Bookworm on Jul 30 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Saudi Arabia
I’ve tried to be mellow about the Saudis. My all-American training in moral relativism has allowed me to find excuses for the misogyny that makes women 54th class citizens, and for the antisemitism that makes it illegal for Jews to travel to Saudi Arabia, and for the censorship that makes possession of a Bible punishable [...]
Bookworm on Jun 01 2008 | Filed under: Education, Saudi Arabia
You have to read this to believe it, but I’ll give you a hint: a school in New Hampshire had an evening celebrating Saudi culture that included marginalizing all the girls! After you read it, imagine the other possibilities, such as a Jewish party celebrating Cossack culture, or the late Roman Empire having a bash [...]
Bookworm on May 01 2008 | Filed under: Christians, Islam, Muslim violence, Religion, Saudi Arabia
Longtime readers know that one of my favorite book series is C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series. In the Narnia series, my favorite book has come to be The Last Battle — which is the Biblical end of the world, Narnia style. Within that book, my favorite scenes take place after the Apocalypse, when the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 25 2007 | Filed under: Anti-war, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Iraq, Islam, Jihad, Saudi Arabia
Dennis Prager likes to say (and I’m paraphrasing here) that liberals and conservatives have entirely incompatible world views. They understand facts in such a different way that there are few points of intersection. I had a reminder of that truism the other day when I watched Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center with a [...]
Bookworm on Nov 16 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Muslim violence, Saudi Arabia
I’d always rather blithely assumed that British law, as the original common law, was close to American law. This naive assumption got knocked out of me in law school when I did a senior thesis on the Freedom of Information Act in England, which, at least then (more than 20 years ago), could better [...]
Bookworm on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence, Saudi Arabia, Women
For those of you still wondering about what life will be like in the resurgent Islamic 7th century, here’s a bit more information, this time out of Saudi Arabia:
A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper [...]
Bookworm on Nov 01 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Saudi Arabia
I don’t know which protocol officer slipped up, but from the first second you hear the music, you’ll feel as I did when I viewed this British produced video about the Saudi king’s visit to Britain:
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Bookworm on Sep 17 2007 | Filed under: Feminism, Saudi Arabia, Women
Some Saudi women are bravely taking a stand and trying to overturn the prohibition against women drivers in that medieval theocracy:
For the first time ever, a group of women in the only country that bans female drivers have formed a committee to lobby for the right to get in the driver’s seat. They plan to [...]
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