saudi marriage official says 1yr old bride ok

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Why is anyone surprised?

This is Saudi Arabia we're talking about. Things is fukced up out there.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Beyond doubt, it shows just how regressive the House of Saud, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, are!

Believe it or not there are people here who admire their justice system - of public beatings and amputations...

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Beyond doubt, it shows just how regressive the House of Saud, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, are!

Believe it or not there are people here who admire their justice system - of public beatings and amputations...

Those people are fukced up.

[almaty 19]

total agreement...

[Amby 490]

I think this whole thing is fukced up

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Why is anyone surprised?

This is Saudi Arabia we're talking about. Things is fukced up out there.

No surprise--as it was "awarded" by T.L. Lawrence, to Abdul Aziz, a total chopf#ck (sympathised with Hitler against Brits, who had made him king in the first place)!

(edit: Lawrence was also a chopf#ck, but not necessarily relevant to issue here)

Edited June 26, 2008 by CherryXS

[Sister Fracas 5]

no respect for the stupid backward dictatorship country...who hides behind a bastardized version of Islam and is deeming to more than 1/2 its'citizens

I thought the second half of your thought there was important because some people like to just paint all of Islam with the same brush.

Edited June 26, 2008 by Sister Fracas

[almaty 19]

Wahabis have also committed controversial and violent actions against fellow Muslims. In 1801 and 1802, the Saudi Salafis under Abdul Aziz ibn Muhammad ibn Saud attacked and captured the holy Shi'a cities of Karbala and Najaf in Iraq, massacred parts of the Shi'a population and destroyed the tombs of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad, and Ali bin Abu Talib, the son-in-law of Muhammad. In 1802 they occupied Taif where they also massacred the population. In 1803 and 1804 the Saudis captured Mecca and Medina and destroyed historical monuments and various holy Muslim sites and shrines, such as the shrine built over the tomb of Fatima Zahra, the daughter of Muhammad, and even intended to destroy the grave of the Prophet Muhammad himself.[24][25][26][27][28

The modern Saudi state is founded on the 18th-century alliance between the Wahhabi religious movement and the House of Saud.[1] Wahhabism is the dominant form of Islam found in Saudi Arabia and Qatar,[2] and is also popular in Kuwait, Egypt U.A.E., Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania.

It is often referred to as a "sect"[2] or "branch"[3] of Islam, though its supporters reject such designations.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Since we're taking North Korea of the list of official sponsors of terror, there will be an opening on the list. I would like to suggest Saudi Arabia

[almaty 19]

look brother arijit, speak for yourself..i see a jihad coming your way....

[Amby 490]

Has anyone seen the movie Water?

The year is 1938, India is ruled by the British, and it is around this time that Mohandas K. Gandhi has arrived from Africa to begin his tryst with the British, as well as battle the traditions that bind the Hindus. Not yet in her teens, Chuyia is married to a much older and sickly male, who shortly after the marriage, passes away. Chuyia is returned unceremoniously to her parents' house, and from there she is taken to the holy city of Banaras and left in the care of a wide assortment of widows who live at "the widows' house," shunned by the rest of the community. Chuyia believes that her mother will come to take her home. Here she meets several elderly women, including the head of the house, Madhumati; a quiet, confident woman named Shakuntala; and a gorgeous young woman named Kalyani -- all widows. Chuyia does not know that according to Holy Hindu Scriptures she has been destined to live here for the rest of her life, for when a woman's husband dies', she has three options: One, to marry her husband's younger brother, if his family permits; two, to kill herself on his funeral pyre; three, to live a life of celibacy, discipline, and solitude amongst her own kind. A new law in India which permits a widow to re-marry is not popular, and it is these customs and openly welcoming the lower castes that will pit Gandhiji against his very own people, apart from struggling with the British to leave India. Kalyani meets and falls in love with young Narayan, a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, who wants to marry her, despite his mother's protests. But on the day he comes to take her to his home, as they are crossing the river to his family estate, Kalyani recognizes the house, the very same house she had been forced to visit as a "prostitute," to be with Narayan's father. The question remains, can Kalyani marry the man she loves? Will he want to marry her when he knows what has passed between her and his father? And is Chuyia really destined to live the rest of her life as a widow among shunned widows?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240200/

Edited June 26, 2008 by Amby

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Since we're taking North Korea of the list of official sponsors of terror, there will be an opening on the list. I would like to suggest Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia can fill the top 3 openings all on its lonesome.

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

Since we're taking North Korea of the list of official sponsors of terror, there will be an opening on the list. I would like to suggest Saudi Arabia

i think fence builders need recognition.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Has anyone seen the movie Water?

Yes.

[Amby 490]

Has anyone seen the movie Water?

Yes.

I thought it was really good!