Posted on 06/04/2005 2:08:06 PM PDT by CHARLITE
I hope you figure it out the next time you fill up your tank.
I agree that we are in the opening salvos of a world war. Besides the IslamoFascists, the number one enemy is the democrat party.
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There were 20. I bailed.
This article is about people being rounded up like cattle and you're worried about sentence structure??? Get a life.
"The liberal establishment is absolutely evil and must be utterly destroyed."
Oddly enough... the "globalists" fight for / or against the same things as the liberals.
Go figure.
Precisely!!
Divine intuition.
Lies, desires, and deflection are his weapons. Your religion is now his.
C.A.I.R. is silent.
When it comes down to that, I'm ready. They are truly enemies of this country.
A better question is how freaking royalty coexists with Islam.
Listen people, we are doing it to ourselves. No one stands up to these anti-Christians. Christians complain but are mute.
Arabia has been inhabited for thousands of years by nomadic Semitic tribes. With the birth (AD 570) of Muhammad, in Mecca, Arabia was briefly the center of Islam, but by the end of the 7th cent. the area was disunited. Modern Saudi Arabia owes its existence to Ibn Saud, an adherent of the Wahhabi Muslim sect. Beginning in 1902 he conquered the Nejd, Al Hasa, and Hejaz regions, and in 1932 he proclaimed himself king of a united Saudi Arabia. Oil was discovered in 1936; commercial production began in 1938. Ibn Saud died in 1953 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Saud. In 1964 Saud was deposed by Faisal, who secured (1974) an agreement giving the Saudis a 60% majority ownership of foreign oil concessions in their country. In 1975 Faisal was assassinated; he was replaced by Khalid, who inaugurated a program of industrialization and social welfare. In the conflict with Israel, Saudi Arabia has generally supported the Arab states, although as a friend of the U.S. it is a somewhat moderating force. Its moderating influence has also been felt in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), in which it usually has acted to stabilize petroleum prices. Khalid died in 1982 and was succeeded as king by Fahd. Military clashes, oil-policy disputes, and rioting Iranian pilgrims in Mecca led Saudi Arabia to sever diplomatic relations with Iran in 1989.
>..the Phillipino ambassador groveled..<
What else could he do? Let his people be executed? You should know that Philippino laborers work under conditions akin to modern-day slavery.
I don't see the American ambassador stand up for the American expatriates. Go see the conditions in Riyadh, Jubail and Yanbu. We too kiss up to the Saudis on a daily basis and we are supposed to be a super power?
Back in the 70's we had a large workforce of South Koreans who were also in Saudi to protect the country in the event of an invasion. They were never issued weapons because the Saudis were afraid that the Koreans would take over. Every one of them was ex-military.
No criticism was intended toward the Filipino official. I understand very well what the Filipinos face in the Kingdom, in fact, that was my point.
As you infer, even though the US is the Kingdom's closest ally, Americans are forced to keep their worship services low-profile. Where they have been too indiscrete, and especially where they have been so foolish as to involve locals, they have been broken up as well. Saudis who convert, as you know, are executed, and anyone, even an American, who does anything that can be construed as "proselytizing" a Saudi is in serious trouble.
American chaplains during the first Gulf War had to be referred to as "morale officers" and had to remove the crosses from their lapels, if I remember correctly.
The Saudis maintain that they have "freedom of religion" because they allow non-muslims to work in the kingdom. But they are ruthless in suppressing non-muslim religious expression, and even non-Wahab Islam, for that matter.
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