Lecturer is suspended for playing violin in girls’ class
mainPrince Mohammed University, one of the largest private colleges in Saudi Arabia, has suspended a foreign teacher after he played the violin in front of a class of young women. The matter came to light when a student posted a video of the performance on Youtube.
Dr Eisa Al Ansari, the rector, said the action was contrary to tradition and Ministry of Education regulations.
Saudi Arabia is an elightened member of the United Nations council for human rights.
“Dr Eisa Al Ansari, the rector, said the action was contrary to tradition and Ministry of Education regulations.”
Does somebody have a written set of those traditions at hand for our enlightenment?
I thought in Saudi-Arabia they only have the rule that you can not fiddle with the instruments of your mother, daughter or sister, but that fiddling with first cousins already is fine.
Nothing but a bunch of backwards tribesmen sitting on oil money. Oh, and they so love driving around London in their Ferraris with their Brit girlfriends.
Thank you for bringing this to light and the suitably laconic tone.
Was Dr Eisa Al Ansari afraid the girls were going to wet their panties?
What a sad comment on a supposedly enlightened nation.
Did anybody ever claim that Saudi-Arabia is an enlightened nation?
That would be news to me. They are one of the most backward nations on earth, even among the Islamic fractions is Wahhabism, the branch of Islam the Saudis follow, considered ultraconservative and backward.
Irony, I hope.
Could you please explain which part of Peter’s comment you hope to be ironic?
Wasn’t replying to Peter.
Look again.
… a prime example of the hypocrisy, weakness and cowardice of the United Nations that allows this “enlightened” country to be on its human rights council, which no doubt would embrace other “enlightened” countries like China, with its “enlightened” conduct in Tibet, (and which recently gave their equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize to the “enlightened”, peace-loving, great humanitarian Robert Mugabe…
United Nations: HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAME!