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I was asked to blog this so people could get at least a glimpse of what it is like to live under the laws of Islam.  I lived for 6 mo. in Saudi Arabia in a town located on the Red Sea called Yanbu.  My husband at the time was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and we were sent over there because they were putting in a desallination plant and needed an ASME Code Inspector for the job.  The first thing we were ordered to do by the company sending us was to read a book called The Arab Mnd so we would have an idea what to expect.  It did give us some indications, but the real thing was a hum-dinger! 


The upper arm of a woman is considered sacred; therefore, a woman must always keep her arms covered past the elbow.  It doesn't make any difference who the woman is: if you're in Saudi (or an Islamic country that follows their rigid codes) this is true for ALL women.  In Yanbu we were allowed as women to ride a bike!  We could not under any circumstance drive.  And riding a bike was a huge deal!!!  In any other city in Saudi, women were not allowed that luxury.  Perhaps it was because Yanbu was so small and the majority of people there were Americans, and we lived out away from  town in camps that we were allowed this privilege. We did not have to have our heads covered in Yanbu, but if we had visited any other city in Arabia, we would have to know ahead of time what the dress code was for women, or our husband would be arrested, and we would probably be flogged as well.  They are not nice people, and they are not forgiving people.  The same rules went for the girl children.  My daughter in 9th grade (the highest level of learning for a girl that was permissible at that time, and I am sure still is was 9th grade) Trish used to have to wear sweats during baseball, track, volley ball -  you name it - if she was outside,she was fully clothed.  [I am going over the petty things that to them are huge and will get the the major things further down.]


We had a commissary, but on Mon. Wed. and Fri. we could take a bus an go into the town of Yanbu and go to the market place and the gold suks.  I caught on very quickly having lived in France prior to living in Saudi.  Chicken at the commissary was very expensive.  At the suk in town you could buy one for 3 rials (very cheap), but you picked it out and bought it live.  They would then take the bird out of the cage, throw it into a wringer (like the old washing machine wringers) slam it shut and pull the chicken through it.  This successfully wrung its neck and plucked it at the same time; you put it into a bag and cleaned the rest of it at home.  Having had an uncle who owned a chicken farm, this was not reprehensible to me, but it sure was to a lot of Americans!  Eggs were set out in flats at the suk, and you could buy a flat for what you would pay for a dozen eggs at the commisary.  Women were appalled when I would buy a flat,and they never understood even after being told that if the stack was high, the eggs were fresh, but if they were halfway down, they were probably close to being bad!  The heat in Saudi is horrible!  I also noticed very quickly that the vendors wanted you to buy from them only, so I would give my son a list for vegetables, and my daughter a list for fruit and would send one one directon and the other the opposite.  I would then watch them very closely as they went on their buying venture.  They would both come back with fruits and vegetables becasue the vendors wanted them to taste how good their fruits or veggies as the case may be were so they would buy them too.  LOL  I didn't purchase any clothes there because you could not try them on.  OMG That a woman might step into a closed room and disrobe!  allah forbid!  No, I will not capitalize allah.


Swimming pools.  I was a lifeguard there for the pool in camp 5.  Their pools are such that they have women's pools, but for men they have a pool for boys from 8 - 18, one for single men over 18, and one for married men.  Married men are not allowed to bring their sons to their pool, and they cannot go with their  sons to the boy's pools.  Too much homosexuality!  That is a fact!  My son was nine, and he came with me to the women's pools, which would allow boys under age 8 at the women's pools.  Since there was no one to check his age and I was the lifeguard - he came with me and his sisters.


Beaches:  Yes, we lived right on the Red Sea, and it is spectacular!  The waters are pristine, and you could walk along the coral reef and see straight into the water at what was below.  However you had to constantly have a look out for the religious police patroling the water because if they caught a woman in any form of disrobement - yep - the husband would be arrested along with you!  So we waded rather than swimming.  The men:  no problem!  They could wear their swim suits!  We also caught fish from the sea and muscles, etc. 


Driving:  Women are not allowed to drive under any circumstances, but it doesn't end there.  If I were to go to the commisary with a man other than my husband and the religious police (there are no regular police - they are all religious) were to stop us, we would be beheaded because we would have committed adultery.  it is that cut and dried over there.  A woman can be with a crowd of women, or with her husband, but neve in the company of another man 'alone' for any reason.  It was indicitave that she had asked to be raped and was a wanton woman.  The same for the man committing adultery with another's wife - regardless of whether the act actually occurred or not - you were alone with him, that is the natural course of things!  (Really sick in the head these people are.)  Our daughters were warned NEVER to be caught on the bus alone.  ALWAYS have a girlfriend with you!  Well, my 9th grader accidentally found herself on a bus from camp 4 to camp 5 with the bus driver and an Arab.  The driver realizing this pulled the bus back behind the Arab apts. on camp 5 and ran off the bus!  The Arab, knowing full well Trish wanted to have sex, started toward the back to get her.  She, being a very strong gymnast, grabbed the poles on either side of the aisle, pulled her knees to her chest and kicked him so hard in the chest that she knocked him all the way back to the driver's seat.  She tnen ran to the front of the bus and proceeded to stomp the crap out of the guy, and finally ran off the bus an all the way home. 


Amusement and entertainment:  NONE!   Seriously - there are no bowling alleys, no arcades, no movie theaters, no racket ball, no tennis courts, no plays, no football teams, no baseball teams, no soccer teams, no Starbucks, no ping-pong.  Running for the kids in school was about as good as it got.  As for movies, or even TV.  The Saudi's had a fascination for The Chain Saw Massacre, and that you could get on television.  Otherwise, you went to the movie library and checked out whatever movies or TV programs Americans who had gone home had recorded and brought back with them to share through the movie library, run solely by we Americans!  However, the muzzies would come in and check things out too.  So we had to be very careful what kind of tihngs were brought back into the country.  My kids had Airplane and Space Balls memorized wowrd-for-word!


Newspapers:  We did get newspapers from abroad, but before you got them, the  "religious police" had gone through it and cut out any and all things not permissible in the country.  So if there was an ad that showed a woman's upper arm, they would cut it out.  If there was a picture of a TV or movie star, they might paint her arms and neck, but usually it was cut out, as were ads or articles that they felt were offensive.  So you might be reading an article on page 2 that was continued on page 10, and half the article would be gone because whatever was on the back of it was offensive.  Offensive means it it against the will of allah.


The will of allah:  The Koran strictly forbids homosexuality; but I can guarantee there is more homosexuality in Saudi then there is in San Francisco!  And it is open!  You would see literal lover's quarrells between the men, and watching them fight was too funny.  They wear their long white gowns, and they pick the front up with one had, and swing with the other.   Beheadings?  Yes they have them.  In fact, they are carried out in the suk (remember the market place).  The  people are roped off and they stand and watch this happen.  My two youngest went into town one day with a lady and her kids.  I was ill and couldn't go, and they were made to stand and watch a beheading!


Stealing:  Does not happen!  It is off with your 'right' hand.  The reason for the right hand is because it is your clean hand, and the left is your dirty hand (used for wiping).  


Rules of the road:  If you want to pass, just pull out and start flashing your lights!  Now this is interesting, because this very thing happened to a Brit who had just arrived in Saudi, and he was taking a cab out to the camps when a car pulled into the oncoming lane and started flashing its lights.  The cab driver threw his hands in the air and started praying.  The Brit reached over the back seat, grabbed the wheel and pulled the cab off into the desert.  The cab driver, realizing he had not met allah, turned the cab around and took the Brit back into town and had him arrested for interfering with the will of allah.


Someone in some kind of position of authority decided on day that he didn't like yellow cars, so they passed a law saying there were no yellow cars allowed in Saudi.  There was also a law in Saudi that no one could paint his car a different color.  The real snafoo came when it was discovered that EVERY emergency vehicle in Saudi was --- you guessed it --- YELLOW!


Gestures:  If a man walks past a woman who is not a Saudian woman, and not dressed in an abya, he will brush his left hand against her thigh.  This is a huge insult because 1.  It is unlawful for a man to touch a woman other than his wife, and 2.  Using the left hand is the ultmate disgrace since it is the 'wiping' hand.


There isn't even a library!!!  OMG!  That someone may read a book and discover something, or worse yet, read something even remotely ilicit - heaven forbid!  So what do you do for entertainment?  You keep it indoors.  Play cards, watch re-runs (yippee), play games.  Our favorite was dictionary because everybody from youngest to oldest could play as long as they could write.  It was such a fun game and everybody loved it. You made booze!  OH YEAH!  In the 'no liquor allowed anywhere' place, people would make their own!  God help you if you got caught, but nobody ever did - at least not while we were there.


I would recommend two books to really get to know what and how Arabs think and function.  One of course is The Arab Mind mentioned above. The second, which is exceedingly well written and objectively well done is The Islamic Anti-christ  by Joel Richardson.  At the end of his book, I think he starts to fish-tail a little bit as he seems to be drawn TO the religion rather than being distanced from it.   An excerpt from pgs 98 and 99 are as follows:  "We should not be surprised to find out, then, that after Muhammad's terrifying and violent encounter with the spirit in the cave, he believed that demons possessed him."  pg 99 says, "The reference to "poet or possessed" comes from the notion that Arabs who were contemporaries of Muhammad believed that poets created their poetry under the inspiration of demons.  At-Tabari, one of Islam's most highly respected early historians says, "The pre-Islamic Arabs believed in the demon of poetry, and they thought that a good peot was directly inspired by demons...." . . . . "But it was not only Muhammad who suspected a demonic source to his revelations; clearly many of Muhammad's contemporaries also believed that his revelatory experiences were demonic and that he was demon possessed."  Sura 44:14, Yusuf Ali : "Yet they turn away from him and say: "Tutored [by others], a man possessed!"   and Suraa 37:36; Yusuf Ali - "And say: "What!  Shall we give up our gods for the sake of a Poet possessed?"


Interesting reading folks, and a  horrible way of life!  Any questions, ask - if I know, I will be glad to tell you what I know.


Annette Schultz 

Safari Woman
Thaank YOU so much for blogging this! I find it fascinating and for once I know for sure that I can believe what I read. Thanks for the suggestions of books too! I would NOT want to go over there. Would you go again now the way things are?
  • September 22, 2014
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Alice Annette Schultz
Wild elephants couldn't drag me there. Furthermore, ISIS is very well funded - but by whom? I personally think it is by the Saudi's. They carry the same laws in their country that ISIS is insisting upon. Even now, as the worst of ISIS leaves an area and moves on, they leave behind a few to enfor...
  • September 22, 2014
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Redneck Angel Warrior
Yes Alice... the Saudi's fund all the Islamic terrorist groups, including ISIS.

They want to bring the caliphate in but to do so they must get rid of the two remaining Princes in Syria that are actually the "True Royals".

The Saudi Princes are imposters!
  • September 23, 2014
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Alice Annette Schultz
Just like 0vomit who they funded through college! makes total sense now. I did not realize that part of it. Thank you for sharing that.
  • September 23, 2014
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Wanda Hope Carter
I didn't know that either.
  • September 24, 2014
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Rocky
And I thank you also. Reading about lifestyles in the Middle East is a form of entertainment to me. It's so out of my realm as to be pure idiocy!
  • September 22, 2014
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Alice Annette Schultz
Perhaps, but they want this here too. ISIS is not sitting on our border and infiltrating us for fun and games. Further there was a reason 0vomit brought 80,000 members of Hamas here in 2010. So it may be entertainment to read about it, but envision yourself and your family being forced to comply ...
  • September 22, 2014
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Dale Barnes
I appreciate the look you have given us into life there. I can't say that I envy you to have the experience. I'm glad you and your family got out alive and that you are here to tell your story.


My wife and I have talked about what we will do if they bring this war to us. We are ready to help get our...
  • September 22, 2014
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Alice Annette Schultz
Learn about and prey on their deepest fears. They are frightened to death of pigs. Pig anything! I have told people to draw the face of a pig with a few drops of red under it, and a bullet under that! It is meant to tell them your ammo is covered with pig's blood, but bacon grease will do the sa...
  • September 22, 2014
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Redneck Angel Warrior
I'd also take a page out of Vlad the Impalers book on fighting Islamics.... cut off their heads and put them up on pikes where the others can see them!

They are very superstitious also...believing in jinns.... so anything you can do to scare the beegeegees out of them, thinking they might get possess...
  • September 23, 2014
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Alice Annette Schultz
They are frightened to death of anythihg associated with pigs. Check this out - it quelled them for about 50 yrs. We can do the same thing here! http://www.freerepublic.c... Just let the word get out that our ammo is tipped with bacon grease, and our guns are cleaned with gun cleaner containin...
  • October 7, 2014
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Rocky
I couldn't agree more. And I am so ready to die fighting this evil. I feel like I owe it to my heirs because this entire situation happened on my watch. It was, unfortunately, more important to sample free love and wear clothes that rode the butt cheeks than to notice the joke being played on soc...
  • October 8, 2014
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Sitara Singley
Rape victims are also murdered as well as little girls being mutilated.
  • October 2, 2014
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Alice Annette Schultz
Having talked to some rape counselors, they have said that the very worst cases of rape are done by Muslim men against American women. They view us as 'wanton'.
  • October 7, 2014
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Redneck Angel Warrior
Gang rapes I would presume, cuz they can't get off on just the woman...they need an audience of other men to feel masculine!
  • October 8, 2014
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