Posted on 04/02/2009 12:48:50 PM PDT by pissant
The new Saudi king has ordered citizens not to kiss his hand, saying the traditional gesture of respect is degrading and violates Islam.
"Kissing hands is alien to our values and morals, and is not accepted by free and noble souls," Abdullah told a delegation from Baha, in southwest Saudi Arabia, which came to the royal palace to offer congratulations on his accession. "It also leads to bowing, which is a violation of God's law. The faithful bow to no one but God."
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I guess Adbullah hasn't looked around at his country lately.
The ban was against CITIZENS (i.e. fellow MUSLIMS) from doing so. However, it is obligatory for dhimmis (subservient non-Muslims) to adopt a subservient manner toward their Muslim overlords.
But I do believe he is a Muslim.
Wonder if they've made any progress on getting a dog? He told Leno the dog would be "in place" when they get back from Europe.
Gotta save those pictures.
Obama is such a maroon. What a gull a bull!
Demonstrating his ignorance. I watched the video. It struck me as patronizing. Right up there with the tourist who believes using chopsticks makes him Chinese.
“not accepted by free and noble souls,”
that does tend to rule out certain kenyan race pimp imposters
“Overseas European trip for a 500-person contingent: Hundreds of thousands of dollars”
probably more like MILLIONS
the military had to divert airlift from Afghanistan support and hire Russian made planes to deliver supplies to keep our TROOPS IN COMBAT armed and supplied
so the obamas could take 500 strap hangers on an Easter Break to London
Wow! I didn't know that.
And yet again, one wonders what the MSM would have said if Bush did something like that.
Millions...in these economic times. Unbelievable.
where's the video?
i thought maybe he dropped one, and then bowed over to pick it up. :)
thanks to Drudge
“Military strained by Obama Trip”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/02/inside-the-ring-89874599/
un-be-frickin-lievable gall and arrogance
we have kids risking their livws in war, yet obama and pelosi continue to use OUR Air Force like a personal airline and valet service
go to the right side of the page and you will see obama kisses hand headline
on the 2nd page near the end there are multiple links to videos or you can go to you tube as well.
I've been going back and forth as to whether the prez is really this stupid, or is it all orchestration. I'm really thinking they are a bunch of lamebrains. They seem to have no CLUE how to run a government, let alone interact with other governments, or they have some college flunk teaching them etiquette. I just DON'T understand.
If they knew the proper etiquette when President Bush was in office, and wanted to make him look ignorant....they failed because the international govts knew the TRUTH. And for that, we can be very very grateful.
On the other hand, if the other govts see this as a sign of weakness of our country, I fear we are in trouble.
Bush was, of course. Every society has its acceptable level of “personal space” and contact: some more than ours, some less. Bush was treating the king as the king would treat a close colleague, which was appropriate. Obama treated the king as a superior, and in the process disgraced the Office of the President.
The idiot seriously doesn’t realize he is NOT the Office of the President. Like all others before, he is filling the Office of the President for a limited time at the pleasure of the people. The people own that office. He is not allowed to do as he pleases.
The cool thing about Bush is that where he’s from he’s used to a lot of personal space, yet he looked very comfortable with the king, fulfilling the Head of State function of the Office very well.
LOL. :)
Great job, pissant, happilymarriedmom
Related:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220768/posts?q=1&;page=56#56
ugggh, i haven’t been there in years. will have to take a sanitize my brain after that. It’s sort of like diving in a dumpster, literally.
he really is flat out ignorant of proper protocol isn’t he? Unbelievable.
did he? is there video of that?
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