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How many witches have been recently beheaded in the US ?

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Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Mar 4, 2012 at 06:44

Pied Piper from Saudi Arabia writes :

" The State Dept. and Amnesty Intl. reports you quote make interesting not to say wacky reading but they are pure and laughable bunk.

I am not saying there are no "problems" in the KIngdom. But the way it's usually depicted by the Western press is far from reality and belongs more to the sphere of fiction and fantasy.<

Speaking of "bunk, fiction and fantasy", you have chosen a very symbolic nickname for yourself. It comes from German folk tales, doesn't it, where Pied Piper, an angry rat-catcher, lures with his flute the children away from their hometown Hamelin. They follow him, are led astray and perish. Very symbolic, isn't it? Whom do you consider rats and/or children here to lure away from the truth into the deadly deserts and dungeons of Saudistan's nasty despotism,medieval obscurantism and grim police state ?

Anyway, are you catching rats in Saudistan or doing other remunerative job there for which you are paid thrice or four times the amount you would be if you were doing the same thing in Germany ? I have met people like you. In Sweden a nurse told me that the Saudis lured her colleagues to work in Saudistan with a pay the women could not even aspire to working in such a rich state as Norway. The only problem was they were treated like filthy infidel pigs while in the kingdom unless they converted there to Islam.

I surmise that for renegades like you salary is everything that matters in this world ( I can't believe you're lying about the nature of the Saudi despotism for free ) and if the Devil paid you would be the first advocate of his virtue. Well, the Saudis are the closest analogy of the Devil I can imagine. That's my general impression of whom I am dealing with here.

The problem that arose between us who was exactly lying. I adduced the relevant documents of institutions that have no particular interest in denigrating Saudi Arabia, especially the State Department given the existing US-Saudi axis and a powerful Saudi lobby that protects the House of ibn Saud in exchange for Saudi oil and reinvestment of Saudi petrodollars back in the US. Even they are forced to call a spade a spade.

Now this dispute could be resolved by arbitrage, i.e. a third party. Whom did you quote except yourself, i.e. an interested party ? Do you believe that it is what arbitrage is about ?

> I won't deny that all the "misdeeds" listed may have occurred at one time or another in the Kingdom.....but they've also occurred (at one time or another) in the USA, let alone anywhere else. To deny that they have is simply an exercise in pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking.<

How many witches have been recently beheaded in the US ? How many people received 500 lashes for blasphemy ? Please, don't hesitate to share you vast knowledge on these "misdeeds" which you say have occurred in the US as well. And tell us also something on the activities of the Saudi Religion Police - Mutaween. Start from the school fire in Mecca in 2002 and the girls were forced back into the flames because they were not wearing the Islamically correct dresses.

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revolutions have nothing to do with democracy [235 words]calhouniteApr 10, 2012 10:11195050
Disband this money sucking monstrosity [104 words]danariFeb 23, 2012 00:42193574
Americans the British and the UN [1349 words]Martin HoranMay 31, 2012 08:31193574
The toothless U.N. [68 words]saraFeb 14, 2012 18:53193374
8Democracies and their undemocratic allies [524 words]IanusFeb 13, 2012 18:38193356
American Democracy Can No Longer Be Exported - Cannot Export What One Does Not Have [561 words]M. ToveyFeb 16, 2012 14:30193356
3When you can't export democracy because you don't have it,then you export what you have, e.g. oligarchy or Wahhabism [519 words]IanusFeb 17, 2012 16:07193356
A Rebuttal [394 words]Pied PiperFeb 25, 2012 18:00193356
2A rebuttal of the rebuttal [1095 words]IanusFeb 25, 2012 19:48193356
The Battle of the Rebuttals [519 words]Pied PiperMar 3, 2012 16:43193356
2How many witches have been recently beheaded in the US ? [551 words]IanusMar 4, 2012 06:44193356
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