RE: My story! I am an Ex-Muslim, became an Atheist. I was visited by an Angel of God.
May 8, 2015 at 6:50 pm
It's really kind of odd, whippings like the 17th century juxtaposed beside upscale malls in Riyadh, with segregated upper floors where rich ladies can take off their niqabs for valet shopping. A science fiction theocracy where people beam up to cities in the sky but there's a chopping block for the headsman on a plaza paved with emeralds. Do they still have that "Committee for Promoting Virtue & Preventing Vice"? 
There was a thing on women's headgear in the Telegraph with six styles from burqa (looks like beetle trundling along), to hibabs and scarfs that cover all or most of the hair, to uncovered head. Only Lebanon seemed to accept the latter, Saudis went mostly with the slitlike niqab. (At least they can see.) I dunno, that would blow my mind, but if I had grown up there it might seem more normal.
Pew survey in Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...ealed.html
I'm curious about the Burj, that hotel in Dubai that's supposed to be half a mile tall. And these palm-shaped landfills that stick out into the Gulf, with docks for the yachts behind the houses.
(You know more about safety in the Gulf sheikhdoms than I do, but do note politics can change swiftly. In the USA within my lifetime some people worried about going to jail on accusations of being Communists, and 20-year information about them could be dug up even without computer assistance. The staff on this site will probably delete your material if you ask them to, though it can stay on Google cache for a few months afterward.)
There was a thing on women's headgear in the Telegraph with six styles from burqa (looks like beetle trundling along), to hibabs and scarfs that cover all or most of the hair, to uncovered head. Only Lebanon seemed to accept the latter, Saudis went mostly with the slitlike niqab. (At least they can see.) I dunno, that would blow my mind, but if I had grown up there it might seem more normal.
Pew survey in Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...ealed.html
I'm curious about the Burj, that hotel in Dubai that's supposed to be half a mile tall. And these palm-shaped landfills that stick out into the Gulf, with docks for the yachts behind the houses.
(You know more about safety in the Gulf sheikhdoms than I do, but do note politics can change swiftly. In the USA within my lifetime some people worried about going to jail on accusations of being Communists, and 20-year information about them could be dug up even without computer assistance. The staff on this site will probably delete your material if you ask them to, though it can stay on Google cache for a few months afterward.)
