Posted on 05/21/2017 4:29:52 AM PDT by NYer
Perhaps even more important in terms of Saudi daily life, the women in attendance at functions did not wear head coverings and abayas. The entire nation saw this on television and understands that the fracking-created global oil glut changes everything, that the infidels no longer cower in fear of a cutoff of the oil Allah granted to the protectors of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The old arguments of the fanatics hold less water.
Change is coming. The king signaled that the restrictions declared by the Wahhabi clergy are no longer the ultimate arbiter of personal behavior, and that Saudis are going to have to start respecting the customs of the infidels. Something like his handshake gesture can seem trivial, quaint, or even humorous to Americans, but it is very serious business. The role modeling of the women at the highest and most formal level reaches deep into the culture.
It is now clear that the king and his two designated successors (Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nyef and Mohammad bin Salman) have made a deal to liberalize Saudi Arabia. The deal-maker president has told them that there is a price of continued American support.
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This is a tangible and personal signal to the factions of the Saudi family represented in the high-level delegation. An Orthodox Jew, married to the favored child of the president (who became a Jew herself), saved them money using his personal connections. Call me suspicious, but I think this was carefully planned theatre. You have to see this against the background of the sudden new confluence of interests between Israel and Saudi Arabia, united in opposition to Iran and Arab radical Islamic terrorists.
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I think you completely missed the powerful symbology of this meeting’s dynamics.
Was joking with Mr Kitty last night. In the first picture, who are the Saudi’s scoping out. It isn’t Trump? LOL
Actually the hair is a bigger deal that it might seem to many westerners. I have read of accounts where women have been arrested in Muslim countries for just having a few strands showing, of women returning from trips to Western countries rushing to cover their hair before the plane lands. Wasn’t there a case here in US (NY?) where a father beat his adult daughter because she didn’t have her hair covered. In another case a Muslim faculty member (Missouri?) beat a relative because her hair wasn’t covered.
Not to mention The First Lady brought such glamor to an already pompous circumstance.
Yes-THE DAWA is not being addressed. It is in every institution-universities, public schools, civic organizations,NGO’s,public libraries...etc.
DRIVING ME INSANE.
Oooh Arab Spring. Freedom and peace coming to the Middle East soon.
I hope they’re right, but I ain’t putting money on it.
Obama bin Laden broke with Wahabbism while persuing war against the Soviets. With the creation of Al Qaeda in 1988, and with the subsequent fatwas issued by the organization, their ideology was pure Salafism, and their touchstone was Ibn Tammaya. Their modern guru was the Egyptian Sayyed Qutb, a man who has never been appreciated in Saudi Arabia. If you really want to know the names of important Saudis and Gulf Arabs who funded Al Qaeda just google Golden Chain.
I don’t believe this.
They fund schools all over the world teaching Islamism.
Let’s see what happens there.
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This is nothing more than Takiyya from the Saudis, who are hurting due to low oil prices. Muslims recognize this. They laugh at our naivety. Our economic leaders, who know better, have been bought off.
These are deferred arms sales. Multiply it by ten and call it a $350 billion deal.
More precisely, the Saudis’ actions are more like Mohammed’s Hudaybiyyah treaty: buying time.
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Any man would be out of his mind not to want to shake this woman’s hand. Hells Bells, I’d like to just stand next to her.
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