Clinton Still Good for a Laugh
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Posted on 01/26/2004 6:49:28 AM PST by Theodore R.
Clinton still good for a laugh
Posted: January 26, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
When you think about Saudi Arabia's human-rights abuses, what comes to mind first?
Is it the fact that slavery still exists in the nation?
Is it that the country observes not even the slightest hint of religious tolerance and zealously persecutes everyone but Sunni Muslims as infidels?
Is it that the nation still chops off hands of those caught stealing?
Is it that women have no rights under the law?
Is it that polygamy is still widely practiced?
Or is it the way the kingdom fosters hate around the world through its system of Islamic maddrassas?
I could go on and on speculating, but these would certainly all make my top-10 list of reasons to denounce Saudi Arabia as one of the most backward, oppressive, tyrannical regimes in the world.
Do you know what bugs former President Bill Clinton most about Saudi Arabia? It's the fact that the kingdom does not allow women to drive.
Speaking at a conference in Saudi Arabia, Clinton told a Muslim audience Islam's founder Muhammad would have let women drive if cars had been around 1,400 years ago.
Clinton urged the Muslim kingdom, which follows the strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islam, not to resist the "tide of change" in the world and seek ways of broadening political participation "without compromising your faith and culture."
Broadening political participation? There is no political participation.
Of course, the Saudis don't allow women to drive because they love them so much. Or, at least, that's what the fatwa on the subject claimed in 1990 – that Islam supports women's dignity. You know how undignifying it can be to drive.
But Clinton approached the subject as something of a Quranic theological scholar. He didn't just say it is wrong not to let women drive. He said Muhammad would have let his wife get behind the wheel.
"He probably would have made Saudi Arabia the first automobile-producing nation on earth and put her in charge of the business," he reportedly said.
I believe it. It sounds like something Clinton would say.
Personally, I'm more offended with the deprivation of basic human rights in Saudi Arabia than with what we consider in this country a privilege – driving.
But what would we expect from Clinton? Only he could look at the cruelest, most barbarous, evil oligarchy on earth and criticize the transportation system.
The only difference it would make if women drive was that they might have a slightly better chance of escaping to freedom – which, of course, is probably one of the reasons they are kept without such privileges.
Of all the things for an ex-president to focus upon ... Saudi Arabia is thought to be developing weapons of mass destruction. It has secretly put together an arsenal of medium-range missiles with which it can attack its neighbors. It is still providing the lion's share of funding to terrorists throughout the world. It respects neither freedom of speech nor freedom of the press. Praying to the Christian or Jewish God or Bible-reading even in the privacy of one's own home is a crime.
None of that offends Bill Clinton. He wants a woman chauffeur the next time he comes to Saudi Arabia.
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Posted on 01/26/2004 6:49:28 AM PST by Theodore R.
Clinton still good for a laugh
Posted: January 26, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
When you think about Saudi Arabia's human-rights abuses, what comes to mind first?
Is it the fact that slavery still exists in the nation?
Is it that the country observes not even the slightest hint of religious tolerance and zealously persecutes everyone but Sunni Muslims as infidels?
Is it that the nation still chops off hands of those caught stealing?
Is it that women have no rights under the law?
Is it that polygamy is still widely practiced?
Or is it the way the kingdom fosters hate around the world through its system of Islamic maddrassas?
I could go on and on speculating, but these would certainly all make my top-10 list of reasons to denounce Saudi Arabia as one of the most backward, oppressive, tyrannical regimes in the world.
Do you know what bugs former President Bill Clinton most about Saudi Arabia? It's the fact that the kingdom does not allow women to drive.
Speaking at a conference in Saudi Arabia, Clinton told a Muslim audience Islam's founder Muhammad would have let women drive if cars had been around 1,400 years ago.
Clinton urged the Muslim kingdom, which follows the strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islam, not to resist the "tide of change" in the world and seek ways of broadening political participation "without compromising your faith and culture."
Broadening political participation? There is no political participation.
Of course, the Saudis don't allow women to drive because they love them so much. Or, at least, that's what the fatwa on the subject claimed in 1990 – that Islam supports women's dignity. You know how undignifying it can be to drive.
But Clinton approached the subject as something of a Quranic theological scholar. He didn't just say it is wrong not to let women drive. He said Muhammad would have let his wife get behind the wheel.
"He probably would have made Saudi Arabia the first automobile-producing nation on earth and put her in charge of the business," he reportedly said.
I believe it. It sounds like something Clinton would say.
Personally, I'm more offended with the deprivation of basic human rights in Saudi Arabia than with what we consider in this country a privilege – driving.
But what would we expect from Clinton? Only he could look at the cruelest, most barbarous, evil oligarchy on earth and criticize the transportation system.
The only difference it would make if women drive was that they might have a slightly better chance of escaping to freedom – which, of course, is probably one of the reasons they are kept without such privileges.
Of all the things for an ex-president to focus upon ... Saudi Arabia is thought to be developing weapons of mass destruction. It has secretly put together an arsenal of medium-range missiles with which it can attack its neighbors. It is still providing the lion's share of funding to terrorists throughout the world. It respects neither freedom of speech nor freedom of the press. Praying to the Christian or Jewish God or Bible-reading even in the privacy of one's own home is a crime.
None of that offends Bill Clinton. He wants a woman chauffeur the next time he comes to Saudi Arabia.
