A campaign on Facebook is calling for Saudi men to beat women who plan to drive cars in a protest next month, AFP reports.
"The Iqal Campaign: June 17 for preventing women from driving" advocates a cord be used to beat women who plan to drive. Women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia.
Some 6,000 people have "liked" the campaign on Facebook.
There is no written Saudi law banning women from driving, only fatwas, or religious edicts, by senior clerics that are enforced by police.
King Abdullah has promised reforms in the past and has taken some tentative steps to ease restrictions on women. But the Saudi monarchy relies on Wahhabi clerics to give religious legitimacy to its rule and is deeply reluctant to defy their entrenched power. Translation: scared and spineless
"Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan," Athar reported. "There goes the neighborhood."
A computer programmer, startled by a helicopter clattering above his quiet Pakistani town in the early hours of the morning Monday, did what any social-media addict would do: he began sending messages to the social networking site Twitter.
With his tweets, 33-year-old Sohaib Athar, who moved to the sleepy town of Abbottabad to escape the big city, became in his own words "the guy who liveblogged the Usama raid without knowing it."
And a Salute to the Navy SEALS for getting the job done.
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In Los Angeles, police were stepping up intelligence monitoring, and New Yorkers will see extra police at their airports, bridges and the World Trade Center site itself.
Al Qaeda is patient though. They will wait until we have forgotten, as we always do.
The executives bashed conservatives to a group they thought were going to donate money to NPR, saying Tea Parties were "white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it’s scary. They’re seriously racist, racist people."
While making sure to highlight how awesome liberals are, "In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives."
“The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian – I wouldn’t even call it Christian. It’s this weird evangelical kind of move,” declared Schiller, the head of NPR’s nonprofit foundation, who last week announced his departure for the Aspen Institute.
So he is just being transferred to another location to spew his own hatred and stupidity.
In the UK, a mother was looking for a farm set to buy for her daughter’s first birthday. What she found was one that did contain a cow, sheep, chicken, horse and dog, but the pig sty was empty – even though there was a button that made an “oink” noise.
What? No accommodation for Hindus who might find a farm cow offensive?
When the mother named only as Caroline complained, she was told in an email the pig had been removed in case it upset Muslim or Jewish parents.
Eating pork is banned in both religions because pigs are considered unclean.
Don't bring in the Jews into this, who have never complained about such stupid things. No, it is the Muslims again making trouble and stupid (greedy) people who kiss their asses.
Look at that bastard. He enjoys the privileges of the country he lives in and yet spews hatred against it.
On this day of remembrance today when we give honor to all who have serve and still do today….
Britons must defend their brave soldiers from the hatred of the Muslims that have invaded their country. Yes, invaded. Their chants of “British soldiers burn in hell” and banners saying “Islam will dominate” and “Our dead are in paradise, your dead are in hell.”
They call themselves Muslims Against Crusades. What year are we in? OK, if they want to go there, let us recall real history here. The Crusades were a reaction to previous and continuous 600 years of Muslim invasions of Europe. It was Charles Martel (Charlemagne's grandfather) who is remembered for finally throwing them out of France. Spain was not so lucky and had to endure a 700-year occupation.