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Saudis close Canadian education booths staffed by women

May 8, 2007 8:09AM PDT

TORONTO -- A Canadian embassy booth and another for a private Montreal college were shut down at a Saudi Arabia education fair last week because they were being run by women.

Organizers for the Canadian contingent say three women staffing the booths were forced to leave the fair by the country's religious police, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, even though they had received permission to be there.

George Chrysomilides, president of the Canadian Education Network, said there hasn't been an incident like this in the 10 years Canada has attended the event, and he plans to get to the bottom of it.

"From what I hear ... the religious police were very rude. They shouted at them in a way that was disrespectful and they shut down the booth, the Canadian embassy booth as well as the LaSalle College booth," Mr. Chrysomilides said in an interview yesterday.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070508.VICE08/TPStory/National

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Oh, well, the culture of the 21st Century meets...
May 8, 2007 9:14AM PDT

...the culture of the 7th Century, and the 7th Century won.

Does anyone here realize just how deadly an enemy our "friends" the Saudis are? Does anyone here realize that it is Saudi petrodollars that largely fund the Islamofascists' Fifth Column in this country in the form of the Islamic Society of North America and the Council on Islamic-American Relations? Does anyone here realize that for the most part, Islamofascism is the logical extension of Saudi Wahabbism?

Somehow, I doubt it... Sad

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read the papers listen to msn
May 8, 2007 9:17AM PDT

not a word Sad

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Don't be surprised:
May 8, 2007 9:25AM PDT

You ALWAYS say nice things about the man who has a gun to your head...

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a quick google shows
May 8, 2007 11:36PM PDT

the only mention it got was in your link....

leads me to believe that not all the facts are being given maybe?

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then you should
May 8, 2007 11:54PM PDT

contact the author, paper ect.

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and i guess more will be added
May 9, 2007 1:10PM PDT

as the bots spread the word Wink

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you seem to doubt the truth
May 9, 2007 2:06PM PDT

wonder why that is?

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and you seem unable to follow a time line
May 9, 2007 7:10PM PDT

15:09 your post (1 link)

15 hours later google shows only your original link

13 hours later diane posts links found on google

1 hour later i make a comment about bots


by the time you read this, google will have more links (bots at work, that's how it works)


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oh
May 9, 2007 10:58PM PDT

by the way you replied

it read as you were a disbeleaver

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I think that's fairly well known and understood...
May 8, 2007 10:57PM PDT

We just haven't been motivated into dealing with it seriously. The sleeping giant is not yet awake (as Yamamoto said) and filled with a terrible resolve.