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2006-05-02 Arabia

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-05-02 02:24|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 heh Sea good un..can't wait..thx.

Posted by RD 2006-05-02 03:59|| 2006-05-02 03:59|| Front Page Top

#2 from the article (after he was shot by Al Q),

"...And then the strangest thing happened. Nobody helped me. In Muslim society, charity and hospitality are legendary. I have known Egyptians cross four lanes of rush-hour traffic to help with a flat tyre; an Omani minister once gave me his prized walking cane inscribed with his title in silver; Indonesians have slaughtered their sole goat to share with me. And yet here I was, lying in the road, obviously very badly injured, and yet nobody came to help.

That is one of the things I remember most: the terrible feeling of loneliness, the sense that I was completely on my own, that I could not rely on anyone to help me. I was obviously an object of interest: there was plenty of discussion and pointing at the empty cartridge cases that lay all around me. But something to staunch the blood? A pillow? A glass of water? Even a few words of comfort? Forget it.

The only charitable explanation I can think of is that perhaps nobody dared come near me lest they get dragged off to the police station as a witness."

or they were afraid of Al Q.

Posted by mhw 2006-05-02 09:24|| 2006-05-02 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 In Muslim society, charity and hospitality are legendary.

But not in Saudi Arabia, not in wahabi societies. Let's remember the text published in Arab News a couple weeks ago (and linked in Rantburg) about the way Saudis treat foreigners and cats. The author, a Saudi, wondered why there was so much hate ion Saudi society.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-05-02 10:20|| 2006-05-02 10:20|| Front Page Top

#4 it's because they are inferior to both foreigners and cats

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-02 10:25|| 2006-05-02 10:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Frank G, and pigs, don't forget pigs.

Posted by RWV 2006-05-02 11:57|| 2006-05-02 11:57|| Front Page Top

#6 And Dogs.

Posted by closedanger">closedanger 2006-05-02 13:19|| 2006-05-02 13:19|| Front Page Top

#7 D*mn Arabs, can't do anything right.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-05-02 14:02|| 2006-05-02 14:02|| Front Page Top

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