Saudi questions students going overseas
Maha Al-Hujailan, Al-Watan, a reporter with Arab News, raises some issues about sending teenagers overseas for education.
One of the bad habits that our students take with them when they go abroad is the culture of sexual harassment. They cannot take this culture to America. American woman can easily report sexual harassment to authorities. Saudis that engage in sexual harassment can end up arrested, charged, jailed, and deported. In this system that often sides with the woman in sexual harassment cases, what do you think happens when the accused is an Arab?Good question but a better one is why not educate your youth to respect woman and law to start with.
Furthermore, Saudi students will face a justice system that doesn’t recognize the Saudi practice of “wasta? (connections with higher ups that can get you out of trouble with the law). And what about the Saudi way of driving? With highly organized and patrolled traffic systems in America, and the West in general, I do not think Saudi students would last very long on their roads.Well, now that you have admitted the Kingdom is failing Saudi youth what about addressing these problems. It’s not as if the law of western societies is all that radical.
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“They do not stand in line, and they are incapable of answering questions effectively. Some of our students even lie in their responses and are proud of it. These students, used to lying to officials in the Kingdom, can fall easily to American justice when they lie or provide false information to US officials.”
They haven’t learnt the subtle art of lying yet and won’t stand in line. We should start an orientation course on lining up and
taqquiya before we let them into the country. No problems then.
I would have thought locking up a man for 5 years for guarding a Tailiban tank is radical !
Only if you think you are privy to the US case and that is all it is and even then that puts him firmly in the enemy camp and it is then reasonable to incarcerate him until hostilities cease. You might not like it John but that is what happens in the big bad world. It is not a lawyers picnic.
Was he a terrorist when fighting for the KLA, defending muslims against Serbs ??
Dosan
Kosovo isn’t as black ‘n’ white as you probably think. Nether side was innocent.
Seems like its black and white for David Hicks though ? So Gary. If an Aussie soldier had been captured would the Taliban be entitled to hold them for 5 years. Lets avoid the emotive response like “…well the Tailiban would have slit their throats”…. too predictable
“Seems like its black and white for David Hicks though ?”
and?
“So Gary. If an Aussie soldier had been captured would the Taliban be entitled to hold them for 5 years.”
Yes
John, its not ’emotive’, its factual – how many PWs have the Taliban taken?
If you don’t like the facts, you don’t get to just write them off as ’emotive’.
Re Hicks, he chose to fight beside monsters (the side he joined are mass murderers who specialise in the oppression of women) – now he has to pay the price.