[Wash Times] Welcome to Starbucks in Saudi Arabia. With your tall nonfat latte you will also get an extra special gift: a giant, steaming pile of gender apartheid.
U.N. Watch refers to Saudi Arabia as having "arguably the worst record in the world when it comes to religious freedom and women's rights," so it came as no surprise last week when women were barred from entering a Starbucks of all places.
A person attempting to be a Starbucks customer was waylaid by the 6th century. Thinking she would get her java at the Riyadh Starbucks, instead she received some tall extra-fat Sharia and encountered a sign which she promptly tweeted. Outside the coffee shop was a notice that read in English and Arabic, "Please no entry for ladies only send your driver to order thank you."
Social media exploded when "ManarM" tweeted, "#Starbucks store in Riyadh refused 2 serve me just because I'm a WOMAN & asked me 2 send a man instead."
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[Question] You’re a war hero, author, public speaker, charity supporter and have been awarded the CBE. Which is more meaningful, the fame, money or plaudits?
[Answer]Respect. Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people. I like to live life in an understated way because that’s who I am – an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.
A hero.
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[Breitbartg] Pollster Pat Caddell, also a former adviser to President Jimmy Carter, asserted that the Hillary Clinton email scandal is "worse than Watergate."
Long the pinnacle of modern American political scandal, Nixon resigned after he was connected to the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
"This is the greatest scandal in the history of the United States," Caddell said. "They all ought to be indicted. This is worse than Watergate."
Clinton, he explained, would soon be exposed for using her connections in the State Department to enrich her family, her foundation, and her supporters.
"They were selling out the national interests of the United States directly to adversaries and others for money," he said. "There is just nothing that satisfies them. They are the greediest white trash I have ever seen."
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Nah, he's got a job: Caddell is a regular guest on the Fox News Channel, and he is listed as an official 'Fox News Contributor'. This has earned him the label of a "Fox News Democrat" by critics such as liberal opinion magazine Salon.com.[1] He has also frequently appeared on the conservative website Ricochet.com discussing politics.
Mebbe he gotta brain when he turned 60.
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That is kind of harsh against White Trash isn't it?
Didn't Slick Willie give China missile tech in exchange for donations? So why is anyone suprised?
[DAWN] IT is a strange situation: an interior minister who is not exactly known for his hostility towards the conservative segments of society is still struggling to convince, and being openly contradicted by, the representatives of the country's madressah networks. Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan has once again suggested that the federal government is on the verge of reaching an agreement with the five major madressah networks in the country to document and regulate religious schools, a suggestion that the networks' leaders have already seemingly rejected. It is perhaps worth revisiting first principles here: in a country where no other educational system is outside the purview of state regulation, why should the madressah networks be a class apart? There is no obvious answer to that question, notwithstanding the claim by madressah representatives that the matter ought to fall in the provincial purview, as opposed to the federal.
The appeal to the provincial domain is an obvious attempt to avoid regulation all together -- the calculation being that what cannot be enforced at the federal level is unlikely to be pushed through at varied provincial levels. But the ploys should not allowed to be endless. A decade ago, the Musharraf regime also attempted to regulate madressahs, but was quickly thwarted by intense political opposition -- and a dictator's fear of being on the wrong side of religious lobbies that helped originally solidify his power. A decade later, after the worst atrocity in the country's history -- the APS Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. attack -- the country's political and military leadership drew up a National Action Plan that specifically required that madressahs be "regularised and reformed". Yet, the latest efforts too were resisted by madressah representatives, who latched on inter-ministerial rivalries and have tried to play the religious affairs ministry against the interior ministry, a ruse meant to delay registration and oversight.
Clearly, not all madressahs are hotbeds of extremism or sponsors of terror. But just as clearly some madressahs and their patrons are agents of extremism and sponsors of terror. It is, therefore, not only absurd to claim that madressahs ought to continue to avoid regulation, but that somehow the simple act of enumeration and basic oversight will undermine the rights and freedoms of religious lobbies in the country. What is that the madressah networks are truly afraid of? It is simply inconceivable that regularisation and reform will prevent fundamental religious education from being imparted in the country. But if regularisation and reform can lead to successes on the counter-extremism front and breakthroughs in counterterrorism, is there really any moral or legal justification for resisting change? Ultimately, it will come down to resolve by the government. Like the Musharraf regime, the last PPP government too tried to document and regulate the madressah networks, but then backed down in the name of political expediency. The present PML-N government has at least one advantage over previous administrations: the consensus NAP. Chaudhry Nisar has a penchant for thundering against sundry opponents; surely he can prevail against recalcitrant madressah networks.
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[Ynet] Analysis: The past few days have seen the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia express its desire to send ground forces into Syria at the head of a coalition including Turkey and the UAE. But why now? Geopolitical interests, religion, and the turning tide of the war in favor of the Assad regime may hold some of the answers.
A convoy of over a hundred Humvees was recently captured on video near the Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n town of Qurayat, about 19 miles away from the al-Haditha border crossing with the Kingdom of Jordan. Al-Haditha, which is the Saudi Kingdom's largest land border crossing, was previously used as the primary crossing point for goods transiting through Saudi Arabia to the rest of the Gulf countries from the north, as well as people making the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, coming from as far away as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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The Saudi ground forces are just another bunch of arabs fighting other bunches of arabs. It's the clash of their and Turkey's airforce with Russia's which will make this interesting.
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