It's A Small World And It Smells Funny
Posted: 13 Dec 2006, 19:20
Having spent the better part of three weeks in Bahrain, I have to confess there are things that still make little or no sense. How can a country hold a so-called democratic election that places the opposition party in power but retain the same prime minister? Strange but true, as he appears to have been in the job for over two decades and is the wealthiest man on the island on account of the fact that he controls the oil revenues. I just hope Blair doesn’t get any ideas.
Also read an interesting article in the press about a new car sales room in Saudi Arabia staffed solely by women to serve women. It might sound reasonable enough in a Muslim country until you learn that although Saudi women are allowed to buy/own a car they are not allowed to drive one! Come look at the cars, talk about them, get advice, but you’ve no chance of a test drive!
Other weirdness includes the construction of a World Trade Centre. Any one else find the building of knew set of twin towers in the Persian Gulf somehow ironic?
It’s also become clear that the War On Terror will not be won by bullets, bombs and young soldiers bleeding their last in some foreign field. It will be by a process of assimilation, judging by the huge American style malls: M&S, Debenhams, Radio Shack and a Big Mac.
Most unlikely named burger chain? “Fuddruckers�.
Then there was a shop named “Fatima Bint something or other…�
Also read an interesting article in the press about a new car sales room in Saudi Arabia staffed solely by women to serve women. It might sound reasonable enough in a Muslim country until you learn that although Saudi women are allowed to buy/own a car they are not allowed to drive one! Come look at the cars, talk about them, get advice, but you’ve no chance of a test drive!
Other weirdness includes the construction of a World Trade Centre. Any one else find the building of knew set of twin towers in the Persian Gulf somehow ironic?
It’s also become clear that the War On Terror will not be won by bullets, bombs and young soldiers bleeding their last in some foreign field. It will be by a process of assimilation, judging by the huge American style malls: M&S, Debenhams, Radio Shack and a Big Mac.
Most unlikely named burger chain? “Fuddruckers�.
Then there was a shop named “Fatima Bint something or other…�
