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E-mailSaudi law does not have much a legislative body. Until a few years ago, there wasn’t even the facade of one. Now the Saudis have the honor of have a male-only parliament where half of the MPs are elected in elections where only men are allowed to vote; the other half are appointed by the King.
Needless to say, such a body does not have much clout and a new elections to such a toothless institution have already been postponed. Most Saudi law is made arbitrarily by the Kingdom’s ultra-conservative Wahhabi clerics. They sit, mingle and then decide what new oppression they will inflict on Saudis.
They have found a new arena: cosmetic alteration. Plastic surgery is, regrettable, quite common in the Middle East. Lebanese starlets like Nancy Ajram have popularized the “art” of artificially raised eyebrows, high checks and dense lips:
The Middle East is becoming of the top regions for cosmetic surgery, especially the puffing up of lips. Many Muslims have used the Qur’an to justify such surgery be citing the Qur’an principle of seeking happiness or something like that.
Saudi clerics have offered their own wisdom:
The verdict was that it’s halal (sanctioned) to augment unusually small breasts, fix features that are causing a person grief, or reverse damage from an accident. But undergoing an unsafe procedure or changing the shape of a “perfect nose” just to resemble a singer or actress is haram (forbidden).
Nice to know.
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He went to doctor after doctor, but none of them could help Him. Finally, he went to an Arab doctor, who said, 'Take dees bocket, go Into de odder room, shit in de bocket, piss on de shit, and den put your head Down over de bocket and breathe in de fumes for ten minutes.'
Ahmid took The bucket, went into the other room, shit in the bucket, pissed on the shit, Bent over and breathed in the fumes for ten minutes.
Coming back to the Doctor he said, 'It worked. I feel terrific! What was wrong with Me?'
The doctor said, 'You were homesick .'
This proves it all!lol!!
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File Type: ImageWhy take pictures of covered Muslim women?
You see, Westerners marginalize Arabs by calling us all Ahmed, or Belly Dancing Beauty. They marginalize us by demeaning our language and our names. They marginalize us by focusing on Arabs who speak with heavy accents, and dismissing, insulting or casting aspersions upon those of us who "sound like Westerners."
You don't know how many times I've been told that I don't look or sound like a Leila Abu-Saba, as if somehow with my name I should not speak proper English, nor have a straight nose and pale skin. As if getting an Oxonian education (or Oberlin or Yale) makes us not Arabs anymore, because Arabs are uncivilized ipso facto.