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What is happening to Saudi society?
Arab News ^ | 12/26/01 | Raid Qusti

Posted on 12/25/2001 9:34:32 PM PST by JDGreen123

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Sounds like the Sauds are beginning to plant stories to justify their forthcoming crackdown on radicals. This is a good sign.
21 posted on 12/25/2001 10:23:24 PM PST by Southack
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To: JDGreen123
Saudi equivalent of Spring Break?
22 posted on 12/25/2001 10:33:17 PM PST by XLurk
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Are these youths a product of the schools, wherein they learn to memorize and chant from the Krazy Koran (but little else)? Elsewhere I have read that Saudi has 18 percent unemployment, and a big budget deficit, in spite of vast oil revenues.

Plain and simple: The idea that a religion can well govern a complex country, is proven to be dead wrong. Islam is the number one problem in the world, followed by communism. Both are makers of wars, and fail to meet basic human needs. Hence, the terrorism.

23 posted on 12/25/2001 10:37:21 PM PST by truth_seeker
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Nope, it has nothing to do with the Lord Jesus Christ, personal saviorship, etc. etc. His presence or absense (sic) just isn't part of the equation here.

WRONG.

His presence or absence is a part of EVERY equation.

24 posted on 12/25/2001 10:48:20 PM PST by RickyJ
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To: JDGreen123
Hard to keep them down on the farm once they've seen the bright lites of Riyad.
25 posted on 12/26/2001 12:59:48 AM PST by Joe Boucher
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Lying (spin, hypocracy, double-standards, newspeak, PC, law, bureacracy) make people mentally ill. When you lie, or are semi-ethical, or when you swallow your voice....

you poison your mind...

you disorient yourself, your justifications become self-delusional tides that disconnect you from reality and humanity.

We build civilizations that drive us mad.

26 posted on 12/26/2001 2:21:50 AM PST by mindprism.com
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So instead of killing women they are now violently harassing them I suppose this is an improvement.
27 posted on 12/26/2001 5:42:15 AM PST by weikel
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LOL
28 posted on 12/26/2001 5:43:09 AM PST by weikel
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Islam is the number one problem in the world, followed by communism. Both are makers of wars, and fail to meet basic human needs.

Correct, sir! Islam has only recently taken center stage and China is hard at work supporting their terrorism. China helps and Islam accepts though both are sworn enemies of the other. They may not have spoken that directly but each has stated that they must, and intend to, control the world in order for their ideologies to succeed. For each, all others are the enemy.

I suppose they are presently operating under the dictum that the enemy of my enemy is my friend but sooner or later, if either succeeds, the other must cease to exist. They are too narrowly focused, as all as all demogogic philosophies are, to understand that the U.S. is the friend of both if they would only accept it. Instead, each sees the U.S. as the leader of Western civilization and, as such, must be defeated. They collude to do this. Were they to succeed, either of them, the world would be in bondage, regardless, but there would be no peace until one destroyed the other. Then it would be the peace of the grave.

29 posted on 12/26/2001 7:41:40 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot
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