A Challenge to Saudi Culture

freethinker: You should read this blog. It`s by a saudi dude sick of the religious nutcases. He`s hilarious. Trust me. You`ll love it.

http://muttawa.blogspot.com/2006/04/lets-go-to-movies.html

Mmm, extreme ignorance (like when did he last go to the cinema to check out the delinquents?) combined with extreme bigotry, a potent combination giving a sharp tang, rather like an ageing Muscadet. But wait, how does it taste when it hits the back of the throat?....

Allowing women to drive is impossible, because ``there are already too many jams``

Oh, bliss! Wasn`t that worth it? That really hits the spot as it eddies around the soft palate. Pure vintage champagne, Moet et Chandon I`m sure, probably from that south-east-facing slope, the one where Madame Defarge`s tom-cat goes to pee.

But as we`re in Bahrain, let`s ask them what they think of Saudi women driving, because of course Saudi women can drive once they are there. Thanks to my friend Mahmood from Bahrain, we learn that...

“Despite the presence of a large number of Saudi women drivers in Bahrain, not a single case of traffic violation has been registered against them,” Al-Riyadh Arabic daily quoted Sameem as saying.
Bahrain’s traffic department has issued driving licenses to 1,107 Saudi women, Sameem confirmed. He said Saudi women have displayed exceptional control and concentration while driving.``

Whereas for the Saudi men....

However, he pointed out that Saudi men had caused 38 accidents, two of them fatal, in the last five months.

So if you were to allow only one sex to drive, which would it be? Mansur` Askar`s brain cells are struggling a bit with that one, I think the synapses are waving at each other but have not met up yet.

arstoo:

Did you read the article? It`s about the Muslim culture. Read the following extract from the article and tell me if it was appropriate for me to mention the Hindu singers.

``Life in the non-Saudi Muslim world goes on as usual without paying much attention whether music is ‘halal’ or ‘haram.’ Umm-e-Kalthum had captured the hearts of the Arab listeners with her enchanting music and in our sub continental sphere, there were Noor Jehan, Muhammad Rafi, Talaat Mehmood, and others. This hypocrisy has become the hallmark of the Muslim world. In due time, if music ever became a contentious issue, it would be Islamized one way or the other``

Why are you so preoccupied with Muslims versus Hindus engagements? The article is about Saudi Arab and hence by extension Muslim culture. Read the article before you start writing your meaningless posts.

Mohammad Gill

[Noor Jehan, Muhammad Rafi, Talaat Mehmood, and others]

Dear Freethinker

Subconciously you are parochial at the best and a islamic funadmentalist at the worst. You could not come up with a single hindu singer`s name. You are a disgrace. For your information KL Sehgal, Kishore, Lata, Asha, Suman Kalyanpur, MS Subalaxmi etc. But any of you Islamic intlectuals like you, fv etc can`t come out of your ghetto superiority complex.

I feel better now, I have taken it off my chest.

One of the best song of Suman Kalyanpur is

Uhin Dil ne chaha tha rona roolana
Teri yaad to ban gayee ek bahaana

Gam-e-dil bhi hai aur gam-e-zindagi bhi
na iska thikaana na uska thikaana

swarrier #23, #24, #25,
Read all three of your posts. I admire a person with consistent and determined viewpoint.

my dear homogenized, monogamized friend, do the best you can, and when it all fails, as the hindus say, apna hath-jagganath...

Re: 23 , 24, 25

Sorry about the clutter. Damned Firefox postdata bug. Anyway thought I`d make it a nice even number

Re: # 20
Bharath

[according to evolutionary theory.......... m.wallahs ``naturally`` seek many partners.........the other side seeks safety and security....... ]

and

many partners.

Some years ago a study was done on pair-bonded (monogamous) birds. The male birds were captured and castrated and returned to their territories and mates. Their mates still managed to reproduce though their mates were incapable of fertilisation . So much for pair bonding.-)

Right now all I seek is an Arsenal victory over Barcelona in the Champions League Final. 3 generations of Warriers have been praying for that.

Re: # 20
Bharath

[according to evolutionary theory.......... m.wallahs ``naturally`` seek many partners.........the other side seeks safety and security....... ]

and

many partners.

Some years ago a study was done on pair-bonded (monogamous) birds. The male birds were captured and castrated and returned to their territories and mates. Their mates still managed to reproduce though their mates were incapable of fertilisation . So much for pair bonding.-)

Right now all I seek is an Arsenal victory over Barcelona in the Champions League Final. 3 generations of Warriers have been praying for that.

Re: # 20
Bharath

[according to evolutionary theory.......... m.wallahs ``naturally`` seek many partners.........the other side seeks safety and security....... ]

and

many partners.

Some years ago a study was done on pair-bonded (monogamous) birds. The male birds were captured and castrated and returned to their territories and mates. Their mates still managed to reproduce though their mates were incapable of fertilisation . So much for pair bonding.-)

Right now all I seek is an Arsenal victory over Barcelona in the Champions League Final. 3 generations of Warriers have been praying for that.

#20, Bharath Bhai,
What upsets me is that UBL gets the four here and the 72 later. :(
While we modern types become homogenized, harmonized, modernized, montheized, and monogamized. I guess the only thing left is sod.....

#19, Swarrier {``So you could say I have two wives.-)``}

As they say in Saudi Arabia - ``Ma`shallah``

Re: # 14
{{{Anyway, before we became full-blown terrorists, we Muslims were ridiculed and admired by kaffirs for our polygamous inclinations. People dreamed about becoming Muslim,}}}}}}


Salim Bhai,
That`s my biography in a ``nut shell``..............

Swarrier,
i don`t understand u...all things said and dun one attractive feature of ``submission`` is its recognition of ``natural`` biological instincts of m.wallahs......

according to evolutionary theory.......... m.wallahs ``naturally`` seek many partners.........the other side seeks safety and security.......

Re: # 18

Nope. No Jee TV, No Sony at home either. And I married a Gemini. So you could say I have two wives.-)

swarrier #17, {`` My better three quarters decides what I see.``}

Warrier Sahib,
I bet that you HAVE TO watch Jee TV, maybe even Sony and that you know how to keep track of multiple Saas Bahu relationships often involving the same actors. :)

See what the montheists have done to our life? :) With polygamy, two of them could keep each other company on Z TV, while you enjoyed HBO and the Playboy Channel with the other two.

Re: # 14
Salim mian
No I am not allowed to see HBO. My better three quarters decides what I see.

See what I have been reduced to .-)

The inferior quarter. -)

vie-schomovie...the most entertaining thing to come out of saudi arabia, besides fodder for camel sex jokes, is the mutawwa blog..

http://muttawa.blogspot.com/

MOL Alert(Muslim Offense Level)