Thursday, December 2, 2010
Football: Iraq vs Kuwait
I'm having to watch the game it's just about to start. Hope Kuwait wins. C'mon lads make my husband a happy man..OMG it's been on a minute and Kuwait scored woohoo!!
It's on KTV 3.
It's 2-2 and gone into extra time. The Iraqis are fouling quite a bit and are a tough team. C'mon Kuwait!
After 112 minutes still 2-2 and I really have to go get a shower for the club tonight. I know the minute I go out of the room someone (hopefully Kuwait) will score.
Penalties arghhhh!!This is so exciting! And oh no! And yessssssss... Kuwait won woohoo!
It's on KTV 3.
It's 2-2 and gone into extra time. The Iraqis are fouling quite a bit and are a tough team. C'mon Kuwait!
After 112 minutes still 2-2 and I really have to go get a shower for the club tonight. I know the minute I go out of the room someone (hopefully Kuwait) will score.
Penalties arghhhh!!This is so exciting! And oh no! And yessssssss... Kuwait won woohoo!
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
'No Need' For Women to Cover up in Saudi Says Saudi Religious Police Commander
Source [link]
JEDDAH - A Saudi religious police commander criticised the kingdom's ban on gender mixing on Tuesday and said women did not have to veil their faces to applause from his female audience.
Sheikh Ahmed al-Ghamdi, outspoken head of the Mecca branch of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also said there was nothing in Islam to prevent women from driving, despite the Saudi ban on the practice.
"There is a difference in interpretation of the (Koranic) verse which leads some scholars to rule that the whole body must be covered. However other scholars approve showing the face, hands and elbows. And some even okayed the hair," he said.
He said the kingdom's mixing ban should be applied only to men and women meeting in secret, not in public places -- a rule normally enforced by the religious police.
Islam "orders a woman to cover her body to allow her to participate in social life, not to prevent her from doing so," he said.
The women in the audience, all clad in the all-black shroud-like abaya they must wear, broke out in applause.
Ghamdi, who was mysteriously fired and reinstated in April after breaking ranks with the religious police to endorse mixing, was speaking at a conference on "Women's Participation in National Development", where the hot issue was the barriers posed by Saudi Arabia's ultra-strict ban on women working.
Because Saudi women are not permitted to mix with unrelated men, must have a male guardian and are not permitted to drive, there are huge limitations on their employment opportunities.
Recently, top religious officials strongly objected to a labour ministry effort to allow Saudi women to work as cashiers in supermarkets.
Labour Minister Adel Fakieh said on Tuesday that 200,000 women in the kingdom, or 44 percent of the workforce, were unemployed, and that of them 157,000 had degrees above the level of high school.
"The unemployed women are educated above high school, while unemployed men mostly don't have degrees," he said.
Meanhwile, the country's sole female minister, Deputy Education Minister Noura al-Fayez, also came in for criticism for not having achieved much in terms of women's educational advancement and opportunities.
She urged the audience of Saudi women to have patience, and told them she could do little about certain issues, like the high accident rate for rural women teachers who must travel great distances to work because they are not permitted to live away from their families.
On Monday, King Abdullah's daughter Princess Adela bint Abdullah said a greater effort was needed to provide jobs for Saudi women.
"Women's participation (in the workforce) is behind expectation. A society cannot walk with a limping leg," she said.
LWDLIK- Wow! Didn't see that one coming.
JEDDAH - A Saudi religious police commander criticised the kingdom's ban on gender mixing on Tuesday and said women did not have to veil their faces to applause from his female audience.
Sheikh Ahmed al-Ghamdi, outspoken head of the Mecca branch of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also said there was nothing in Islam to prevent women from driving, despite the Saudi ban on the practice.
"There is a difference in interpretation of the (Koranic) verse which leads some scholars to rule that the whole body must be covered. However other scholars approve showing the face, hands and elbows. And some even okayed the hair," he said.
He said the kingdom's mixing ban should be applied only to men and women meeting in secret, not in public places -- a rule normally enforced by the religious police.
Islam "orders a woman to cover her body to allow her to participate in social life, not to prevent her from doing so," he said.
The women in the audience, all clad in the all-black shroud-like abaya they must wear, broke out in applause.
Ghamdi, who was mysteriously fired and reinstated in April after breaking ranks with the religious police to endorse mixing, was speaking at a conference on "Women's Participation in National Development", where the hot issue was the barriers posed by Saudi Arabia's ultra-strict ban on women working.
Because Saudi women are not permitted to mix with unrelated men, must have a male guardian and are not permitted to drive, there are huge limitations on their employment opportunities.
Recently, top religious officials strongly objected to a labour ministry effort to allow Saudi women to work as cashiers in supermarkets.
Labour Minister Adel Fakieh said on Tuesday that 200,000 women in the kingdom, or 44 percent of the workforce, were unemployed, and that of them 157,000 had degrees above the level of high school.
"The unemployed women are educated above high school, while unemployed men mostly don't have degrees," he said.
Meanhwile, the country's sole female minister, Deputy Education Minister Noura al-Fayez, also came in for criticism for not having achieved much in terms of women's educational advancement and opportunities.
She urged the audience of Saudi women to have patience, and told them she could do little about certain issues, like the high accident rate for rural women teachers who must travel great distances to work because they are not permitted to live away from their families.
On Monday, King Abdullah's daughter Princess Adela bint Abdullah said a greater effort was needed to provide jobs for Saudi women.
"Women's participation (in the workforce) is behind expectation. A society cannot walk with a limping leg," she said.
LWDLIK- Wow! Didn't see that one coming.
What Do You Think of WikiLeaks?
You've got to start reading some of the Wikileaks available in every newspaper. Personally I'm loving it (lot of people are not and are squirming a little) But should wikileaks be banned from public viewing? Hmmm..
In a delightful twist, a British military manual - the Defence Manual of Security, or Joint Services Protocol 440 (JSP440) - specifically dealing with how best to avoid leaks was leaked onto the site in October last year. It warned that the Chinese "[have] a voracious appetite for all kinds of information; political, military, commercial, scientific and technical" and that spying is no longer like "the novels of John Le Carre". Journalists are listed in the document as one of the "threats" to security, alongside foreign intelligence services, criminals, terrorist groups and disaffected staff. In an even more self-referential moment, a Pentagon document naming Wikileaks itself as a threat to national security was leaked - to Wikileaks.
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