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Bull shit!!!!

Dining out in Saudi Arabia a police matter

 

Every day I lose a drop of hope.. Not much is left..

 

الأمن السعودي يحبط شغبا يستهدف مسرحية "وسطي بلا وسطية"

Beyond the Veil

Very well said..

 

When.. when… Every day I wonder, when?

Rape case calls Saudi legal system into question

Please Read This Now

“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

-- Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of US (1872 - 1933)

 

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth ... persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often, we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
-- John F. Kennedy

Saddam sentenced to hang

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang by a U.S.-sponsored Iraqi court which found him guilty on Sunday of crimes against humanity.

The ousted president, visibly shaken, shouted out "Allahu Akbar!" (God is Greatest) and "Long live the nation!".

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Here’s an interesting question/prediction I just saw on TV. Will the sentence be carried out or will it be postponed indefinitely? If it is carried out, will he be viewed by Arabs as a martyr? I’m afraid he will be.

 

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Swahili web game to tackle AIDS

 

ExxonMobil just reported its quarterly earnings and guess how much they made--$10 billion (yes, with a “B”). Why are they making so much money? Are they being more productive? Not really. They’re making more money thanks to the unethical (and should be illegal) behavior of OPEC. Now I’m sure many of your will think I’m an asshole for saying that, but it’s true. Saudi Arabia and OPEC are engaging in an activity that is illegal in most countries in the world; they are manipulating the market by using their dominance. Cartels are illegal almost everywhere in the world for a really good reason; they harm the consumer and produce above-fair profits for producers. Let me explain more. Let us say that the current price of a gallon of milk is $2. This is the price that is prevailing in the market as a result of healthy competition between many, many producers. Producers know they can’t charge more than that price for their product because they know you would go and buy your milk from their competition. Why is that possible? Because if I were a milk company and my competitor raised their prices, I most likely won’t because I know that my competitor’s customers would come to me now that my price is lower. The result? Competitors charge a low price for their product and consumers win. Now, let us say that all milk producers get together and decide to simultaneously raise the price to $3. Consumers would have no choice but to buy milk at the new price because there are no alternative sources of milk, all producers raised their price at the same time. In fact, they could probably get away with $5 milk because most people drink milk because they need it. Why don’t milk producers get together and do that? Because laws make such a behavior (forming cartels) illegal! The law protects consumers from greedy producers and ensures that consumers pay a free market price, a fair price. Islam also prohibits such behavior because the producers are taking advantage of their market power and make more and more money, more than a free market price would generate. That is exactly what OPEC is doing! Billions of consumers around the world are paying more money for essentials (oil affects the price of everything because of its effect on transportation—e.g. shipping—costs). True, speculation is affecting oil prices, but if OPEC didn’t exist, the price of oil would be much lower, even with the speculation because the supply of oil would be bigger. Unfair profits are flowing into the bank accounts of oil companies like ExxonMobil and countries such as Saudi Arabia. Just because we’re Saudi doesn’t mean we have to defend OPEC’s unfair, unethical, and haram behavior. It is unfair to every consumer in the world because we are using our market dominance to make more profits than we would if we couldn’t control the supply through OPEC. I think that international law should ban cartels just as the local laws of most countries do, and I think that what we are doing (as a country and as citizens supporting what our country is doing) is very shameful, especially since we’re Muslims.