Saudi religious freaks blame drought on women

[donsu]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20040401-1349-saudi-rainprayers.html

– Saudi clerics across the kingdom led worshippers in prayers for rain Thursday, blaming a recent drought on sinfulness, including women who unveil themselves or mingle with men.

Thursday's prayers come as Saudi Arabia reported less than normal rainfall over the winter months.

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He singled out women, saying their sins included "bedecking, unveiling, mingling (with men), being indifferent with hijab (the veil)."

Khaled al-Maeena, editor of the English daily Arab News, worried that al-Sudeis' comments could be wrongly interpreted by some listeners.
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who knew "bedecking" would cause drought?
(all women know that "mingling with men" can cause them trouble, but little did we know it would cause drought?)

religious freaks have such tiny brains.

and remember folks our very own bushgang religious freaks are tight friends with the Saudi freaks.

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. at some point

just for the gene pool, that people like this should never be allowed to reproduce

[donsu]

2. speaking of the gene pool

I've long thought there should be a world wide one year moratorium by women not to get pregnant.

think what a relief this would be on the planet's environment.

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. think of what a relief it would be on

my ears, a year without newborns, i would have a better cchance of seeing a movie without someones brat ruining it, i hate children, i am an adult and like to participate in adult activities, but its some peoples fear that what i might want to do, thier children might want to do, and they dont want thier children to do it, so they try to destroy it

[Zookeeper]

4. Let me get this straight...

you were born an adult? No one ever had to tolerate you as a child? Did your parents just lock you up in your room so you wouldn't bother anyone?

You certainly have the right to not like children, but you may want to consider a larger world view...

[Mattforclark]

14. Yeah, what's up with that?

Why do those women always have to impregnate themselves? Those silly women.

[Zookeeper]

5. We're not having a drought in Minnesota..

and we do a lot of bedecking and mingling with men... :evilgrin:

[acmavm]

6. It never ceases to amaze me how men (not all men, so don't get your

shorts in a bunch) can blame all the world's problems on women. Hell, who starts the wars? Who runs, and who have always run, most of the radical warring governments on earth? Religions, western religions anyway, have always been really a collection of 'good old boys' clubs who have somehow figured that women the source of all sin and evil. I don't swallow the Adam and Eve story, and I never will.

Well folks, I am a woman and I'm telling you now, I didn't have a damn thing to do with it. And neither did any of the women I know.

Religion is so dangerous and ugly in the hands of idiots.

[BlueJazz]

7. Those damn women are at it again!

Boy...I'm so sick and tired of women causing all the ills of our
"Manly Earth".
I mean, before we men allowed those pesky females to inhabit our planet we had not even heard of doughts, plauges, floods, hurricanes,
high gas prices, wars and what have you...
If it was up to me (a Manly Man) we would send them back to where-ever they came from.

[JCMach1]

8. Please be careful spreading reports like these, because

they help spread the racist attitude many Americans have about this part of the world.

It was if the world were judging us by what Pat Robertson, or God (or Allah forbid) or Dr. Jerry Vines who brought us this...

"This week's annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention was met with some unexpected fireworks after my friend Dr. Jerry Vines, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., declared that Muhammad was a "demon-possessed pedophile" and that Islam teaches the destruction of all non-Muslims." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27975

The young Saudi ladies (and young men) I teach would be some of the first to point out the idiocy found in the article above. The conservative ones would even be able to tell the Koran verses that reveal it so...

anyway ...

[donsu]

9. I think reality is spreadable - we are talking about misogyny here

nt

[JCMach1]

10. All well and good, but ask yourself the question

Why was the story published?

What does it matter what the equivalent of Dr. Vines says... it's all idiocy!?

The Middle-east is changing at light speed. Unless you are living it, it's difficult to understand...

That creates huge amounts of cognitive dissonance for the conservatives.

It's also a complex issue. For example, many rights of women are protected under Islam. Meanwhile the cultural imperative says something else (culture and Islam being 2 distinct things sometimes).

There are now even women cab drivers in Dubai...

Times they are a changin'

[donsu]

11. Is the "middle east changing at light speed" ?

perhaps this could be a new thread.

is it just the men of the middle east light speed changing?

and I see the women of the middle east hanging on, hanging in, surviving as best can and making progress little by little.

[JCMach1]

15. Women are making huge progress against entrenched

cultural mores...

and in all areas, work, education, legal aspects... but I digress.

[arewethereyet]

12. I thought SA was a desert, how can there be drought ?

so it only rains every other year insted of every year ?

I suspect its more like Allah being pissed off about their support of terrorism as opposed to whatever the women are doing.

[JCMach1]

13. It does rain on occasion

like 3 times for a total of maybe a few cm so far this year...


KSA may be worse off, I am not sure.