[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhbHVEGnYD8[/youtube]
I really don’t find the words! This is how we promote tolerance, peace, inter-faith, build a democracy: by well educating the future generation …
EDUCATING??? Pleeeease! This is just pure bleeding brainwashing!!
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I do believe that this is brainwashing! She’s 3.5 years old for God’s sake! She knows NOTHING, it’s just words crammed into her head!
The woman asking the questions says we should teach kids how to be good Muslims and who their enemies are. Why would you have enemies that young?
One can only hope that when she grows up she’ll learn to think for herself, and not pass the same garbage on to the next generations.
The television program is from Saudi Arabia. THis is a country that also gives cruel and unusual punishments for trivial acts. It is not a democracy and oppresses its women, men, religious minorities and gays. Human Rights activists always remind us of the Human rights violations of Saudia Arabia, yet I never hear them give the actions to improve things in Saudi Arabia.
THe United States should place sanctions against Saudi Arabia; it should stop accepting the hundreds of billions of dollars of investment money from Saudia Arabia. This website and all others who are concerned about the rights of Saudi citizens should place a banners on their websites demanding that Western countries stop accepting Saudi investment money.
I don’t expect this to happen any time soon. Talk is cheap. NO one wants to give up their comfortable lifestyles for the sake of improving the the human rights of peole in another country.
“This website and all others who are concerned about the rights of Saudi citizens should place a banners on their websites demanding that Western countries stop accepting Saudi investment money.”
And then you say “Talk is cheap. No one wants to give up their comfortable lifestyles for the sake of improving the the human rights of peole in another country.”
So help (pressure) can come from outside oppressive governments but those who do it must sacrifice short-term financial interests? And you think democracy and human rights in Saudi Arabia is not a direct and important enough ’cause’ for the US nor for any other Western country’s foreign policy, even after 9/11 and the subsequent bomb threats and terrorist actions throughout Europe?
lamer,
I did not say it was not worth it? I am asking why are people not bringing it up. People will bring up Saudi Arabia’s human rights violation but they do not say what actions should be taken.
Even before 9/11, the United States should have stopped accepting the hundreds of billonsof dollars of investment money from the Saudis because of its atrocious human rights records. But that’s easier said than done.
It is not in the interests of the United States to make Saudi Arabia a democracy, otherwise the people would demand that the money be invested in the Muslim world instead of the United States.
RandallJones Says:”It is not in the interests of the United States to make Saudi Arabia a democracy, otherwise the people would demand that the money be invested in the Muslim world instead of the United States.”
I am not even going to bother to ask you why you think that. But instead I’ll ask what the evidence is? If people want to waste their money they can pour it into the desert, but most of the world wants to invest in the US because the returns are so good. America is a rich developed advanced country. This is why the Chinese, Japanese, South Koreans and all the Gulf Arabs like to invest their money there. There is no reason whatsoever to think that would change if Saudi Arabia were democratic.
HeiGou,
The United States buys more oil from Canada and Mexico than it does from Saudi Arabia. Yet Canda and Mexico (both democracies) do not invest as much money into the UNited States as Saudi Arabia.
Actually, HeiGou, Randall makes a good point. I’m sure a big factor in US relations with Saudi Arabia is the knowledge of what kind of government would result from popular elections.
Could we get some opinions from folks actually there on the ground? If the royal family were to step aside and hand power over to an elected President and Parliament, what sort of government could we expect?