Bizzaro....

Submitted by Kamel Krazie (Canada), Aug 22, 2007 at 04:03

The Saudi Arabian initiatives aimed at generating foreign tourism has got to be the biggest excercise in futility, pythonesque surreality at it's best. Who in their right mind would want to holiday in this den of inequity, who would want to basque in the land of abject intolerance, relish in gaudy saudi's brand of rigtheous indignation , shadowed by its religious police force attached to it's notorious mutawwa'in {the committee for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice}?

I recommend that SA should stick with their ‘captured' tourists those ready and willing to take that big bite in ideological fanatasism , the annual hajj , millions of hajists ripe for that ‘good old fashion religion', a bizzare display of euphoric spirituality. With masses of backs perpetualy hoisted-up westward they could market that whole experience as the ‘ World's greatest aromatherapy fest' ...

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