Ibn Abd Al-Wahab has set back Islam advancements and hurt more Muslims than arguably anything in the last 1000 year.
Lol you are in a mood today of nagging things This a link use Google translator http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2013/03/05/269776.html
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dL_h9nx9I4s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Re-posted to embed. This one will give you a clear picture of who Exiled is. Please watch the whole video where both the Shia and Sunni speakers call out the mindset of the Wahabi movement.
Exiled - go to sleep knowing that NOT ONE of the thousands of posters on this forum agree with you on anything. We are all wrong. You are right.
Same link I sent before stated only 6 cases of under age marriage in Saudia reported. On contrary according to this study, the rate of pregnancy at the age of 15 in the US is 7.7℅ http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db136.htm
You are the most naive person in existence if you honestly believe only 6 whole women in Saudi Arabia have been impregnated before the age of 18. And if any of those men who impregnated those girls were over the age of 18 in the United States, you can bet your ass they are going to spend time in prison and then have to knock on their new neighbor's door telling them they ****ed children for the rest of their lives. Even the Saudi Minister of Justice knows there is a problem with child brides in Saudi hence why he wanted to push reform to change the age of marriage to 16. You honestly believe he would want to push this reform for 6 kids? Seriously? Are you that naive?
Guys you made your mind , so you wont bother with facts.. Sammy : I agree with Shia on one thing, Imam Ali,Hussain should had taken the khilafa, but for many other believes, I disagree. Or doest make sense to me ,I might have similar views like yours if I was in your position 47 terrorist. 46 of them were sunnies. 1 was shiea. Percentages speak of it self. It's not like Iran. A shia has better rights in Riyadh than Tahdan itself. Nemer gave many times a hate speech , one time his nephew a minor that time with rage joined other youngsters and killed a police officer. fchw# I think you are terribly misinformed . I.e you don't get approval for marriage before you pass medical exam. HIV,health,mental ,age etc are all factors. In some cases a suspected unfit person may asked to take 2 month course of marriage affair. You are also not informed on some states laws like Louisiana minors marriage. If you bothered to read the study you might find the following. Assume a high school graduation ceremony in place. In 1000 girl aged 15-17 among them: 36 pregnant 56 breast feeding 76 their babies can say their first sentence , the babies are cute but with marriage or just casual sex, not the best environment for both child By the way I received gift on last Hanaka more than eid
Its sad when news like this doesn't even surprise you. Saudi is the worst country there is...I don't think that's even debatable (had to live there for a couple of years so no I'm not just talking out of my ass.
Again, this isn't a Shia or Sunni thing. It's a civil rights issue. You can't chop people's heads off bc they stand up to the govt. At least, not in a civilized country Edit: We're seeing this all over actually. It's happening right now in Nigeria and there is no coverage of it. A massive coverup by the govt and military (mass graves) with potentially hundreds to a thousand casualties. http://www.signalng.com/sheik-el-zakzaky-arrested-by-nigerian-soldiers/ We know protesters were murdered in Egypt, Bahrain and who knows where else. The world is a messed up place.
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Seems like the Saudis airforce just bombed a rehabilitation center for the blind in Yemen. According to the latest UN report, Saudi air strikes have killed 2795 and wounded 5324 civilians in Yemen. https://news.vice.com/article/saudi-arabia-bombed-a-rehabilitation-center-for-blind-people-in-yemen
It's really the green movement that was ahead of the curve on this one. Lessen dependance on a carbon-run economy and stop funding so many of the resource-rich crazy regimes. It's not just Saudi Arabia here but the Saudis are some of the worst. Those autocratic dinosaur economies have been able to run a raft of nonsensical policies and thinking thanks to foreign oil money. There's no way they'd be able to get away with as much s**t and have a fully functioning 21st century state without it.
I don't understand what you don't understand. Ask me specific questions and I'll respond with specific answers. That said, here's the general foundation for my thinking: There's a few ways to create wealth in this crazy world of ours (not an exhaustive list): 1) extract resources 2) apply science and technology to create/democratize new innovations 3) extract wealth from others by being a service layer the first requires people willing to take as much as they can. the second and third require citizens with high education, intelligence, autonomy and determination. Intelligent people tend to agglomerate together into clustered urban economies (hence Wall Street for banking, and Silicon Valley for technology) and often have a certain culture and lifestyle they desire with plenty of political freedoms and tastes that differ from social norms (incidentally, it is no coincidence that both NY and SF have huge BDSM and non-heteronormative communities). Nobody in their right mind would want to start something truly innovative in Riyadh if they maintain their current policies/thinking/rights regime. And if it wasn't for oil money, countries like Saudi Arabia would have to choose between backwards ideas and poverty (what the regime is now calling "diversification"). The Saudi regime is buffeted by subsidies, an icky alliance with Islamic clerics, oil jobs and little else--and much of that support is enabled by foreign economies due to their very poor engineering of utter dependence on carbon resources.
