Ask me about my country(Saudi Arabia)

Hello, I'll answer all the questions you have about Saudi Arabia, people, religion, traditions, culture, scandals, etc. and I'll try to be unbiased :)

if you wanna ask questions about me then I'll answer them too.

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Permalink Reply by Prefer Not to Say on March 2, 2010 at 6:24am
Sure, ask any question you want to ask, I'll be happy to answer them all.

I didn't understand the question, I don't think I have above average education, people in Saudi tend to be educated, many don't speak English very well though, can you please rephrase the question?

what do you mean by communication? Do you mean English?
Permalink Reply by Prefer Not to Say on March 2, 2010 at 6:37am
To janna thorson-jabr in page 3, No not Albarrak, I even posted my reply before Albarrak made his fatwa, I'm talking about shiekh al-Shathri, he didn't suggest to kill anyone, I can give you a link to his fatwa on tv if you understand Arabic.
Permalink Reply by janna thorson-jabr on March 3, 2010 at 4:39am
Ah, okay. I don't know about this al-Shathri. Thanks for clarifying. Sure, go ahead and post the link :) So, how do you feel about people's criticism of al-Barrak, does it undermine their own ideals of freedom of speech, as you explained about people's criticism of this other sheikh's fatwa? Or do you consider his case any different since he proposed murdering those he disagrees with?
Permalink Reply by Prefer Not to Say on March 3, 2010 at 6:47am
This is the video, its 9 minutes long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmEUc5fxy9w


I think al-barrak was wrong and extreme, I don't support that kind of freedom of speech.
Permalink Reply by amer muhammad on March 3, 2010 at 7:30am
Hello, I am from Pakistan. I have watched many people from my place over the years who worked in your country. In the begining they remain as normal person working abroad. Then they opened religious schools(madrissa) here in Pakistan while still being in Saudi Arabia themselves and suddenly became very rich. There are many theories about their wealth here. Some say they bring Zakwat Money donated by Arabs. another theory is that Arabs directly fund religious schooling. My question is in which form they get the money from Arabs. Boy! some of them became very rich within no time from just an ordinary persons.
Permalink Reply by Prefer Not to Say on March 3, 2010 at 7:35am
I don't know, I never heard of that. There are something like a million Pakistani in Saudi, some make good money and some work in normal jobs.
Permalink Reply by Ally on March 3, 2010 at 3:18pm
Hello!
I've just read throught the whole thread! Now I feel more educated about Saudi.
I was very impressed by the bravery of the guy filming in Mecca! Right inside the great Mosque! Whoa!
My question is about slaves.
Is it legal in Saudi Arabia to have slaves? I read in a National Geographic magazine from 2005 (or 2004?) that there are 27 million slaves (includes Sex Trade) in the World and that Saudi Arabian rich people have slaves.
Do you know if this is true?
Also how does prostitution (paying for sex) work in Saudi?
Thank you again for taking all of these questions!
Permalink Reply by Prefer Not to Say on March 3, 2010 at 4:04pm
Hello Ally, well nobody knows that the guy is an atheist, so its not that dangerous, I might go to makkah again one day if my mom asked me to take her there.


slavery here is illegal, although slavery is allowed in Islam, its allowed for a ruler to outlaw anything halal and that what king Faisal did. I don't think any rich would risk having slaves when they can easily afford low paid servants, never heard of it but doubt it.

problem in Saudi we have many expats, many of them payed low, some of them are treated badly, and some of them never wanted to come but forced by their own family. (there is a belief in some parts in Asia that if you had a low-intelligent son send him to work outside and he will come back smart, many sons don't want to work outside)

how prostitution works,

To get a working visa in Saudi you need a sponsor and every individual can get limited amount of visas(depends if he owns a business, need a personal driver, maid, etc) some Saudis don't have any business so they get unskilled workers from usually countries like Bangladesh, then he tells the guy that he is free to do what work he want to do and only wants from him 500SR(around 130$) a month, some of these clean cars/building to make money and some of them go into illegal business like selling alcohol, selling drugs, theft or turning his apartment into a whorehouse and then find maids running away or try to tempt ones and then they will sell them for other foreign workers(usually from their own kin)

and there are many other problems, I blame these problems on both Saudis and foreign workers
Permalink Reply by Ally on March 3, 2010 at 4:15pm
Thanks!
Permalink Reply by QM - [Mr. Molotov] on April 4, 2010 at 3:49pm
This is really very interesting discussion..and the credit for most part goes to the initiator of the topic :-)

I have a comment and a question. The comment is, I too hate it when I get to hear "Dakhool-e-shabab mamnoo" at malls!! And the question is, why does KSA blocks websites of various religions (including religious tolerance website) but is allowing atheist sites (like Atheist Nexus, Think Atheist etc.)? Does atheism pose a lower level of threat than other religions and schisms?
Permalink Reply by Prefer Not to Say on April 4, 2010 at 7:56pm
The only religious websites that I know of blocked by the government is the ones attacking Islam. There are plenty of non-Islamic websites that aren't banned in the kingdom like Christianforums.

No I don't think atheism pose a lower threat, it actually pose the highest threat to Islam.
Permalink Reply by Secular Forces 2013 on June 27, 2010 at 8:40pm
How far back does the laden and bush connection go?

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