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2014-09-04 Arabia

Saudi religious police in rare apology after Briton beating

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Posted by Fred 2014-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 reading between the lines here a bit - dude is "British" but married to a Saudi woman (so we get he is a muslim, coz islam does not permit an infidel to marry a muslimah - somewhat doable in some parts of the world but NOT KSA)

So is this inheritor of the millenia of British culture kinda getting a clue here - inquiring minds want to know - coz i recollect he ran to the British Embassy/Consulate for recourse

Posted by Bov Flimbers 2014-09-04 03:51|| 2014-09-04 03:51|| Front Page Top

#2 So is this inheritor of the millenia of British culture kinda getting a clue here - inquiring minds want to know - coz i recollect he ran to the British Embassy/Consulate for recourse

This is the previous article posted at Rantburg on the subject, from two days ago, Bov Flimbers. It doesn't say anything about the British embassy, so perhaps you read that somewhere else. As to whether the gentleman got a clue, as a long time expat resident before he went native, he ought not have had any delusions about the level of evil baked into the Saudi system. On the other hand, the fact of the formal apology suggests he married into a family with a good deal of influence, independent of the worldwide loss of face from the posting of the Video on YouTube.

Even I, little Midwestern housewife that I am, knew about Saudi Arabia long before I discovered Rantburg. My husband came back shaken from his first business trip there in 1987. "Now I know," he said, "what living under fascism must have been like." And so Mr. Wife was happy each time to be able to use me as an excuse to turn down his management when they offered him assignments in Saudi Arabia and later Yemen. "Can't possibly," he'd say each time. "Jewish wife. You understand." And so they had to.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-04 18:38|| 2014-09-04 18:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Bov ^^^^^^ Periwinkle

Posted by Shipman 2014-09-04 19:18|| 2014-09-04 19:18|| Front Page Top

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