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The Spectacle Blog
In between posing as Islamic purists, funding terrorists, and repressing Christians, women, and anyone who believes in human rights, the Saudi princes are busy. Reports the Jerusalem Post:
United States diplomats have described a world of “sex, drugs and alcohol” in which the official religious individuals of Saudi Arabian loyalties engage in, according diplomatic cables recently published by Wikileaks on Wednesday.
According to the leaked dispatches, officials from the Jeddah consulate detailed an underground Halloween party in which alcohol and prostitutes were readily available. The party, attended by over 150 Saudi men and women mostly in their twenties and thirties, was organized by a member of the Saudi royalty, a wealthy prince from the Al Thunayan family.
Maybe the party is the last official stop in a very special version of the traditional Haj.
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Alan Brooks| 12.9.10 @ 9:18PM
Oh c'mon, that happens everywhere. Name one church that doesn't include in its members a few college-age students who drink and or ball.
Besides, if you lived in Saudi Arabia, what else would there be for you to do on weekends besides as least drinking and, say, pills?
kingsmill| 12.9.10 @ 9:40PM
Stoning adulteresses is always on the to do list....
WB| 12.9.10 @ 10:28PM
Wow! Hypocritical Muslim potentates! Who da thunk??
cheapairjordan | 12.9.10 @ 9:57PM
tahnks your share!
Alan Brooks| 12.9.10 @ 9:59PM
First they marry an already married woman in a quick ceremony, rape her, and then they stone her for being an adultress.
NavyBrat | 12.10.10 @ 1:38PM
Alan, this is one of the funniest things I've seen you post in a long time! For future reference, please observe the "spew alert" policy so that I don't have to wipe another mouthful of Sprite off of my monitor!
Answers1| 12.9.10 @ 10:30PM
Why are these people in power, and what is their legitimacy?
David W| 12.9.10 @ 10:53PM
They were in the right place at the right time, just like any king/dictator.
Jeremiah| 12.9.10 @ 11:59PM
"Prostitutes"? More likely, these women were foreign workers subjected to enslavement and repeated acts of rape by their Saudi captors. Any notion of the equal dignity of females as having been made no less than males in the divine image is utterly foreign to how Saudis treat women. Saudi women could be executed for voluntarily engaging in fornication, let alone prostitution. See Jean Sasson's book Princess. If the United State consulate is not aware of the continuing practice of slavery within Saudi Arabia, that would speak poorly of its intelligence-gathering, though I have trouble believing that this is actually the case.
Martin Owens| 12.10.10 @ 1:47AM
This is nothing new.
The hi-jinks of Saudi princes are practically a right of passage. King Faisal was ruled off Dubai in his younger days (the 1920's); Prince (later King) Khalid feared to return home after blowing big money at Monte Carlo. When I worked over there in the 8o's the scuttlebutt was that Fahd ( crown prince at the time) and ( current king, the Minister of Defense) Abdullah were blood enemies and had gone so far as to trade gunfire after a particularly boozy interlude. Rumors bloom magnificently where the truth is suppressed.
AS far as the deal with women- Arabs are the ultimate male chauvinists, take it from there.
David W| 12.10.10 @ 9:17AM
I have also read that given the Islamic separation between the sexes that there is a lot of noodling going on within the genders. Imagine if the truely faithful were to learn of the actions of the keepers of the faith. That could explain why Osama Bin Laden(?) wants to overthrow the Saudi kings.
Too Many Tims| 12.10.10 @ 9:50AM
"By their fruits ye shall know them"
Richard Baker| 12.10.10 @ 10:07AM
Thought Wahabism was the strict form of Islam?
Pete| 12.10.10 @ 11:02AM
Very few elites can resist exploiting their power like this. I'd give odds that the Mocha Messiah himself has a harem bigger than that of Slick Willy. Someone is going to write a book some day.
Nick| 12.10.10 @ 4:51PM
I might be willing to bring back the stoning of adulterers if Bubba 'the pervert' Clinton was first on the list!
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