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12 Oct 2010

Saudi Arabia and the "AJANIB"

you walk into a store , at the counter is the usual scene ; a saudi is busy blowing his lights out at the indian worker - why ?.. the price of the product is just not satisfactory to the Saudi customer .. hence the insult on the worker's family and origin and the constant reminder that he is " ONLY HERE TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE SAUDIS": yes master !!! .
 I'm sure that sounds a little over played to those of you who have never been to Saudi Arabia [ the HOLY COUNTRY ], but to those of us who have lived there, gone to their schools, walked their streets and went to their hospitals , its just another day of another week where we remind ourselves not only do we not have a country to go back to ; we have to give up our rights to respect and dignity if we want to stay where we are . 

The words to best describe a saudi is :IGNORANT AND ARROGANT . its as easy as that . for example  last year as i returned from somalia , i was forced to swallow my own tongue so i would not have to deal with another saudi officer . here is how it all went down .. as i made my way through the customes at jeddah international airport , the officer at the desk asked me a question in arabic  i did not hear what he said so i asked him to please repeat what he said [ let me mention i do not speak in arabic but i do very much understand it ], so he asked again and you could see he was getting annoyed. i replied in english and as i  got my passport back and made it out , he made sure i heard him say : "MANFOO7A ITDAWAARAT" [manfooha is a Somali neighbourhood in Riyadh and itdawaarat means developed] his point ? - stop trying to act all smart because you can speak english .

Ofcourse there's always two sides to every story and this one is no exception . its very much as simple as " SOMALIS NEVER FAIL TO RUIN THEIR OWN REPUTATION " . over the last few years , the number of illegal somali residents in the kingdom has just hit sky high records . Forced out of their own homes , you would think they would have the common sense to start out clean but guess again. Drug dealing , stealing , prostitution and alcohol smuggling.  You name it and we are somehow connected . the sad part is its always the legal residents who pay the price for those idiots. 
and we wonder why we are always mistreated .. 

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