Stories from Saudi Arabia - Your views

[MultaniGuy]

When I was living in Saudi Arabia till the age of 18, some Western expatriates felt afraid of living
in Saudi Arabia. This is what Pakistanis told me living in the GCC countries.

They felt afraid because of the cultural reasons.

Anyways your views?

 

[Madni Bappa]

They're even scared of Turkey man. Wherever theres maaazlums they're scared. They're still stuck in orientalism.

 

[MultaniGuy]

They're even scared of Turkey man. Wherever theres maaazlums they're scared. They're still stuck in orientalism.

Yeah but I do have certain vivid memories. Usually the Western expatriates do not venture outside their gated compounds.

In Aramco camps its completely different though.

 

[jamahir]

One story I remember from when I was lot young was of a girls hostel that was burning and the girls running out to save themselves. The muttawain ( the Saudi "religious" police ) came by and being what they are ( anti-human self ) they didn't attempt to douse the fire but instead ordered the girls to go into the burning building and come out only after wearing an abaya ( I think that's what they call the burqa there ). Some girls died in that unnecessary attempt, some were injured.

Saudia seems to be changing now. Mixed gender university ( at least one - the KAUST ), allowing mixed gender restaurants. Such other things I suppose. Though the monarchy of the Saud family also has to dissolve and there should be real democracy like was present in pre-2011 Libya and is there in Venezuela now.

 

[_NOBODY_]

One story I remember from when I was lot young was of a girls hostel that was burning and the girls running out to save themselves. The muttawain ( the Saudi "religious" police ) came by and being what they are ( anti-human self ) they didn't attempt to douse the fire but instead ordered the girls to go into the burning building and come out only after wearing an abaya ( I think that's what they call the burqa there ). Some girls died in that unnecessary attempt, some were injured.

Saudia seems to be changing now. Mixed gender university ( at least one - the KAUST ), allowing mixed gender restaurants. Such other things I suppose. Though the monarchy of the Saud family also has to dissolve and there should be real democracy like was present in pre-2011 Libya and is there in Venezuela now.

That religious police is gone now, these muttawas were a bunch of retards. In 2014 I saw the Government taking action against these muttawas and started putting them behind bars. These muttawas used to harass women at every opportunity they got. By the way, this so called religious police had nothing to do with religion, what these muttawas used to do was against our beautiful religion.

 

[jamahir]

That religious police is gone now, these muttawas were a bunch of retards. In 2014 I saw the Government taking action against these muttawas and started putting them behind bars. These muttawas used to harass women at every opportunity they got.

Good they got punished.

By the way, this so called religious police had nothing to do with religion, what these muttawas used to do was against our beautiful religion.

That's why I put the word religious in quotes.

 

[MultaniGuy]

Yeah there is another story:

In the Dhahran High School, or Dhahran American school one of the American teachers started shouting that "Saudi Arabia is over there, that is Saudi Arabia, and in the American consulate, he said this is America." Then he calmed down.

Kind of unprofessional to behave like that in front of students.

Sometimes the teachers were being dishonest with giving out grades or they sneered at the students' names.

One story I remember from when I was lot young was of a girls hostel that was burning and the girls running out to save themselves. The muttawain ( the Saudi "religious" police ) came by and being what they are ( anti-human self ) they didn't attempt to douse the fire but instead ordered the girls to go into the burning building and come out only after wearing an abaya ( I think that's what they call the burqa there ). Some girls died in that unnecessary attempt, some were injured.

Saudia seems to be changing now. Mixed gender university ( at least one - the KAUST ), allowing mixed gender restaurants. Such other things I suppose. Though the monarchy of the Saud family also has to dissolve and there should be real democracy like was present in pre-2011 Libya and is there in Venezuela now.

Yeah I have heard good things about that prestigious university called KAUST.