Posted on 03/27/2014 7:23:32 PM PDT by george76
London (AFP) - A former wife of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah appealed to US President Barack Obama on Thursday for help in the case of four daughters she says are being held in a royal palace.
Alanoud AlFayez, 57, a Jordanian national who has lived in London since her divorce from the Saudi monarch in 2003, said her children needed to be "saved".
"Since 13 years, my daughters Sahar, Maha, Hala and Jawaher are being held captive," AlFayez told AFP. "They need to be saved and released immediately."
She added: "Mr Obama should take this opportunity to address these grave violations committed against my daughters."
AlFayez, who married the Saudi king when she was only 15, said her daughters had recently had their twice-monthly trips to buy food, water and medicine for themselves and their pets stopped.
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Dozens members of the US Congress have urged Obama to bring up the prickly subject of rights in Saudi Arabia, including efforts by women activists to challenge the country's ban on female drivers, despite recent tensions over Washington's .. reluctance to engage more forcefully in Syria.
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” If he’s a bad boy, for any reason, the population will NOT assassinate him—his OWN BROTHERS and other MALE RELATIVES will.”
An interesting form of ‘checks and balances.’
“The KING, by the way, personally owns all the petroleum and natural gas in the KSA. That keeps all the wealthy and prominent families from all FIGHTING over it. Good solution to the problem. “
Good way to prevent chaos. It also prevents foreigners from coming in and buying any form of control over the national economy.
Thing is, that these women have some idea that they are so special, SO unique, SO smart, that they don’t have to worry about silly things like Saudi culture and that they are the Chosen One who will change all this or at least be granted rights denied to other women.
Just like women who marry abusive men or criminals or men who can’t be faithful.
Ladies, it’s hard enough to get him to lift a finger for our guys. You’re completely boned.
Call me crazy but I suspect some immigration deals will be made and more CAIR/other folks will end up with new CZAR positions in his regime cabinet.
Was that a MAJOR, HUGE, HUMILIATING faux pas or not? WHAT an idiot. Shows that he IGNORED the protocol....
NO one "bows" to the King...well, except maybe the wife who wants a new house without her sister wives knowing about it. :o)
SOMEONE taught them that balderdash. Maybe "nanny" did since both parents probably worked. Or maybe there was no "daddy" in the house because mommy did her own "store-bought" insemination because "daddy" was an unnecessary adjunct to her life.
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Just like women who marry abusive men or criminals or men who can’t be faithful.
So true. I have a quasi-friend whose father was an alcoholic...and she didn't MARRY one but shacked up with him for 40 years WHILE he remained married to the Chinese woman who snagged him in Taiwan when he went there with the military DECADES ago.
I hadn't thought of it in those terms but you are absolutely correct.
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Good way to prevent chaos. It also prevents foreigners from coming in and buying any form of control over the national economy.
The original owners of the petroleum and natural gas were, of course, the Saudis. But they SOLD all their rights to the "BIG FOUR" oil companies: Exxon, Chevron, Mobile and Shell (which was Dutch) in the mid -1920's. I think that's right. It's been a long time.
In 1982 the King BOUGHT back those rights. Whew. He PROBABLY took the money out of his "chump change."
He started giving away oodles of money in the form of charity. He gave to BOTH Muslim and Christian countries. He never did, to my knowledge, give anything to Hindu countries...only to people "of the Book." (Bible, Koran)
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It has always been hard for me to wrap my mind around: the King made a billion dollars every other day....1982.
Didn't they watch "Not Without My Daughter"?
“An interesting form of ‘checks and balances.’”
“I hadn’t thought of it in those terms but you are absolutely correct. “
Truth be told, I sincerely think that this is the best way for a monarchy to be run, with the relations keeping the Sovereign in check and the clan in general keeping things under control. The royals in the Arab nations know that if their king messes up big, it means that a firing squad will take the rest of them with the naughty king in a revolution.
“In 1982 the King BOUGHT back those rights. Whew.”
Smart thing to do; he has likely learned about the damage that foreign business interests do when they have a controlling stake in the country. Being seen as a toady to foreign interests is a sure way to get overthrown.
“He PROBABLY took the money out of his “chump change.””
There’s something funny about the way you said that.
“It has always been hard for me to wrap my mind around: the King made a billion dollars every other day....1982.”
What a way to live.
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