I always have this favorite story from my early days in the Air Force. I was in technical training at Sheppard AFB, in Texas, and in the class ahead of me there were 2 guys from the Royal Bahraini Air Force, one of them a member of the royal family. They took the time to tell everyone not to grab their left hands (for the familiar reasons,) and not to have pork around them, etc.
Imagine our surprise the first Friday we were there, to go to the Officers' Club and find Ali and Salah already there, cigarettes in one hand, beer on the other, and their arms around these gorgeous local señoritas. One of us got brave and asked Ali how come they were drinking, smoking and cavorting on a Friday if they were Muslim.
Ali replied: "Oh, that applies only in Bahrain. Allah is in Bahrain, not here, so we can do whatever we like."
On that day, what little respect I had left for Islam was gone.
Yep. Like the 9/11 bombers going to a strip club the night before.
If their god is not omnipresent, he doesn't add up to the True God!! Not that that is new news. ;)
Pukes.
TLR
and on a Friday no less. ;^)
Funny you mention that. I spent a little time in Bahrain (I'm navy) and we were told about respect for traditional Islamic culture and all that garbage. Female sailors were told to wear modest clothing and whatnot. I turn on TV in my hotel room and there is a Bahrainian music/dance show with local teenage girls dressed like Britney Spears. The hotel bars will filled with drunken Saudis cavorting with Russian prostitutes (these would be strikingly beautiful and very inexpensive Russian prostitutes).
Turns out the Saudis drive across the bridge to Bahrain and party because (and I swear this is what I was told) "Allah cannot see us in Bahrain." So their omnipotent little god is blind to sin when Saudis drive to Bahrain!