Not a Failure: Saudi Arabia Before and #AfterMarch11

by Nour Merza

They called it a failure. But the white robes that filled the streets of the Saudi capital yesterday show another side of the story. Two days after the March 11 Day of Rage that no one but police officers attended, small protests sparked in Riyadh. These developments suggest that despite analysts’ claims that March 11 was a “non-event,” there is evidence that proves otherwise. Taking a closer look at the event reveals that, rather than being a failure, March 11 was in fact a success. read

Certified Islam: The Verdict (P2)

How can this certified version of Islam, which openly claims that its priority is to get on the right train to the next life, be the most suitable platform for socio-politico-economic progress in this life?

Isn’t there an obvious conflict of interest between a man who is willing to put this life on hold, in order to make another hour-long investment (prayer) into the next life, and yet tells you that it is this very act of investing in the next life, that qualifies him to govern in this life?

Certified Islam: The Verdict (P1)

Surely if you were a tyrant, you wouldn’t want the people to read the Quran on their own, because they would conclude that their priority is to chop your head off.

That’s how over one billion Muslims have been taught to relieve the guilt of self-afflicted impotence. They have not been given classes in “swimming, archery, and horse-riding” as the prophet and the Quran ordered.

Certified Islam

Ever wonder how the Muslim World ended up with a mainstream interpretation of Islam that has no concern or objection to:

environmental pollution, healthcare, smoking, direct and indirect domination and exploitation of resources, the spread of junk-food and associated diseases, consumerism, unemployment, unions, poverty, famine, natural disasters, mass corruption and bribary, and Israeli-owned sweatshops in sovereign Arab states?

The Hijab Alternative

If all men were blind, would Sharia grant women the right to walk naked in the streets?

It is that men have eyes that seems to be the one and only reason why the ultra-religious insist on the necessity for women to cover up.

This is proof that, contrary to ultra-religious oxymoronic views, cultural norms and habits trump any religious teaching.

“Pay the worker his wage before his sweat dries”

Guess what this image is…

A Sri Lankan maid whose Saudi employer allegedly hammered 23 nails into her arms, legs and forehead is set to undergo surgery Friday, while government officials meet with Saudi diplomats in Colombo over the incident.

Saudi Women Boycott Lingerie Shops

Welcome to the Kingdom, where in order to buy lingerie, one must enter a shop staffed by men, discuss one’s size and other needs with said male sales associates (as well as let them handle the pretty underthings), and all without being allowed to try anything on. Apparently, Saudi women are fed up with the [...]