect" "equal rights" "islamic" "women respecting" society...Bullshit..

such things are common occurance in Saudi Arabia. A typical Saudi male mind is nothing but full with prejudice and hatred towards women classifying them as "evil creation" and object or sexual satisfaction only. Lets recall the famous Hadith's "women are created for men pleasure".


NUMBER OF RUNAWAY GIRLS INCREASES

Source: Saudi Gazette
Comments in BLUE text
By Sabria S. Jawhar
The Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH/MADINA

SITTING in a far corner with her back to one of the Prophet Mosque s pillar praying and reading the Qur an, the young woman was covering almost half of her face with her headscarf and holding the holy book close to her face in an attempt to hide it from people around her.
As a habit in the Prophet s Mosque, people in Madinah offer coffee and dates to those who are sitting around them between prayer times. A stranger walked up to her offered her a cup of coffee.

The young woman stretched her hand with a smile that showed a perfect set of teeth and looked with her wide dark brown eyes.

Thank you, I cannot drink coffee. I have a stomach ache, she said with a tearful smile. At that moment she told her story to a stranger about her tears and the injury to her right cheek.
Seham is 25 and by any standard extremely beautiful. Unlike other women her age, her beauty has never been a grace. On the contrary, it has been a curse, she said.

Some times when I look at the mirror I feel that I want to burn my face just to live a normal life like the rest of the girls at my age, she said.

Wherever Seham goes, she hears the praise and the looks of admiration that follow her even among the women. Her father s recognition of her beauty has made him put more pressure on her than on her sisters.

He chases me whereever I go and suspects each phone call that I receive, she said, Even my younger brothers have been turned into spies on me.
Her father used to call her the daughter of devil because each time she goes out with him for shopping he has an argument with the men who try to tease her or even follow her with their eyes.

To rid himself of this burden, her father got her married when she was only 17 years old. The husband was not much better than the father as he called her names and accused her of tempting his brother. After five years of torture she asked for divorce and went back to her family s home.

This time, according to my father s point of view, I am only a divorced beautiful young woman who can commit any sin without anyone knowing. Simply I am not a virgin anymore, she said.
The treatment got worse with her father beating her on the face. One day, the phone rang and a man whom she does not know asked for her by name. The father woke her up in the middle of the night beating with a stick.

I did not know why until later. So I waited till they all fell asleep and I ran to my friend s house for two weeks, she said.

The family reported her missing to the police that eventually found her and held her in custody until the father came to take her.

I could see the rage in his eyes despite the police officer s attempts to calm him down, she said.
Runaway girls have become a phenomenon in Saudi society that specialists are taking a keen interest in. Last year a study by the Ministry of Interior had shown that there are 3,285 reported cases of running away or absence in Saudi Arabia. Among those cases, 850 young girls and women were reported as runaways.

The continuing problem is accompanied with child abuse and has pushed the Saudi government to tackle these issues publicly. The government also has begun issuing related decrees like a social protection shelter for runaway girls or those who are subject to physical or sexual abuse.

Wafaa Sa di, head of the Social Protection Department at the Ministry of Social Affair and the director of the Social Protection Shelter in Jeddah, attributes the runaways to being exposed to the outside world through satellite channels.
Yeah right blame everything on the internet and satellite TV channels. You are good in running a "Ministry for Bullshiting". Humans do not need Internet or satellite TV to teach them right to respect and freedom.

Those satellite channels have entered the Saudi houses and taught the girls not to tolerate anything from their parents, Sa di said. It taught them that there are human rights associations and that they should not stand whatever their parents do to them.
As i said, presence of satllite channels does not matter when it comes to human right. But the point your are trying to make here is more like "due to advancement of satellite channels and internet, we are losing control over abusing our women and they are standing against it". When there is abuse, there is a rebellion.

The director of the shelter said she believes that beating sometimes is a good way to educate and discipline children who should tolerate their parents temper.
Yeah talk about abusive parents bitch, i think your husband should beat you in submisson so you will give him a blow job.

She said domestic violence is not the main reason behind the increasing percentage of runaway girls. On the contrary, she said, imitating the West is the cause of those family problems that lead girls to run away. Children, she explained, learn new values that contradict those of their society then try to implement them, which leads to confrontation.
Bullshiting is a typical Saudi trait, to blame everything on west. Get the point bitch, beating your women and kids is not accecptable. Its abusive. I wonder what kind of qualification you have.

Parents are always noble, she said, Even when they beat, they do that for education.
Ohh how great, a father acusses the girl to be prostittute and call her daughter of devil and you this its cool. How does that father is being eduative by such actions.

Sharaf Al-Ghirafi, head of the Women and Child Protection Committee at the Ministry of Social Affairs, said the issue hasn t reached a crisis stage yet.
Yeah we see Rania Al-Baz hopping from one airport to another making statements on Tv's and earning her cheap fame. Yet the situation is still not a crisis.

It is still individual cases, she said. We are an Islamic conservative society that will never mistreat children to the extent that make them leave the house or run away.
One word, BULLSHIT

However, she said, those few cases usually occur among teenagers and due to either family problems or peer pressure. Some girls, she said, do not actually run away from their houses, they just go to a coffee shop with their friends after school but without their family s permission, forcing parents report them absent.
What a nonsense, does staying away for few hours count as missing. Thats was a very poor attempt to coverup miss. Dont they have mobile phones to report to parents. And how much time does a human spends in coffe shop, 1 hour, 2 hours, 3, 4, 6???? is that the parents threshold to report their kids missing. Well most parents with such low threshold simply belive their daughters a prostitues.

But sometimes, she said, girls and young women run away when they are a subject to domestic violence or psychological abuse. Her administration, she said, usually works in cooperation with the police, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice and the Ministries of Health and Education to deal with those cases. When a girl is arrested, they call the family and investigate the reasons behind her running away.
If you were really doing this job, then you wouldnt be making such nonsense ignorant comments above. What a self contradiction.

We work hard to calm down both sides to bring them together, Ghirafi said. The aim is to increase their level of awareness about the possible results of such a behavior on both social and individual level.

Abeer, (not her real name), is now 22 years old. She recalled when she ran away from her family because of her addicted father's sexual harassment.

One night I was woken up by a hand that closed my mouth and another one trying to find its way to take my clothes off, Abeer said. I called my father but he did not reply. Actually, he was the one trying to take the most precious thing in my life. Since then my younger sister and I could not sleep at night thinking that he might attack any of us anytime.
But your social experts belive that your father might be doing this for educational reason. What was he trying to teach?? Anyone's imagination at work??

Abeer told her divorced mother but she could not help because she was married to another man who does not allow her to have any contact with her children. The father s attempts to rape his daughters went on and on with no help. One day, she said, she saw him trying to drag her younger sister telling her that he will buy her a doll if she let him do whatever he wants.
Well when you have a society of extreme segration and women coverd like jewels, then you will have such deprived men willing to do anything and anyone. By the way, didn't the Mutaw'a Ministry issued a verdict saying doll is haram??

I got scared and I pulled and hid my sister behind me to receive tons of slaps on my face, Abeer said. When he got tired he went to bed and slept.
Atleast it was an appreciative steps when your own social experts and authorities wont come to help or even admit the exsistence of problems. But then they will argue that the father was trying to teach something to his daughters so its human breed in two different directions.

Abeer left the house at night walking a long distance to the police station. Officers took her to an orphanage where she was kept with her sister.
But no arrest of for the offender!!! where is your islamic justice???

The shelter was a suitable place for a while, she said, but after several months it turned into a prison where they have to follow rules that were difficult.

We had to wear and eat whatever they brought us, she said, I was not allowed to visit or see my friend at school.

Abeer left the orphanage to live at her uncle s house. She got married and took her sister with her but she still carries those memories.

Those bad memories will never leave my mind, she said. I did not know where to go: to an addicted father or to a big prison. There was not a middle road for a solution.

Ghirafi said there is no protection shelter in Madinah. When they shift girls from the home, which is rare, they send them to orphanages or charity organizations.

Those orphanages are established based on a family-like system where they can find a warm atmosphere similar to that of the family, she said.

But generally speaking there is nothing like a family, she said.

Hanan Mugbool, a social worker at the Psychological Health Hospital in Jeddah, agreed that those cases are only individual ones despite the lack of accurate statistics. Girls who run away are either drug addicts or psychologically unstable girls, she added.Very good interpretion and a coward attempt again to deny the problem of family abuse.

The cases are transferred to us either from the police or the orphanages, she said.
The Psychological Health Hospital is not prepared for receiving such cases as permanent residents.

She classified running away girls under two categories: A complete runaway is when a girl flees with her lover in order to get married due to the family rejection, which is rare. The second type is partial fleeing when a girl runs away for a month or so due to domestic violence or increasing pressure. She said most of the Saudi cases fall under the second category because of the lack of permanent shelters like those in the West.
Then where do the cases of above mention girls fit in. None of them flee homes to get married or on temporary basis

In the Western countries, a girl can leave the house and lead an independent life after 18, she said. But in our conservative society they cannot.
Better called, retarded slaveminded society

To avoid the dramatic increase in those cases that would affect the fabric of the society structure, Mugbool called for more strict legal procedures to protect girls from physical or emotional abuse from their male relatives.
Yeah right, all talk and no actions. Just give women their rights and freedom and cut the root of the problem away.

The family has to be more open to the natural social change and accept the fact that their children belong to a different generation from theirs, she said, This does not mean leaving them without supervision. They have to be indirectly supervised and taught right and wrong, she said.
When your nation is compromised of such retard minded sick people, no wonder your future generations are also goin to be waste of human flesh on earth

NAKED SAUDI GIRLS

[Orignall Posted December 11 2005]

So i shell out a few bucks last night and registered myself the domain nakedsaudigirls.com. Yeah ok it sounds pornographic. But "naked saudi girls" is one of the most popular search term on google. From inside Saudi Arabia as well as from outside. It denotes the high intrest of internet surfers with naked saudi girls. Especially those who are inside Saudi Arabia, probably because they see them all covered head to toe all the time, the curosity gets them best to peek under the veils and internet is the best place to start with. But not under veils of saudi women, sorry to dissapoint you, internet surfers.

In reality, there is no website on the internet featuring "naked saudi girls". Atleast not one in my knowledge upto date but if something like that does steps in future then sure im getting some big bucks for my domain. Not sure if i would be really intrested in selling it. I rather keep it as a brave gadget name. Perhaps a free mail service yourname@nakedsaudigirls.com might be a good tease or lure. The facination is that, finding "naked saudi girls" on the internet is nearly impossible if not totally impossible at the time of writting this blog.

Meantime, below is an article from Howard Musing blog published in Feburary 2003. This article comes as the first result on google when u query for "naked saudi girls"




I keep getting hits for the search term naked saudi girls. I understand the allure of naked Saudi girls -- well naked Saudi women, anyway. (I'll give the searcher the benefit of the doubt, and assume that he means "girls" in the red-light district "Girls! Girls! Girls!" sense.) There are no naked Saudi girls on the page it links to, nor (as far as I know) on this entire site, I wondered who might search Google and my site for naked Saudi girls, so I checked my site's log:

t1:/$ tail -400 /var/log/apache/path/to/access.log grep naked
212.138.47.27 - - [08/Feb/2003:07:42:08 -0800]
"GET /2002/11/17.html HTTP/1.0" 200 22948
"http://www.google.com/search?q=naked+saudi+girls&
ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=ar&lr="
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

OK, so the hit came from IP address 212.138.47.27.
Wonder who that is?
Anyone care to venture a guess? t1:/$ whois 212.138.47.27

% This is the RIPE Whois server.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/pub-services/db/copyright.html
inetnum:
212.138.47.0 - 212.138.47.255
netname: ISU-5
descr: Internet Service
Unit ISU
country: SA
admin-c: KR6046-RIPE
tech-c: KR6046-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: KACST-ISU-MNT
mnt-lower: KACST-ISU-MNT
remarks: ------------------------------------------------------
remarks:
Part of this IP block has been used for proxy/cache
remarks: service at the
National level in Saudi Arabia. All
remarks: Saudi Arabia web traffic will
come from this IP block.
remarks:
remarks: NOTE: If you experience high
volume of traffic from
remarks: IP in this block it is because your site is
very
remarks: popular/famous of Saudi Arabia community.
remarks:
------------------------------------------------------
changed:
ipreg@saudinic.net.sa 19991005
changed: ipreg@saudinic.net.sa 19991212
changed: ipreg@saudinic.net.sa 20010707
source: RIPE
route:
212.138.0.0/16
descr: Saudi Arabia backbone and local registry address space
origin: AS8895
holes: 212.138.64.0/22
holes: 212.138.68.0/23
holes: 212.138.70.0/24
notify: abuse@isu.net.sa
mnt-by: ISU-NOC
changed: abuse-tj@isu.net.sa 20000114
changed: abuse-tj@isu.net.sa
20011112
source: RIPE
role: KACST ROLE
address: Saudi Network
Information Center, ISU
address: King Abdulaziz City for Science and
Technology,
address: P.O.Box 6086, Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia.
phone:
+9661 481 3932
fax-no: +9661 481 3254
e-mail: ipreg@saudinic.net.sa
trouble: abuse@isu.net.sa
admin-c: ZOM1-RIPE
tech-c: RA705-RIPE
tech-c: ANAS1-RIPE
nic-hdl: KR6046-RIPE
remarks: This Role object is
for handling and maintaining all
remarks: IP Blocks registered by
SaudiNIC(LIR) in Saudi Arabia.
mnt-by: KACST-ISU-MNT
changed:
ipreg@saudinic.net.sa 20010701
source: RIPE



My goodness, what a surprise! It comes from the jewel of Wahabbism, Saudi Arabia. And during the Hajj, no less. Clearly they have no shame. Where's the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice when you need it? Probably busy. Did you happen to notice this notice from above?

remarks: Part of this IP block has been used for proxy/cache
remarks: service at the National level in Saudi Arabia. All
remarks: Saudi Arabia web traffic will come from this IP block.


All Saudi Arabia web traffic goes through a proxy server, so it will probably give Sheik Disappointed a warm feeling to know that they've recorded his web search too.


Posted by Howard Hansen at February 8, 2003 02:19 PM

Harry potty-head is really GAY!!

[Orignally posted December 03 2005]

Lets get it straight, harry potter sucks. He is a nonsense moron who is an incarnation of drunk imagination. I mean what kind of talent do you to need to be able to spew out serial of harry potter bullshit. One can get high in cheap herbs / pot, have their hallucinated imagination go wild and write pages and pages of bullshit. JK Rowling is really a loser and waste of precious oxygen in this era of pollution and over population. Executing her will be one favour to man kind or else we can see all out future generation reading Harry Potter and statues of Mary in church replaced by one of JK Rowling.

Harry Potter makes kids belive in stupid things like magic wands, flying broom and carpets. As well makes them play stupid Harry Potter games all day when they could be doing something more usefull, like situps. It makes them waster their parents hard earned money and injure themself my playing stupid games like jumping off the window on a broom.

Now to my interpretation that Harry Potter is really gay. No matter how big of a nerd he is, no guy on earth with such magical powers would be so innocent to not to use them for his own benefits once in a while. Especially when he's got a pretty chick escort named Hermoine. I mean look at the possibilites, he could make Hermoine boobs grow bigger, make her naked with a spin of a wand and even get her horny as hell in a fraction of second. But why Harry wont take such advantage?? Well not because he is a nerd or "respecting" dude, but because he is gay and has intrest in men, especially his ugly hairy fat buddy dont remember what ever his name is.

Harry has got weird scar, which when stared gives him a headache. What a nonsense, scars are marks left on damanged tissues due to injuries. But one giving headache when stared at is a bit superficial even in the world of magicians. Lets face it, its no scar but his asshole sticking there. So yeah Harry, you shit from your head.

Propoganda facists speaks at Dar Al-Hekma, on visit of Karen Huges

[Orignally Posted December 02 2005]


Saudi girls denounced general image of Arab woman in US media
Saudi female students stun tell Bush aide

Source: Middle East Online
Personal comment in blue text

Karen Hughes surprised and impressed by female students' outspokenness and intelligence.
By Isabel Malsang - JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia

US media are being disingenuous in portraying Arab women as unhappy and wronged, a close aide to President George W. Bush on a PR visit to Saudi Arabia was told this week.
And it came from the horse's mouth.

"We are happy. We want to show that image but the general image of the Arab woman in the American media is that she is not happy," a female student at Jeddah's private Dar al-Hekma university said during an encounter with US Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes, drawing thunderous applause from colleagues.
Offcourse you are happy, you are the rich top of the cream 1% who spends more days in Europe and America vacationing than number of days you attend the college. You simply dont have any awareness of what is goin on in the country or even worst, what is the law.

"Your media is not really as fair as it used to be," came another voice from among the crowd of women clad in the mandatory black "abaya" who gathered in an amphitheatre on Tuesday to "exchange" views with the American visitor.
You dont have to be in an abaya when you are with other women..

Students were given time off from classes for the event and nearly all 700 of them came to see Hughes, who was in Saudi Arabia as part of a tour also taking in Egypt and Turkey and which aimed at polishing America's battered image in the region.
As reporters accompanying Hughes on her tour listened, the girls - mostly Saudis but including some from other Arab countries -- said they had had enough of being portrayed as deprived of any rights.

"I don't want to drive, because I have my own driver," one of them defiantly told American journalists.
Offcourse if you can afford Dar-El-Hekma, you are then rich enough to afford not one but many drivers. I bet at your house, you have a Mercedes S600 with a sheaffur for your father, a GMC Denali SUV for your fat turd mamma and a GMC Subarban with tinted windows for you to whore around entire Jeddah with your lesbian girlfriend. Talk about the average 90% of the population who has to pay SR30-40 daily in taxi expenses.

Women in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia are banned from driving or mixing in public with men other than relatives.

But "it is not an absolute wall" between men and women, one of the students insisted, as another grabbed the microphone to wonder why US media tar all Muslims with the terrorism brush.
Old tricks not going to work. Why do you think Huges was there?? to polish US image abroad. Then whats the point asking stale questions.

Hughes was careful to tell her audience that "America should not seek to impose our will on Saudi Arabia."

She also applauded news in that day's local press that women would be allowed to work in Saudi Arabia, where only a limited number of professions are currently open to them.
And they will remain limited. The news announcement was offcourse a smoke screen.

Hughes overlooked the rest of the report, which referred to a new labor law allowing women to work "in all sectors compatible with their nature."
Lets see.. if they really want to provide equal oppurtunity to women, then i expect some chicks at McDonald counter soon.

The sectors have not been specified.
They will never be specified. The announcement was self-contradictory

The students of Dar al-Hekma were in no doubt that they would be able to work after graduating, even if they would not be able to drive to work.
80% of them will have to surrender to their parents will and be someone's house bitch. Whose name they even did not knew before marrige.

"We can change, we are going to change, but not by force from outside," Leen Assassa, a 19-year-old student of interior design who holds dual Syrian and British nationality, later said.
Syria = Saudi ass kissers. Now shut up. Atleast there is more social freedom in Syria than Saudi

She was covered from head to toe like her Saudi peers.
"America is trying to force its own opinion on us; the change will come from us," Assassa added.
You dont need a degree in political science to do that. They are forcing you Saudi's to change because they are tired of your horny disease inflicted men flooding to US every vacation season with their turbins aka terrible bins. Chasing women and turning to sucide bombing when failing to pick up any female.While their own ultra femnist women stay covered head to toe like a fairy from an ancient tale.

Chamane Rahim, a French-educated social sciences professor, explained that the students don't cover their heads in class "as we're all women."
May be they were afraid that Huges will use some coldwar era radio equipment which emit waves to affect and alter human behaviour and thinking process.

True, Saudi women still can't drive, "but it will come soon, Inshallah (God willing)," she said.
Hughes confided she had been "surprised" by what she heard but also "impressed by their (the girls') outspokenness and intelligence."
Yeah, in a sacrastic sense. When you posses nothing execpt Islamo-Wahabi idealogy, sure you can impress anyone with your medival "ideas" and "outspokeness"

"They clearly feel much a part of the debate in the society even though they don't have the right to vote nor to drive," she said.
Thats unfair, 700 vs 1 in a debate. Wait to start, it wasnt even a debate. Huges went there to give a speech not debate.

NB: this article was orginally publish on 01 October 2005 but i deleted and reposted it again with some text alteration.