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Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed
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To: Les H who wrote (172953)6/15/2002 10:30:16 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
Saudi Arabia - a terrorist Nation ?

upi.com

Although women in Saudi Arabia make up half the population, they are not allowed to vote.
Nor are they allowed to drive cars. They are excluded from certain professions and they
are required to be shrouded in long, black abayas whenever they appear in public. Saudi
women cannot apply for identity cards, receive medical treatment or leave the country
without consent from their closest male relative. In many areas of the country, women
cannot even leave their homes without being escorted by a male relative. Penalties for
failing to acquiesce to the rules and regulations imposed by the mutawa can result in
severe punishment that could include imprisonment, and even death by stoning or
beheading....................................................

The most spectacular case
was just over 10 years ago, during the Persian Gulf War, when President George Bush --
the father of the current president -- was told by the Saudis he could not say grace before a
Thanksgiving meal he was to have with the American troops preparing for the war with
Iraq. A war that was to protect Saudi Arabia from Iraq. So the president went to
international waters and had a Thanksgiving meal aboard a ship of the U.S. fleet.
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