FASCISM, APARTHEID - THE 'ISLAMIC' WAY
Saudi Stormtrooper | 27.02.2004 21:41
Visas will not be issued for Jews. Why doesn't Israel have a similar ban on Muslims? Where is the international condemnation of Saudi fascism?
The sun and sand are guaranteed, but Club 18-30 devotees should think twice before stripping off on the beach or canoodling under the palm trees. There's no vino to slake the throats of lobster-coloured visitors, and those with a taste for wacky baccy risk getting their heads chopped off.
Saudi Arabia, normally a byword for stern and puritanical sobriety, is preparing to show the world its jollier side by issuing visas to tourists. At present they are issued only for employment, pilgrimages and other approved visits, and can be difficult to obtain.
Tourist visas will be introduced within a few weeks, officials quoted by the daily Arab News in Jeddah said.
Tourism accounts for about 9% of Saudi Arabia's GDP, but the tourists are mainly Saudis themselves.The plan to market the kingdom to foreigners is intended to create 1.5 million-2.3 million jobs by 2020.
Construction of the Prince Sultan College for tourist and hotel management began in 2001, and there are plans for 50,000 new hotel rooms.
Besides deserts and oases, Saudi Arabia has mountain ranges, several national parks and 2.7 million hectares (6.7 million acres) of forest. The Red Sea coast is one of the best places in the world for scuba diving, and bungee jumping is also said to be popular.
Plans for a timeshare complex in Mecca, with views of the Grand Mosque, were announced last year, though the city is closed to non-Muslims.
The British government continues to advise against all but essential travel to Saudi Arabia, after suicide bombings last year, and some Saudis doubt that the country is ready to cope with foreign tourists.
In December, a Briton and an American were arrested after taking diving lessons in the Red Sea, apparently suspected of planning to attack shipping.
The supreme commission for tourism's website lists those who will not be allowed in: Jews; people with Israeli stamps in their passport; "those who don't abide by the Saudi traditions concerning appearance and behaviour", and "those under the influence of alcohol".
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The page has been hidden by the Saudi neo-nazis authorities, but the page is still in Google's cache, with the URL to demonstrate the source:
http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:IERUoQYboT8J:www.sauditourism.gov.sa/sct/indexlist.php%3Fcatid%3D39%26maincat%3DTravel_Tips%20&hl=en&start=1&ie=UTF-8
Saudi Arabia, normally a byword for stern and puritanical sobriety, is preparing to show the world its jollier side by issuing visas to tourists. At present they are issued only for employment, pilgrimages and other approved visits, and can be difficult to obtain.
Tourist visas will be introduced within a few weeks, officials quoted by the daily Arab News in Jeddah said.
Tourism accounts for about 9% of Saudi Arabia's GDP, but the tourists are mainly Saudis themselves.The plan to market the kingdom to foreigners is intended to create 1.5 million-2.3 million jobs by 2020.
Construction of the Prince Sultan College for tourist and hotel management began in 2001, and there are plans for 50,000 new hotel rooms.
Besides deserts and oases, Saudi Arabia has mountain ranges, several national parks and 2.7 million hectares (6.7 million acres) of forest. The Red Sea coast is one of the best places in the world for scuba diving, and bungee jumping is also said to be popular.
Plans for a timeshare complex in Mecca, with views of the Grand Mosque, were announced last year, though the city is closed to non-Muslims.
The British government continues to advise against all but essential travel to Saudi Arabia, after suicide bombings last year, and some Saudis doubt that the country is ready to cope with foreign tourists.
In December, a Briton and an American were arrested after taking diving lessons in the Red Sea, apparently suspected of planning to attack shipping.
The supreme commission for tourism's website lists those who will not be allowed in: Jews; people with Israeli stamps in their passport; "those who don't abide by the Saudi traditions concerning appearance and behaviour", and "those under the influence of alcohol".
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The page has been hidden by the Saudi neo-nazis authorities, but the page is still in Google's cache, with the URL to demonstrate the source:
http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:IERUoQYboT8J:www.sauditourism.gov.sa/sct/indexlist.php%3Fcatid%3D39%26maincat%3DTravel_Tips%20&hl=en&start=1&ie=UTF-8
Saudi Stormtrooper
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27.02.2004 21:59
Just to confirm that this is genuinely google.
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which all goes to show
27.02.2004 22:18
this is also where the sept 11 attackers came from and ought to have been the first
port of call for the avenging US army.
There is a secular resistance in Saudi that deserves support but gets
none from the west because they
are leftists by US ideological standards and even if thousands of Americans have
to die the US govt. won't support leftists.
The US need the anti-semitic undemocratic despotic Saudi regime
as an example of Moslem otherness so that they can justify support
for Israeli genocidal behaviour against Palestinians and Israels imperial
aggression across the arab world, where the abuse of Islam by elites
is actually less obvious than in Saudi.
The US supported the Muslim brotherhood against the secular
pan-arab socialist movement during the cold war and the Israeli govt supported
the openly anti-semitic HAMAS when it formed as a way of undermining the secular
marxist PLO in the 1980s. Both countries have reaped what they have planted.
To try and paint all Arabs or Moslems with the extreme culture of
the kingdom of Saudi is grossly misleading.
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actually
27.02.2004 22:26
Zionists are really running out of lies to spin.
dony
What rubbish
28.02.2004 00:22
Joe
Feeble criticism of this post
28.02.2004 01:26
As for Israelis being allowed into Saudi - arf! One single Israeli stamp in your passport automatically bars you from Saudi and many many other Arab states.
Saudi Stormtrooper
erm..
28.02.2004 03:08
Anyway going back to the subject at hand, I clearly saw a Jewish woman getting a visa given to her at the Saudi embassy in London. The woman herself even loudly exclaimed "i've been to israel, will I have problems at the airport?", to which the Saudi man at the desk replied "no, you are welcome", which sort of negates the whole anti-muslim propaganda of this thread.
Americans do not write what religion they are on their passports, so how could Saudis discriminate against American jews?
dony
Saudi facism and Israeli facism two sides of same coin
28.02.2004 11:02
On the other hand, you have Israel, funded by the US, committing apartheid and killing the Palestinian people. But both these countries, Israel and Saudi, are part of the axis of imperialism, with the US as the centre of the axis.
Hermes
Triple post... you're really keen on digging this hole for yourself
28.02.2004 11:09
Saudi policy: special people only, kuffars not welcome
And moaning about Israel is not valid way to excuse a country of human rights abuses.
Saudi Stormtrooper
the truth
28.02.2004 13:00
Yes, Mecca in Arabia should remain a place of woship for Muslims only. Why would non-Muslims want to go there anyway apart from obviously for nefarious reasons? The rest of Saudi Arabia is open to people of all religions which I've seen with my own eyes.
On the other hand, The zionists have a whole state setup with laws for Jews only- Jews only settlements, Jews can only buy land, Jews can only use certain roads etc. If you want to fight racism, start with israel and its US funded apartheid system.
dony
More proof of Saudi gov's official policy of Jew hatred
28.02.2004 13:08
Jews barred, says Saudi government website
dony tells porkies