[Nicholas Conradin]

Eyes wide shut.

[jess35]

The mutawa could be assigned to fine dangerous drivers (intent to kill is haraam) or punish anyone seen littering

Oh riiiiight. The mutawa can beat people who litter with sticks just like they beat women who accidently display their ankles while walking through the souks.

The author obviously didn't visit the same Saudi Arabia that I lived in for 3 years.

[dr huer]

How can a 25 year old male go to flight school, learn how to fly a jet airplane. and immolate himself and 3,000 others in crashing his jet into the world trade center for what? 72 virgins in paradise? Unloved by one woman here, he is corrupted by a fatuous dream.
As a baby he is loved by his mother. As he grows and begins to resemble his father, who has mistreated his mother "as part of his religion", his mother denies him her love.
The 9/11 hijackers were half Saudi. Maybe Tanya C. Hsu can explain.

[thegreatbeast]

Ask how Americans can defend their preferred method of capital punishment by electrocuting women, minors and the mentally handicapped.

Certainly not as humane as beheading women and men in the public squares. Or beating schoolgirls who are "improperly dressed" as they try to escape their burning school.

[Americanexpat]

There would be no point in trying to reason with this woman, she is so extremely anti US it would be impossible.
If she hates the country so bad she can always go to another. Of course if she returns to Saudi on a permanent bases she will see another side of the Saudis. I have lived in three Muslim countries and I can say without a doubt she is full of shiite.

[DTogo]

In Riyadh's Bedu Souk I added a burqa and realized, for the first time in my adult life, men spoke directly to me rather than to a physique. That is respect.

She's delusional. But as a peacenik Lefty, that's no suprise.

[Alouette]

I received nothing on Saudi national patriotism. Can you not see?

Oh say, can you not see?

Americans fought the British Empire for their freedom and created the greatest, freest nation the world has ever known.

The caravan-looting robber gang of Saud received from the British Empire the patrimony of the Hashemite (who were later given 80% of the "Jewish National Homeland" as a consolation prize), as the loot for helping the British drive out the Turks (or the British helping them drive out the Turks).

[Lorianne]

If Saudi Arabia is so great, why not live there?

[Liberty Valance]

Like I just said on another thread:
Life's too short for women in burquas and devil worship.

[T.Smith]

Call me picky, but, my biggest complaint about this article is her excessive use of passive voice. Not a great writer, she.