"...and NO CAMELS!!!"
Posted on 03/18/2008 4:06:10 PM PDT by kingattax
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — "It's just like judging a beautiful girl," said Fowzan al-Madr, a camel breeder from the Kharj region southeast of Riyadh. "You look for big eyes, long lashes and a long neck — maybe 39 or 40 inches."
As he spoke, Madr was surveying the offerings at Saudi Arabia's largest camel market, on the outskirts of Riyadh.
The days are long past when camels were crucial to life, a chapter lost in increasing urbanization and technology. But there is still pleasure in raising them, sometimes for milk and meat, for racing and, yes, for their beauty.
Camel beauty pageants, in which camels are judged on their looks and dressage, are held all over Saudi Arabia. They have become so popular in recent years that a respected Saudi cleric recently issued a decree against them, saying that they encouraged pride.
The death in January of Mashoufan — a male camel who earned celebrity status after winning first prize in a number of pageants and was said to be worth more than $4.5 million — was widely reported, and his owner received condolences from around the country.
Camel breeding is a multimillion-dollar industry in Saudi Arabia, and late winter is an especially popular time for wealthy Saudi camel owners to arrange parties in the desert to spend time with their favorite camels.
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so many funny comments....so little time
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Camels... beautiful??? OMG, the jokes are going to write themselves...
“It’s just like judging a beautiful girl,” said Fowzan al-Madr, a camel breeder ... I’ll bet he is being a Muslim and all. They are a corrupt people even more corrupt religion.
"...and NO CAMELS!!!"
So much different from Dog-Shows and Dog breeding.
Next you know they will think camels are showing too much and put them in burkas!
You don’t want to be stuck with an ugly camel, do you?
You just can't make this stuff up....
ROTFLMAO
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I’m in love.
LOL..easy there Laz
I’m in love.
Not Guil....oh, uh...
I’d rather see these people attracted to camels, than to children.
is that “miss mecca” ?
This topic came up a year or so ago when someone said to me “it’s no different than dog shows here”. I said “yes it is because there is a difference between beauty and appearance. Appearance being a category in a contest is not the same as beauty. There are plenty of men out there that have a nice appearance who are not beautiful. Beauty is feminine.”
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