Archive for the 'Saudi Arabia' Category
Danny Lemieux on Apr 05 2011 | Filed under: Economics, Energy, Europe, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jihad, Saudi Arabia, Self-reliance
Israel as the next Saudia Arabia? According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, Israel’s unusually large and high-quality shale oil reserves may yield as much oil as all of Saudi Arabia’s proven oil reserves. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576242420737584278.html These discoveries are in addition to of Israel’s recently diclosed gas reserves, also anticipated to be [...]
Bookworm on Mar 15 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia
Poor Cassandra was cursed by the Gods with the gift of making accurate prophecies that no one would believe. The disasters she foresaw always came true, but she was helpless to stop people (and nations) from racing towards their doom. The endings were always so terrible — and Cassandra was herself swept up in them [...]
Bookworm on Dec 14 2010 | Filed under: Arabs, Saudi Arabia
Many, myself included, found it heartening that the Wikileaks cables showed that Saudi Arabia, and other Arab countries, were talking tough to American diplomats when it came to Iran. That proved, we said, that, no matter what the leaders said on the streets, behind the scenes they were sensibly aware of their common cause with [...]
Bookworm on Jun 27 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia
In 1989, when it became clear that the former Soviet Union could no longer stop the spread of Democracy in the Eastern Bloc countries, many of us naively assumed that a new dawn of peace and harmony was about to arrive. We envisioned lions and lambs frolicking together, all bedecked in dewy flowers. What actually [...]
Bookworm on Jun 12 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia
On May 7, 2009, when Obama’s anti-Israel animus was first making itself very apparent, I wrote about Saudi cooperation with Israel: It will be interesting to see if Israel can withstand Obama’s pressure. I’m reasonably optimistic that, with Netanyahu at the helm, Israel understands what Obama is doing and understands what will happen if he [...]
Bookworm on Oct 24 2009 | Filed under: Islam, Muslim violence, Saudi Arabia
Didn’t Obama bow to the king? A Saudi court on Saturday convicted a female journalist for her involvement in a TV show, in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex, and sentenced her to 60 lashes. Rozanna al-Yami is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment. The [...]
Bookworm on Jul 05 2009 | Filed under: Israel, Saudi Arabia
I’ve predicted in this blog that, if America continues to coddle Iran, Saudi Arabia will give Israel access to its air space, although it may well lie about that fact later. Iran’s bluster was fine with the Arab Muslim nations as long as they thought the U.S. would ultimately slap down any Iranian pretensions to [...]
Bookworm on May 07 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia
Those of us who were paying attention knew that Obama was lying during the campaign season when he claimed that he was Israel’s best friend. The words sounded pretty, but we knew about (a) his nonexistent track record supporting Israel in the Senate and (b) his affiliations with people (Wright, Powers, etc.) who demonize Israel [...]
Bookworm on Apr 08 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Saudi Arabia
Charles Johnson, at Little Green Footballs, has been urging less heat on the Obama bow matter because, as he and Newt both point out, Bush bowed too. I agree with Johnson that hysteria on the subject is badly placed — although I think hysteria on any subject is badly placed. Still, I do think the [...]
Bookworm on Nov 25 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Saudi Arabia, United Nations
The head of the UN General Assembly just called Israel an “apartheid” state. In other words, Israel is emblematic of evil in the world. I’ve finally realized what the problem is: Israel has a mixed population. Think about it: Iraq expelled her Jews and hounded her Christians into obscurity. Saudi Arabia makes it illegal to [...]
Bookworm on Nov 11 2008 | Filed under: Saudi Arabia
If I had to give one single reason for drilling the hell out of whatever energy resources America has to offer, it would be to de-fund the medieval sharia system that thrives in Saudi Arabia. Right now, Egypt is in an uproar because a 53-year old Egyptian physician convicted of malpractice against one of the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 06 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Saudi Arabia
Watch Pat Condell quick before they try to ban him again: Also, if you’re British, sign the petition. And if you’re British and don’t have enough info to sign the petition, Condell provides these helpful links: YouTube censors comedian shock http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknew… Saudi cleric favours one-eye veil http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/midd… Islamic finance in London http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/… http://www.arabnews.com/?page=6&s… http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfr… Saudi [...]
Bookworm on Oct 06 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Feminism, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Sex, Women
American feminists, who have done quite a number on Palin, are remarkably silent about the mind-boggling restrictions placed upon, and indignities visited upon, their sisters in Saudi Arabia: A new prohibition may be added to the long list of those placed on women in Saudi Arabia: A new sentence according to Islamic law (fatwa) determines [...]
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 saved are [...]
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 liberal friend. [...]
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 be [...]
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 [...]
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:
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 [...]
