A Sense Of humour InThe Land Of Darkness

Right: Jacko Bahrain.

I stumbled on a defunct site once run by a Saudi National, this was his last post, April 2004.

Temporary Lull

Folks, maybe it's a result of that last terrorist attack, maybe it's just me being paranoid, but i'm seeing a lot more "unusual activity" both out in the town and in the neighborhood. I'm going to lie low. The blog and my email contacts will hibernate for a while. Better safe than sorry. In the meantime, many thanks for your compliments, observations, questions, discussions. Ma'a salaama.

Saudi or not he was a true blogger in every sense of the word, and given his attacks on the Saudi establishment, a brave bloggger at that.
Again, Saudi or not, he certainly has a sense of humour, and here I hope I have the right tense and he hasn't fallen into the clutches of the forces of darkness.
So I shall be lifting stuff direct from his blog and posting it here.

MADINAH, 14 April 2004 — Police in Madinah arrested an 18-year-old man in woman’s dress including a veil in a Madinah shopping center. Al-Madinah reported that people noticed strange movements and felt the person was not walking like a woman. His arms were also noticed to be hairy. People said the person was following women and annoying them. The police were called and they arrested the man saying that he might be mentally ill

The thing about wearing an abaya and a veil, it could be anybody in there. It could be Hulk Hogan. It could be Osama Bin Laden. It could be Clyde, the Orang Utang. Just don't show your hairy arms.

As for the man's mental health, I agree. Any Saudi man who would rather be treated like a Saudi woman, is by definition nuts. Emphasis mine.