Middle East Focus: Nuclear Princes: Ulema to go Ballistic, Re-education of Housemaids……..

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Nuclear Princes: Ulema to go Ballistic, Re-education of Housemaids……..

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Al-Quds Alarabi (published from London although reportedly funded from Qatar) reports that Saudi Arabia plans to “purchase” a nuclear bomb as soon as the Iranians announce that they have developed one. If the Iranians follow the Israeli book and never announce, then the Saudis will “purchase” their own bomb as soon as Benjamin Netanyahu officially announces that the Iranians have developed the bomb. If Benjamin Netanyahu by some miracle declines to opine on the subject, perhaps due to Laryngitis, they will form a committee of the clergy (ulema) to decide the matter. Or they may just decide to ask the ayatollahs about it, hoping they would tell the truth. A fatwa will be in order.

The daily quotes the London Times which quotes a top Saudi official which probably quotes one of his wives that the Saudis will never be content with male dancing and verses of praise at the annual Al Jenadriya “festival”, not after that. Surprisingly, the newspaper did not name Prince Turki al-Faisal, the only will probably be inundated with emails and other solicitations and attractive offers from secretive Nigerian sources in Lagos and Abuja and London.
That means the Saudis will have to retrain the tens of thousands, nay hundreds of thousands, of their Wahhabi ulema, the clergy, in nuclear physics. The palindromic Shaikh Al Al Al Shaikh will have to become conversant in such terms as Uranium 235 (U-235), Uranium 238 (U-238), enrichment, yellow cake, delivery systems, and maybe even Niger. He may be forced to break his taboo against the sin of cinema and watch Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb). He will have to fatwa on all these weighty issues.

There will also be a huge shift in the favorite Saudi import: human labor. Henceforth, the millions of imported Asian and African housemaids will have to be conversant in rudimentary physics. There will be a fatwa before that: “a real good education starts in the crib and the diaper, no matter how soiled”.
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mhg

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