Saudis campaign to be seen as vacation hot spot

Poor King Abdullah...a pipe dream. This is absurd. Saudi Arabia as a tourist attraction.....yea right. Just wonder if Chop Chop Square will be on the tourist itinerary.

Yeah let's party like it's 1399!!!

It's not going to happen until they get realistic about visa restrictions. I'd check it out but getting a visa is a major pain in the you know where.

I want to see the Kabbah

Saudi Arabia as a tourist desitnation?? You gotta be kidding me! Women are treated worse than camels. I can't imagine my wife having to dress like a ghost with her head and face covered as to not offend her "hosts". Chriatians couldn't go to church on Sundays and Jews are not even allowed to enter that racist apartheid nation.

I'll book two weeks in HELL before I'd consider going to a place like Saudi Arabia.

reem wrote:

you are the poor because you do not know any thing about my country
we have very nice placec and friendly people
in saudi arabia you can find the most beautiful deserts and mountains and seas

What's a matter? don't make enough cash on the oil?? Don't have enough victums to kidnap?? Trying to cleanse the inbred blood lines??
Saudi Arabia as a vacation spot?? for who.. terrorists, wife beaters, sterilization doctors, land mine sweepers... who??
I think vacationing in the green zone of Iraq would be safer.

Oh boy, I can't wait to tell my wife that we're going to a really hot place and she has to cover her head so she doesn't offend MEN.

I can't wait to arrive at a toruist destination that has institutionalized racism and religious intolerance. Sounds like fun!
Sorry dear, you're not allowed to drive a car...the Saudis are so understanding when it comes to women's rights.

Then after a full day in the hot sun, with my wife sweating like a camel, we can go out for a drink and get arrested by the religious police.

Party like it's 1399...Now that's a good one!!

reem wrote:

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iam saudi woman and i am not treated like camels iam humanbein and i take all my rights here yes iam wearing hijab because i want that and iam like man in study and work
iam graduated from college this semester and i will get job very soon
and for your information there are alot of non muslim women live in saudia arabia and they did not cover their faces because they are not muslims an we can not force them to do that
and also there are saudi women did not cover their faces they just wearing the normal hijab and who cover their faces they do so because they want to do that
is it clear now?

You are trying real hard, aren't you? Forget it, Saudi Arabia will never become a tourist attraction, trust me. Not ever.

3) "We women are vassals, and the walls of our prisons are inescapable, for this grotesque disease of preeminence lives in the sperm of all men and is passed along, generation to generation - a deadly, incurable disease whose host is male and victim is female." page 120

http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/prince...

reem wrote:

here an article about the achievements of saudi women
http://www.topix.net/forum/world/saudi-arabia...

IF you are a woman in Saudi Arabia, which I don't believe, but if you are, I feel pity for you. We can't control where we are born, you have my sympathy.

reem wrote:

here an article about the achievements of saudi women
http://www.topix.net/forum/world/saudi-arabia...

That wonderful REEM...what kind of car do you drive?

How many Christians and Jews do you know?

Can you do anything without your husband's approval?

Are your asian "guest" workers permitted to leave your home?

Ben Franklin wrote:

Yeah let's party like it's 1399!!!

ROFLMAO

I lived in Saudi Arabia for five years.......I am an American woman. If I didn't cover my face in certain souks I was smacked on the leg with a stick by a muttawa. I would even have my hair covered and would be wearing my abaya and I would be with my husband. You are right, woman can drive in the small villages but not in the cities with the men.

I agree with you that there are many beautiful places in the desert but the treatment of women and the "hired help" is ludicrous.

I can't imagine anyone desiring to go to Saudi Arabia for a holiday....for an education on how repressive some people in the world have to live, perhaps.

reem wrote:

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1- saudi women drive cars in villages , but to me i don`t because i have special driver like princess
2-i know lot people because we have christians and jews arab and non arab and also we have people follow another religion and they enjoy their live in saudi arabia
3- iam not married and if i married i will share my husband in every thing as well as he wiil share me in every thing
4- my asian "guest" workers is human bein and i treat here like my sister and we go to shopping and to every where

reem wrote:

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1- saudi women drive cars in villages , but to me i don`t because i have special driver like princess
2-i know lot people because we have christians and jews arab and non arab and also we have people follow another religion and they enjoy their live in saudi arabia
3- iam not married and if i married i will share my husband in every thing as well as he wiil share me in every thing
4- my asian "guest" workers is human bein and i treat here like my sister and we go to shopping and to every where

Jews are not allowed in Saudi Arabia. Non Muslims are not welcomed and take a great risk to enter. I know plenty of people that have served there in the armed forces. There are many Saudi woman that have escaped that life and written books.

You sure are working hard to defeat that horrible image, hope you are getting paid well for it.

Sharon Walker wrote:

I lived in Saudi Arabia for five years.......I am an American woman. If I didn't cover my face in certain souks I was smacked on the leg with a stick by a muttawa. I would even have my hair covered and would be wearing my abaya and I would be with my husband. You are right, woman can drive in the small villages but not in the cities with the men.
I agree with you that there are many beautiful places in the desert but the treatment of women and the "hired help" is ludicrous.
I can't imagine anyone desiring to go to Saudi Arabia for a holiday....for an education on how repressive some people in the world have to live, perhaps. <quoted text>

" If I didn't cover my face in certain souks I was smacked on the leg with a stick by a muttawa."

This is where I would have grabbed his stick and broke it over his head.

You are one brave gal. I lived in Tripoli Libya years ago and loved it.

reem wrote:

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i sayed that there are arab jews and non arab (if they are not Israeli people) they are allowed to enter to saudi arabia
and non muslims are welcome
for your information i study sociology and i know my society well so i just tell you about the right image about my society and i don`t want anybody to pay to me because i love my country more than my self

Maybe but thier entry is almost always on a work related visa. With all due respect reem you make it sound as though getting a Saudi visa is unrestricted which just isn't true. Even if you are a Moslem and want to make the Haj there are restrictions simply based on which Moslem country you're from. Try being a Shia Persian and get a visa for Haj. Those Haj numbers are much more limited as opposed to if you are Sunni/Wahabbi.

The fact is until Saudi elitism and selectivity is removed from the visa issuance process, tourism will never flourish there because it's massivly prejudicial.

Following the lead of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the US government has decided to open Guantanamo Bay, Camp Delta to tourism. A spokesperson for the US Government stated: "If people think Suadi Arabia is fun, just wait until they get to our little corner of Cuba." Palm trees, beaches but no deserts.

Tourists are required to wear orange pajamas. Each member of the family is given his or her own room. Three meals are served daily. If you are a moslem tourist, particularly from Saudi Arabia, you will be given a prayer rug and Hallal meals for your enjoymnet.
You will feel right at home if you are a woman! You can't do anything without permission from your "guard". You will not be allowed to drive a car, drink alcohol or speak unless spoken to!
Have fun!!

reem wrote:

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palestenians are from palestine not from egypt or lebanon or jordan and they are very peaceful people their houses destroyed and their children killed and they want to live in their country in peace without israel terrorist

reem, palestininans cannot be from palestine, as there is no such place in history as palestine. palestine comes from the word philistine, the last known ancestory of said people.

Otter wrote:

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reem, palestininans cannot be from palestine, as there is no such place in history as palestine. palestine comes from the word philistine, the last known ancestory of said people.

"Palestinians" are from:
Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, UAE. Kiwait, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia etc.

Most arrived in the region looking for work, after the Zionists turned the swamps and deserts into productive land.

Reem i would suggest you to take your driver( special like princes ) and go on a ride with him to different places and this time try to see the real saudi arabia.
The self assumed achivers would be every where to be seen.
If you are really a girl i would like you to focus real hard when you are bringing up ur son. Try ur best to make him act like a MAN not another camel.
One thing Saudi Arabia SUX.....big time.

reem will not be responding to you as she has been punished for using the computer machine.

All of You go to Hell

I toured Saudi Arabia a few years back. Absolutely fascinating place. The hotels are five star and there's a lot to see.