A Challenge to Saudi Culture

swarrier: #9

Thanks for your feedback. It appears that both music and mauseequi were derived from the Greek mousikE, which meant any art presided over by the Muses, especially music, from feminine of mousikos of the Muses, from Mousa Muse.

nasah:

Thanks for your appreciation.

All others, have fun.

Mohammad Gill

Swarrier #13 {``My sage advice. Quit while you are ahead. Stick with one or none at all.``}

Warrier Sahib,
Thank you for the sound advice. I don`t know if you have followed the HBO series called ``Big Love.`` It`s about a radical Mormon who practices polygamy in Utah and has three wives. Of course, he is the hero and his three wives keep him quite busy in addition to the obvious reason.

Anyway, before we became full-blown terrorists, we Muslims were ridiculed and admired by kaffirs for our polygamous inclinations. People dreamed about becoming Muslim, and Muslim men walked with their heads help up high - just the thought of being free to multiply was reason to be confident. Now thanks to UBL and ISNA, we are now terrorists and the damned LDS or Mormons are riding tall in the saddle. I just lament that the character played by Bill Paxton in ``Big Love`` could have been Abdul Wahab. :)

Re: # 10
Salim mian
When you get married your wife becomes your better half? With four of them you won`t even be worth a damned quarter?

My sage advice. Quit while you are ahead. Stick with one or none at all.

#11 bharath {``I understand #2 above VERY WELL, why #1? ``}

Bharath Bhai,
It is a safety issue. :)

re#10
{{{{There are a few things that Saudi Arabia has that make sense and might even be superior than most other countries:
1. Women are not allowed to drive automobiles.
2. Men can have four wives}}}}}

Salim Bhai,
LOL. Are we back to the titillating marblewallah dreams?

I understand #2 above VERY WELL, why #1?


Regards,

Mohammad Gill {``Why don’t we realize the fact that nothing in this world is permanent. Nothing stays the same. We need to change with the passage of time. ``}

Gill Sahib,
Good article and one that carries some hope that in the next 1500 years Saudi Arabia may actually allow ballroom dancing so that Hamidum2 and his lovely Hmong companion can dance cheek to cheek doing the Bossa Nova and the Tango on the rooftops of Jeddah.

I don`t think that the Saudis need to throw out the baby with the bathwater. There are a few things that Saudi Arabia has that make sense and might even be superior than most other countries:

1. Women are not allowed to drive automobiles.
2. Men can have four wives.

If I can think of any more areas of Saudi excellence, I will provide later.

Thanks,

Dr.Gill
The word music did not come from ``mauseequi``. It`s origin is in the Greek word Mousa (meant to represent the one of the Muses : the muse of music was Euterpe) from which came Mousike ``the art of the Muse``. This word was used to refer to any of the arts that the Muses presided over and then eventually was used to describe a pleasing arrangement of tones from which arose music , musique, musik etc.

I do not know if ``mauseequi`` may have come from the cross-cultural exchanges between the Greek and Arab civilisations.

Will we now have Black Sabbath performing in KSA?-)

Kulharee ji, you should stop consorting with bankers. What`s a rate hole? I feel like the money i pay the accountant and lawyer end up in a rate hole.

whats wrong with saudis? why are they not content like pakistanis and omanis to watch bollywood movies?

``the culture is intellectually frozen and fifteen hundred years old; it is archaic and its proponents refuse to modernize.``

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Freethinker:

1 IF Rasool-ul-llah was the perfect human being and
the society he governed and lived was supposed to be the pinnacle of civilization:

2 THEN Why should inheritors of that great culture abandon their forefather (pbuh) `s way of life and modernize?

``Prince Talal’s statement, quoted above, is a breath of fresh air in the oppressive, stifling and temporally static culture of Saudi Arabia. Apart from the external flash and dash of the petro-dollars, the culture is intellectually frozen and fifteen hundred years old; it is archaic and its proponents refuse to modernize.``(Gill)

an accurate assessment of the dismal condition of Saudi Islam -- now another big mistake that needs to be corrected by Mr. Talal is to allow non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia to build their places of worship the way the other countries allow Saudis to build Mosques in their countries. Besides, it will also help the boring country to cut the minaret monotony of the boring Saudi sky line.....

great piece Dr. Gill.

So saudis finally made a movie... halleluiah... bedouins have made ``progress``...To think that billion muslims are trying to ape this ``culture``... paying obeisance to these fools stuck in the middle ages...

No wonder muslim world is so f***ed up...

Such actions are like taking a bath with a drop of water. Nothing revolutionary about it. One must chop the roots not a leaf or two.

Too little too late, but a step in the right direction. The Wahabi establishment saw it coming the day Saddam was found in a rate hole. Hopefully other despots around the Islamic world are paying attention to this.

now seems to have slightly creak-opened a tightly sealed door on entertainment in Saudi Arabia


First dibs on the gay sex jokes..