Saturday, February 04, 2006

Keep your women safe!

While that ferry sinking in the Red Sea is tragic, the bigger tragedy will never be reported. You can read about how the crew took people life jackets away, or insisted on going >100 miles to Egypt instead back 20 miles to Saudi, with a fire burning on the vehicle deck. Here is what you will read very little about. One of the reason there were so few survivors is that most of women (and probably the children too) were locked in their cabins when the ship sank. The crew and men in general locked the women up to prevent them from panicking. Clearly the crew felt if there was panicking to be done; they were the ones to do it, which might explain why they took off in the life boats. I don’t blame them for not wanting to turn back; since the Saudi’s special religious police probably wouldn’t have let the women off the burning boat anyways.
You think I am being funny?
I not and here's an example, a girl’s school in Saudi (I know your thinking why would girls need to be educated, when they can be bare foot and pregnant without one. I assume it was either an ultra left wing school or was some sort of school were the one’s that insisted females have brains too could have that illusion dispelled.) Well anyway, the school caught fire, and the firemen started bringing the girls out without veils. When the special religious police came, they beat (like with sticks) the fireman for shaming the girls by taking them from the vigorously burning building without veils and forced the girls back into the burning building to get their veils. Then when girls couldn’t get their veils and tried to flee the smoke filled, burning building, the special police forced them back in and barred the doors, so most of the girls (as in dozens) died! The moral of this story is the fire department needs to carry emergency veils on the trucks. (I say that only half kidding.) Actually here is what I want you to think about, why didn’t the US media make this lead story/front page news? Why? Because no one Democrat or Republican, is willing to do anything that might cause the Saudi’s not to want to sell us every drop of oil they’ve got.

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