If Yara’s hubby wants to make her feel better about her strip-searching ordeal at the hands of the Saudi Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, he’ll have to go with chocolates, because roses are out!
The same commission that arrested Yara for sitting alone with a man in a Starbucks now wants to discourage men and women from [...]
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Yara’s Valentine’s Consolation Kiboshed
Posted in Humor, The Middle East, tagged Saudi Arabia, Starbucks, Valentine's Day on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On This Day in History
Posted in Humor, The Middle East, World History on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in history, 1698, Tsar Peter the Great’s program to “westernize” Russia underwent an important “surge.” In a bid to force the nobility to abandon their eastern customs, Peter implemented a tax on beards!
Considering how well Russia’s westernization went, and considering the historical record concerning non-bearded Muslim political leaders, I don’t think this [...]
