Saudi religious cop says 'no need' for women to cover up

[Brant Gaede]

Goading people and bullying them with name-calling

I haven't goaded or bullied anyone. I unfortunately said "wet your pants", as opposed to "wet ones pants". I meant it in the general sense.

With no one particularly in mind? To me it looks like six of one and 5 of the other.

--Brant

[Selene]

Thanks ND:

The review of Atlas was, as usual, both enlightening and amusing. I thought the short haired lady was the most amusing. She states at about 10:31 or so, that Atlas is for people who want a justification for selfishness! And for poor behavior!

Huh? I think you're on the wrong thread.

In your post #23 above, you give a link to his blog and the review of Atlas was in the top post of his blog once you went to the book review and clicked on Atlas Shrugged in the side menu ...http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s2992979.htm

should have posted the link ...sorry

Episode 02/11/2010

First Tuesday Book Club is joined by very special guests Max Barry and Monica McInerney to discuss Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Freedom by Jonathon Franzen. WMV MP4

Adam

Edited December 15, 2010 by Selene

[Richard Wiig]

Whatever way you want to put it, Brant. Mountains out of molehills.

[Brant Gaede]

Whatever way you want to put it, Brant. Mountains out of molehills.

Exactly. Bring us a mountain next time.

--Brant

[Richard Wiig]

There are more than enough mountains out there, whichever way you turn, that no time need be lost getting upset by comment about wet pants.

[Robert Campbell]

Kind of like the NBC anchor who says at the cocktail party that she cannot understand how Reagen won in a landslide because no one that she knows voted for him.

Adam,

Pauline Kael actually wrote that about Nixon's reelection in 1972.

Robert Campbell

[Robert Campbell]

Infidel,

I'm not upset by your comment.

I merely think that it was the product of failure to read (as I had expressed a skeptical attitude about al-Ghamdi and any reform agenda he might be promoting) combined with the bad discourse habits that one tends to form at SOLOP.

Robert Campbell

[Richard Wiig]

Robert,

There was no failure to read your comment, which is why I said our comments are not that far apart. They are both skeptical, it's just that you are less crude in saying it than I am. It has nothing to do with SOLO.

[Richard Wiig]

Women with “seditious” eyes must cover up

By StaffPublished Sunday, November 14, 2010

Women in Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative Muslim nations, must veil their faces in public but some of them uncover their eyes. (SUPPLIED)

Women unveiling their eyes in public in Saudi Arabia will be forced to fully cover up their faces if their eyes are found to be seditious, according to the Gulf Kingdom’s most feared Islamic law-enforcement group.

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice was reacting to last week’s fight between one its members and a Saudi husband, who was maddened by the man’s orders to his wife to cover up her face, the Saudi Arabic language daily Alwatan reported on Sunday.

Police are still investigating the incident, in which the husband was stabbed in the back during the fight in the southern province of Hael.

“The Commission members have orders to tell any women in public to cover up her face if they find that her eyes are seditious,” the paper said, quoting Sheikh Mutlaq Al Nabit, a Commission spokesman in Hael.

Women in Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative Muslim nations, must veil their faces in public but some of them uncover their eyes.

Nabit did not explain how the Commission members determine that a woman’s eyes are seditious.

http://www.emirates247.com/news/region/women-with-seditious-eyes-must-cover-up-2010-11-14-1.317325

[George H. Smith]

Women with “seditious” eyes must cover up

Nabit did not explain how the Commission members determine that a woman’s eyes are seditious.

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