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Thursday, January 24, 2013

If Saudi Arabia's youth were to start a revolution, will the USA and UK come to their aid?


What do you think?  The warmongers are always going about how we must help to bring democracy wherever the people cry for it by going to wars to bring it about ....but would  they help the Saudi youth if and when the time comes?  Did the USA or UK or any of those two-faced NATO nations come to the aid of the Iranian students protesting amass to topple the islamic  regime there ?

The USA will not want to jeopardize their oil interests and the interests of  the hundreds of  US security companies getting big bucks from their masters there and that's that.  Even a whisper of a  revolt will be quashed by the USA security thugs and the public relations firms (again USA based) would white-out any  news of such uprisings.  Hypocritical USA,  hypocritical Judeo-Christian members of  NATO !!

From TheEconomist:
Like much that moves in Twitter-mad Saudi Arabia these days,   it started with a single message. A lady in Dammam, the hub of the oil industry on the kingdom’s Gulf coast, tweeted a complaint from a local shopping mall. Agents of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), she said, were causing an unpleasant scene. The government-salaried vigilantes, a bearded auxiliary police force familiarly known to Saudis as the Hayaa, had marched officiously into an educational exhibit featuring plaster models of dinosaurs, turned off the lights and ordered everyone out, frightening children and alarming their parents.



It was unclear precisely why the religious police objected to the exhibit, which apparently had been innocently featured at shopping centres across the Gulf for decades. Malls are one of the few public spaces where Saudis mix socially, and so often draw the Hayaa’s attentions. Gone, however, are the days when its agents can go about their business unchallenged.

Within minutes of the incident, a freshly minted Arabic Twitter hashtag, #Dammam-Hayaa-Closes-Dinosaur-Show, was generating scores of theories about their motives. Perhaps, suggested one, there was a danger that citizens might start worshipping dinosaur statues instead of God. Maybe it was just a temporary measure, said another, until the Hayaa can separate male and female dinosaurs and put them in separate rooms. Surely, declared a third, one of the lady dinosaurs had been caught in public without a male guardian. A fourth announced an all-points police alert for Barney the Dinosaur, while another suggested it was too early to judge until it was clear what the dinosaurs were wearing.

Several contributors injected bawdy innuendo into their comments. Noting that one of the displays showed a dinosaur riding on the back of another, one message declared that this was obviously sexually suggestive and possibly could be categorised as a Westernising influence. "I confess," declared one penitent, "I saw a naked dinosaur thigh and felt aroused." Another tweet provided this helpful tip to the suspicious CPVPV: "No, no, that long thing is a tail!"

But most of the messages singled out the religious police for ridicule. "They worried that people would find the dinosaurs more highly evolved than themselves," explained one. "It’s the Hayaa that should be stuffed and mounted so future generations can learn about extinct animals," quipped another. This message adopted a more pedantic tone: "Dinosaurs are a paleontological life form from an ancient geological era, and our clerics are a paleontological life form from an ancient social era." "Hello? Stone Age? We have some of your people; can you please come and collect them?" pleaded one tweep. Another wrote: "If the dinosaurs were still alive they’d be saying, thank God for extinction."....

3 comments:

  1. Refreshing to see there is some modern independent thought in that 9th century mindset country.

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  2. Yes .... it's the result of some Saudi families sending their kids abroad for their education. The rich send to the USA, UK and Canada. The not so rich, to India. Hopefully, the new generation will vanquish the old caveman mentality in that country.

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  3. Also refreshing to see the sardonic humour used. Who knew?
    Anyway, don't hold your breath for a change for the better. At least not in our lifetimes..

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