On Kuwait Elections, Iran Elections, Saudi War on Witchcraft and Sorcery. Egypt’s Chemical War
My Gulf of Contrasts:“Women achieve great wins in Kuwait assembly vote, gain at least four seats…..” News agencies: May 17.
“Minority nationalities enter Iranian presidential elections: Turkish, Baluchi, Kurdish, and Arab enter the race…..” News agencies: May 17.
I wonder if one of them can beat the current fool who holds the job.
"The (Saudi) Authority for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (religious police) executed another successful raid on witches and sorcerers. The culprits had been shoving copes of the Quran inside sewer pipes in order to appease ‘the Devil’…The raid comes after the Authority established a new specialized unit‘The Center To Fight Sorcery and Witchcraft’ with branches in all Saudi provinces…” Alarabiya
Oh, goody. Now the people have nothing to worry about. Their sewers are safe from witches, sorcerers, and more important, the devil. Speaking of sewers: now if they can find a way to deal with the pesky giant cockroaches, what a friend of mine used to call the "Nazis"...
My Gulf (what you call Persian, not of Mexico) has interesting contrasts. Just go back and read the three items above. Read them more than once.
“Christian and Muslim intellectuals accuse the regime of allying itself to Muslim fundamentalists who are waging a war on the existence of swine in Egypt: Although eliminating pigs is no longer considered necessary in the war against the Swine Flu (H1N1), the War on Pigs continues in Egypt. This according to a recent video on the internet that has caused much controversy and protests. The video shows how hundreds of swine are packed into trucks, at gunpoint, and taken to remote desert areas where they are eliminated by the use of chemicals and buried in mass graves..…” Middle East Online. al-Masri
This Egyptian fiasco has certain elements of past horrors…like the days of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge and even beyond that…
Cheers
mhg
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