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| Saudi clerics pray for rain |
| 2004-04-02 |
| Saudi clerics across the kingdom led worshippers in prayers for rain on Thursday, blaming a minor drought on a catalogue of sins, including the increasing openness of women who may unveil or mingle with men. Addressing hundreds of worshippers in Mecca, Grand Mosque cleric Abdel Rahman bin Abdel Aziz al-Sudeis said Muslims should purify their hearts of âenvy, jealousy, hatred, breaking off (relations), quarrels and enmity for trivial reasonsâ, and ask for Godâs forgiveness to end the drought. âThere is no sin without misfortune, and there is no lifting of punishments without repentance; the sins are dangerous because whenever they exist, destruction follows,â al-Sudeis said. He singled out women, saying their sins included âbedecking, unveiling, mingling (with men), being indifferent with hijab (veil)â. Khaled al-Maeena, editor of the English daily Arab News, worried that some listeners could wrongly interpret al-Sudeisâ comments. âIt is not a healthy sign, as we want women to play their role and to be active in the society,â he said. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #17 M4D---My dog found the dead chicken in the snowbank down the road. Had her for din-din. Now it is snowing more. Everything and everybody is fine. Thanks for your help. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-04-02 10:18:49 PM |
| #16 i hope your chicken not outside in the cold. LMAO! And stay away from blenders... |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-04-02 9:35:48 PM |
| #15 M4D watch list is cut ni half. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-02 8:20:31 PM |
| #14 Israel had good rains this winter. Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee), the country's largest freshwater lake and primary water reservoir, nears capacity for the first time in a decade. Link |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-04-02 7:30:11 PM |
| #13 mojo - Did you intentionally leave out "with"? Just wondering... ;-) |
| Posted by: .com 2004-04-02 7:13:06 PM |
| #12 So these schmucks still don't understand the mechanics of rainfall, what else is new? They sure can breed goats, though... |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-04-02 7:06:57 PM |
| #11 Last week it was in the mid-high 90', Today cold,rain,sleet all around misrable day. Good news Roosevelt Lake at 40%. 2 years ago the lake was at 04%. Inshallah |
| Posted by: Raptor 2004-04-02 5:07:22 PM |
| #10 Mucky's got a valid point there, AP. Been known to snow way up there. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-04-02 4:36:11 PM |
| #9 paul i think maybe cuz you live in alaska? i hope your chicken not outside in the cold. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-04-02 4:20:25 PM |
| #8 It's been in the low to mid 70's here for the past week, beautiful spring weather. Today, the wind's howling and it's supposed to snow by this evening. If it was yesterday, I'd declare the weather report an April Fool's joke. I think the Saudis should go back and carefully re-read the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament, and try to square their behavior with how they treat the Jews. They don't seem to get it... One of the side effects of the 9/11 and 3/11 bombings has been more people hitting their knees every evening. While I'm not one of those Bible-thumping Southern Baptist fire-and-brimstone preachers I grew up hearing as a kid, I do have a strong belief in God, and I do know you DON'T mock Him. Islam's rejection of His Commandments do that. I think He's as tired of their "Holier than Thou" attitude as the rest of us, and is doing His part to throw sand in their faces, too. If God's pissed at them, all the "prayer" and "supplication" in the world isn't going to do thim any good, until they change how they treat His chosen people, the Jews. We'll see when that happens... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-04-02 1:19:05 PM |
| #7 AP - I think it means 'eat more beef'... |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-04-02 12:25:22 PM |
| #6 In deference to Saudi Arabia's precip problems, I asked my wife to put on a veil. She refused. I came home from work and our oldest chicken was dead. I gave it a back-to-nature burial, apologized to my wife, and lo and behold this morning--- it started snowing here. What does it all mean? Mucky, work with me on this..... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-04-02 11:33:49 AM |
| #5 I remember reading about ancient civilizations, you know 5k-10k BC making sacrifices to "gods" for rain, fertility etc. Anybody see a resembelance here? Maybe they can do some human sacrifices. As a matter a fact I think, to get some rain, they should have a big mass suicide. That should appease the "god" of mohammed the pedophile. |
| Posted by: AllahHateMe 2004-04-02 9:20:08 AM |
| #4 "...including the increasing openness of women...." "Addressing hundreds of worshippers "Muslims should purify their hearts of âenvy, jealousy, hatred, breaking off (relations).." "He singled out women" "....being indifferent with hijab (veil)..â âIt is not a healthy sign, as we want women to play their role |
| Posted by: Bill Nelson 2004-04-02 8:45:18 AM |
| #3 I could pray to see more pictures like the one with Lil Kim in veil and nothing else that were in One World last year. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-04-02 8:40:14 AM |
| #2 My wife hasn't worn a veil since 1987, and we had record rainfall here last year. Maybe it's because I openly support Bush. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-04-02 8:29:26 AM |
| #1 Mmmm! The online weather sites were a few hours ago forecasting rain in Jeddah on Wednesday. They are now forecasting just cloud. I see an attempt to impress the ignorant coming unglued. HeHe! |
| Posted by: phil_b 2004-04-02 6:58:37 AM |