The Global Embarrassment that is Saudi Arabia

Life in Saudi Arabia, the fascist dictatorship the US protects with the blood of their youth while pretending to promote democracy and freedom in the Middle East. The Wahabist oppressions as recounted by a female US national who went to a Starbucks with a male colleague so they could continue to work during a power outage.

She settled into a booth with a male colleague and opened her laptop. Moments later, she was arrested.

“Some men came up to us with very long beards and white dresses. They asked, ‘Why are you here together?’ I explained about the power being out in our office. They got very angry and told me what I was doing was a great sin,” Yara recalled.

The men were from Saudi Arabia’s Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a 10,000-strong police force charged with enforcing dress codes, sex segregation and the observance of prayer times.

Yara said they grabbed her mobile phone and pushed her into a taxi bound for Riyadh’s main prison. There she was interrogated, strip-searched and forced to sign and fingerprint confessions of guilt.

Later, she was made to stand before a judge who condemned her behavior, telling her she would “burn in hell.”

She said she spent hours in a filthy prison cell with dozens of other women who had been arrested by the religious police, before her husband used his political connections to secure her release.

Hate Hillary? Why?

I can’t believe how many people hate - I mean viscerally hate - Hillary Clinton. I don’t get it - or maybe I get it too well. I have set up a blog Hillary Hatred in order to get to the bottom of this. Are Americans just a bunch of haters? She’s a super successful woman who has tried to bring universal health care to the last civilized country without it. She has worked for children’s causes for 35 years. I mean, c’mon. Save your hatred for Osama bin Laden or someone worthy. You don’t have to vote for her, but why hate her anyway?

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