Saudi Arabia Has 100,000 Air Conditioned Tents That Can House 3 Million People Sitting Empty Yet Has Taken Zero Refugees (Iran, middle east)
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Let's see. You are a refugee in a country bombed by Obama with no plan to deal with the aftermath. Time to leave the utter chaos, lawlessness, danger to your family. Do you choose to travel to a:
A fundamentalist hypocritical Wahhabist dictatorship ruled by a corrupt "royal" family.
A first world country where individual rights are respected and laws are (for the most part) by democratic means.
Saudi's leaders care about Saudi and their citizens. They aren't complete idiots. Far more than we can say about the nations who's leaders are allowing these criminals in.
This is compassionate conservatism at its best. The conservative Saudi government will espouse religion but will not take care of the less fortunate. Sort of like our conservatives here at home actually cue the outrage over 10,000 syrians coming our way
Who do you think those tents are for. regular people? Or the loyal family members and friends etc.
Every year upwards of 3 million pilgrims walk and retrace the route of Mohammed's flight from Mecca to Medina and his triumphant return at the head of his followers in Medina to retake the Mecca. The Pilgrimage takes place during the month of Ramadan and is called the Haji. Every Muslim if he can afford it should do the Haji since it is one of the 5 pillars of Faith that define Islam. The Saudi's provide for this multitude the water food, clothing (a simple white Kaftan that all pilgrims wear so all are equal in the sight of GOD), simple leather thongs and shelter (Hence the tents) . Tents because this enormous encampment must be moved everyday to where the pilgrims stop to spend the night. The Haji takes nearly 3 weeks. Its a miracle of logistics to pull this off on such a large scale in the middle of a desert.
Muslims who complete the Haji bear the title al-Haji . The Haji can be completed any time but there is extra significance completing it during Ramadan. Much like a Christian walking the stations of the Cross in Jerusalem on Good Friday.
What...we Americans run Saudi immigration policy now?
The Saudis didn't create this mess in the Middle East. The West's decades old meddling in M.E. affairs DID help create it. We helped destabilize that region...and passing the buck to the Saudis ain't gonna work. They aren't stupid enough to fall for that one.
What...we Americans run Saudi immigration policy now?
The Saudis didn't create this mess in the Middle East. The West's decades old meddling in M.E. affairs DID help create it. We helped destabilize that region...and passing the buck to the Saudis ain't gonna work. They aren't stupid enough to fall for that one.
Have you no knowledge of history?
Even going back to the fall of the Ottoman Empire (read up on how meddlesome THOSE GUYS were, btw... up until just a couple hundred years ago they couldn't get enough European sex slaves, European territory or little boys from Europe to serve as tribute).... it was powerful families such as the Sauds, etc. that worked with the UN/Britain to carve up the Middle East after WW1. Everyone lays the blame for that at the feet of the "west," perpetually infantilizing anyone who isn't European as helpless and hapless victims when that is not true at all!
Next, Saudi Arabis is basically THE #1 primo exporter of Wahabbist extremist version of Islam around the world. With their vast resources they evangelize better than anyone. It's as if the Christian Puritans would have had their way and power. THAT'S the brand of Islam that is on the rise.
Not to mention, so much "US meddling" in the Middle East is done for the benefit and comfort of Saudi Arabia. Much of our opposition towards Iran is shared with Saudi, who consider them enemies. Our involvement in Gulf War 1 was to protect the business interests of Saudi and Kuwaiti billionaires as much as American ones.
One of three reasons Bin Laden "struck" the US was "American presence in Saudi Arabia"... conveniently forgetting that the Saudis literally invited us in.
(And by the way, even in Iran, that country could be a powerhouse of enlightenment and culture in 2015 if they'd actually kept the damn Shah in power! But idiot "religious students" had to swap one dictator for an even worse one. In the name of Allah).
So yeah... Saudi Arabia needs to step it up and help their Muslim brothers. The "West" and its voracious oil appetite is the only reason why the Middle East has any semblance of an economy anyway. That religion and region isn't exactly known for having dynamic cultures that innovate and produce. And if Europe doesn't get its crap together and remember what their true values are, that'll be their future too in no time.
I'd actually vote for ANY candidate that ran on a platform of disengagement from the Middle East.
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