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On Aug 10, 2:24 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *Modern Madness: Saudi Arabia Building Women-Only Cities* > Thursday, August 09, 2012 – by Staff Report > > Prince Turki Al Faisal**** > > *Saudi-Modon plans to establish women-only industrial cities ... Efforts > are under way to establish the Kingdom's first women-only industrial city > in the Eastern Province city of Hofuf. Saudi Industrial Property Authority > (Modon) has initiated works for planning and development of the city. "We > are now working on a second industrial city for women," said Saleh > Al-Rasheed, acting director general of Modon. "We have plans to establish a > number of women-only industries in various parts of the Kingdom," he added. > Al-Rasheed said Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs Prince Mansour bin > Miteb, has already allocated land for the first women-only industrial city > in Hofuf. – Arab News***** > > *Dominant Social Theme:* Ain't Saudi Arabia grand? Its Saud sheiks are > building entire same-sex cities to advance women's liberation – Middle > Eastern style!**** > > *Free-Market Analysis:* We read this article with growing disbelief. What > kind of sick society builds separate CITIES for women?**** > > Well ... the Saudis do.**** > > But really, it ISN'T the Saudis. It's another group entirely. But first, > more on this insane development.**** > > The article explains – in its frighteningly chipper way – that moves to > build cities just for women follows a Cabinet decision that "urged > authorities to create more job opportunities for women in order for them to > play an important role in the Kingdom's development."**** > > Actually, we are sure it has to do with the Saud family's determination to > continue to enforce the tenets of Wahabbism – a mutated "fundamentalist" > version of Islam that deprives women of even the right to drive a car and > can impose terrible mutilation on them for minor infractions. Here's some > more:**** > > *The Cabinet also instructed the relevant ministry to allocate lands ... to > establish industrial projects for women ... Modon seeks to allocate land > for industrial development and develop industrial cities in collaboration > with a number of government agencies and the private sector to meet the > requirements of investors.***** > > *Al-Rasheed highlighted Saudi women's ability to engage in various > industrial activities, adding that the development of women-only industrial > cities would help tap their energy to boost national development.***** > > *"I am sure that women can demonstrate their efficiency in many light and > clean industrial sectors that suit their interests, nature and > capabilities," the Modon chief said. The industrial cities now comprise > factories owned by women as well as companies with some production lines > set aside for women ...***** > > Sound dynamic? Obviously Modon wants to be perceived as an enlightened > agency. It's certainly a big and powerful one. From the article, we learn > it was established in 2001, and that it is "responsible for the development > and management of industrial cities."**** > > Currently, Modon "supervises" 29 cities across Saudi Arabia, though > apparently these are not same sex cities. During the next five years, the > Saudis intend to build 40 industrial cities occupying 160 million square > meters, the article informs us.**** > > Wow. We don't know what is madder, this continued sickness of planned > industrial development or the added fillip of creating such cities for > individual genders. Saudi Arabia is apparently creating its city > infrastructure via a series of five-year plans. This is, of course, typical > authoritarian planning. And Saudi Arabia is nothing if not authoritarian.*** > * > > When the Saud secret police arrest individuals – especially for security > purposes – they usually try to arrest members of the individual's family > and friends on the theory that the suspect has corrupted others.**** > > Saudi Arabia has dozens of new prisons where prisoners are kept in high > style, able to eat from tempting menus and watch TV programs of their > choosing. But they are still in prison, and often they remain there for > years without even being charged.**** > > The larger issue that Saudi Arabia is grappling with is the growing > paranoia of the ruling Saud family, a family that is in aggregate worth > trillions.**** > > The riches come from a deal that the Saud family made basically at gunpoint > with the US, to trade oil only for dollars. This took place in 1971 and > cemented both the abrogation of the gold standard and the creation of the > dollar-reserve currency.**** > > The deal the Saud family made was far larger than just an economic one, > however. The Western power elite behind it pretty much endorsed the Saud's > larger power structure, including its mad Wahhabi reign.**** > > It is this fundamentalist Wahhabism that Saudi Arabia is busily exporting > around the Middle East. Of course, one can argue legitimately that the > Western powers-that-be were quite happy to introduce Wahhabism to a wider > Middle East audience.**** > > No doubt, the dynastic families that want to run the world found it quite > convenient. Wahhabism is an extremely fundamentalist sect and therefore > contributes to the polarization of Islamic society generally. The elites, > doing everything within their power to encourage a wider (phony) "war on > terror," surely have no compunction about supporting Saudi authoritarianism > and the Saud family's very own crazy religion.**** > > And thus it is that one can argue the Americans and British are behind the > dissemination of extremist Wahhabism in all its intolerance and brutality. > Yes, it is always thus. Money Power controls both sides of any conflict.**** > > While making noises about liberating women in the Middle East and Africa, > Western elites continue to prop up the Saud reign and its Wahhabi state > religion. And now the Saud family, driven mad by money it never made and > doesn't deserve, has begun building vast same-sex cities so men and women > will not have to consort.**** > > This is truly the kind of psychopathology that can emerge only after > societies have been corrupted for decades, for centuries. Unfortunately for > Saudi citizens, their society has indeed been under attack for that long.*** > * > > It is a mad policy, a mad society and a mad world. It cannot end soon > enough ... And it will end. The impossibly wealthy and corrupt Saud family > will likely find the 21st century a good deal less forgiving than the 20th. > When their reign does end, Western support shall likely be exposed for all > to see.**** > > *Conclusion:* There are few if any secrets left in the Internet era.**** > > **** > > **** > > From: > > http://thedailybell.com/4167/Modern-Madness-Saudi-Arabia-Building-Wom... > **** -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
