Saudi Arabia ends gender segregation in restaurants

[Deeq A.]

RIYADH: Restaurants and cafes in Saudi Arabia will no longer be required to have separate areas for families and bachelors, the Ministry of Municipalities and Rural Affairs said Sunday.

Eateries in the Kingdom have until now had to provide two entrances: one for women and families and another for single men or male groups .

The new rule is the latest step taken in Saudi Arabia to reduce gender segregation.

The ministry said on Twitter it was canceling several requirements for restaurants and kitchens including: “An entrance for bachelors (single) and a separate entrance for families.”

The ministry made the announcement among a series of rule changes affecting schools, hospitals, restaurants and wedding halls.

The mayor of Makkah, Mohammed Abdullah Al-Quwaihis , told Arab News that the move would “ease many conditions and restrictions” for restaurant owners.

“This decision will increase the flow of investment and the number and variety of restaurants,” he said.

[galbeedi]

I hope Saudi agents in Somalia would follow suit. 

Mohamed Bin Salman will get an ironclad Fatwa from his sheikhs and  everyone would probably follow. It is the only way.

We hope people will no longer be arrested in Burco or killed in Mogadishu.

Saudis should call back their agents for peace sake.

[galbeedi]

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US, Saudi Arabia try to throw off 'Wahhabi-linked' mess they created.

AYŞE BETÜL BAL@bal_betul

ISTANBUL

Published 09.12.201914:59

 

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seen behind a military band upon his arrival at Algiers International Airport on Dec. 2, 2018. (AFP Photo)

Desperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes. The phrase is thought to have originated from the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates' work, in which he said: "For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable." However, when it comes to the allies of the West, particularly U.S. allies, such "restrictions" have gained a different meaning.

When the Soviet Union threatened the world with communist expansion, the U.S. stepped up to defeat the red threat. These may have been the coldest times at home for the U.S. but they were some of the hottest times for countries like Afghanistan, used by both the Soviet Union and the U.S. to feed their conflicts via proxies.

A cloud of discontent over the arms race hung across the globe while the U.S. and the Soviet Union tried to sweep the world with their own ideologies.

The U.S. was in search of a way to prevent communist expansion, and the answer came from the country's ambassador to Moscow, George F. Kennan, who sent the famous long telegram to the U.S. secretary of state in 1946, in which he advised the U.S. government of a policy of containment for the Soviet Union. Kennan advised blocking communism anywhere on the globe. This was adopted by the government as official foreign policy.

Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 to help the communist government of the South Asian country, whose population was majority Muslim and anti-communist. This is the point at which the U.S. intervened, not directly but rather through allies, namely Saudi Arabia and its so called-Islamic expansionist ideology known as Wahhabism, in a bid to contain the Russians.

In an interview with the Washington Post in 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said, "The Saudi-funded spread of Wahhabism began as a result of Western countries asking Riyadh to help counter the Soviet Union during the Cold War," making a historic confession of the relationship between the U.S. and the West with a sect widely accused of being a source of global terrorism.

Links between West, Wahhabism

Wahhabism, which is a relatively modern sect that came into being within Islam as a mixture of the heretical movement Mujassimah – or anthropomorphism, which is the belief that God is similar to humans – and the Khawarij sect, was the U.S.' desperate measure against Soviet expansion. The links between the West and Wahhabism, in reality, go further back in history. Before the U.S. inherited control of the ideology, it came from the United Kingdom. Britain was the first superpower to use the ideology as a political tool when they saw the opportunity to divide the Ottoman Empire through revolts by the Wahhabi-led Arabic population in the Hejaz region.

"The British followed this new sect from the very beginning, which they saw as an opportunity to break Arabia from the Ottoman Empire. They established contact with the Wahhabis and provided financial support," said Mehmet Hasan Bulut, a Turkish researcher and a writer, noting that after World War I, the Brits handed over the Wahhabi ideology to the U.S.

"Wahhabism was spreading, of course, but with the support of the United States, rather than Saudi Arabia's efforts," he said.

Similar to Bulut's statements, Ekrem Buğra Ekinci, a Turkish academician, said that the Wahhabi ideology, which used violence in the early days of its establishment, was transformed into an intellectual and missionary structure with the efforts of King Faisal and Saudi Arabia started to spend millions of dollars each year to establish dominance over poor Muslim communities, especially those that recently gained independence, with the claim of "bringing Islam back to its origin."

Speaking of the expansion of Wahhabism in those countries, including Afghanistan, Ali Tüfekçi, a researcher and a writer, said: "Wahhabi propaganda was spread through books, magazines, newspapers, educational institutions and many other publications with the support of the U.S. from the beginning of the Cold War. This was a means of the American Cold War, a set for the fight against Communism, and for the Saudis it served the goal of becoming a leader by shaping the Islamic world."

The Sunni Muslim belief, which is mistakenly considered the source of Wahhabism, is divided into different internal sects, namely the Hanafi, Hanbali, Maliki and Shafi'i, all of which are considered legitimate in Islamic law as their differences occur in their religious practice, not in beliefs. Wahhabism, on the other hand, which has seriously been affected by the "Khawarij" sect, claims to "purify Islam." The word Khawarij in Arabic literally means "exclude," abiding by the sect's acts such as labeling those who do not comply with their belief as "infidels."

When it comes to reality, Wahhabism has almost nothing to do with Islam, but it rather paved the way for the modernization of Islam, ironically with a very radical, regressive and incorrect interpretation of the religion against the traditional Muslim beliefs, in line with both serving the U.S.' purposes of containing the Soviets in Muslim-majority countries, and Saudi Arabia's ambitions to hold and most importantly keep the leading position in the Muslim world.

Establishing of radical terror groups

The ideology of Wahhabism, by its very nature, led to the modification of Islamic belief and traditions, as it opened a way for individual interpretations of the religion while excluding some of the very fundamentals of the Islamic belief system. The individual interpretations, then, of course, led to the radical understandings and applications that have been linked to the establishment of terrorist organizations, now and then.

"This ideological infrastructure had a serious impact on radical terror organizations that were established in the Middle East, under the pretext of a struggle for independence and freedom." Ekinci asserted.

Similarly, Tüfekçi noted: "Many terrorist organizations, especially al-Qaida and the Taliban, have been established on this basis," adding that the U.S. was openly supporting the formation of an anti-communist bloc against the Soviet Union while Wahhabism's understanding of war-based rebellion and takfir (declaring someone an unbeliever) was spreading under the name of jihad."

The U.S. then tried to pull out from the mess it initially created with the Soviets and Saudi ideology, and those ideologically-based militants once dubbed freedom fighters became terrorists against whom the Americans needed some other paramilitary groups.

The U.S. trained thousands of militants in the region, some of whom are still waging a war against suspected Taliban-linked terrorists, as Washington tries to end its longest-ever war in Afghanistan by initiating peace talks with the Taliban.

The paramilitary groups trained, sponsored and equipped by the CIA, especially along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, mostly target civilians and are occasionally covered by the international media. No one can entirely be sure whether U.S.-Taliban peace talks will see desired results. If they do, those paramilitary groups will likely be hesitant to abandon their fight and lay down arms, as it has not been happening easily with other allies of the U.S., despite having different ideologies.

[galbeedi]

I discussed in these pages how extremists were used by foreign intelligence to further their agenda. In this terror organizations the wild dog Wahabis are the best targets to deploy and use destroy their own people.

For example in Pakistan , a foreign intelligence --it could be Indian or others--will gather a group of WAhabi radicals  in a camp and call them Jeishul Islam or Muhajiruun or any of those names. They will be instructed to liberate the land from the infidels occupying  Afghanistan By Jihaad. But the caveat is that they will be convinced that in order to achieve  that mission, they must first destroy the security forces and the government of Pakistan which is helping the occupants.

Before these will dogs wage any wars to liberate Afghanistan, they start destroying their own nation of Pakistan by targeting police stations, airports, bus stations  and military posts. With unlimited cash and weapons they became a destructive force with no end.

The result is a nation weakened by terror from inside and aggression from outside. THat is exactly what Al-shabaab is doing. 100% of these groups are Wahabis and naive converts.

 

 

[Dhaqaale]

Everybody has a choice in life, ignorance is no excuse, the Arabs and their European allies do not mean black Africans well. This is evidence from the last 150 years. Somalis are black Africa in so far as the continents diverse gene pool. So why would you expect Muslim Arabs to treat you any different than other black skin Africans. See what is happening in Libya. The Arabs started slavery against the black skinned race before the european.

Did you know that in the 1900s they use to showcase Somalis in human zoos? Have ever seen a European in a human zoo in Africa?

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

KID somalis are not black get that  through your skull. 

[Dhaqaale]

2 hours ago, Xaaji Xunjuf said:

KID somalis are not black get that  through your skull. 

I am not a kid, get that through your head.

[Old_Observer]

On 12/10/2019 at 8:11 AM, Xaaji Xunjuf said:

somalis are not black

wow

 

[galbeedi]

On 12/10/2019 at 6:11 AM, Xaaji Xunjuf said:

somalis are not black

Guys , here in the west , we are black. In fact , they divide people either white,  black or Asian. Even the fat Arabs are categorized as coloured.

Anyway, the main issue here is that the culture is more important and lasting than the skin color. In that sense, I concur with Xaaji that we are not black Africans culturally.

We are different from the Southern Zulus, the east African Swahili or the Nigerian Yoruba. Certainly we are different from Lebanese, Syrian and Egyptians, as well as the Indians. WE might look similar to the stinking Ahmar , but certainly we are more freedom loving and roaming the land. We are the Irish of the dark continent.

Folks, we are a unique raise called Somali

OO, have you read our poems?

Socdaalkaygu waa meel

Sahaydaydu waa dacar

soohdintaydu waa caan

Seeftaydu waa cudur

 

[maakhiri1]

It may be too late  for Somalis, they are too brainwashed and radicalized,  40 years of being fed this extreme  crazy wahabism, and as Saudis abandon,  Somalis are still slaughtered each other under this doctrine .

Just watch how Abdishakur was on Friday topic  in every mosque in Somalia

Plus SAUDIS can reform as they have powerful central command!

AYAX tag Eelna reeb

[Old_Observer]

22 hours ago, galbeedi said:

 

Folks, we are a unique raise called Somali

OO, have you read our poems?

Socdaalkaygu waa meel

Sahaydaydu waa dacar

soohdintaydu waa caan

Seeftaydu waa cudur

 

 

Thanks.

That is why the Nomad knows how to deal with victories and failures or defeats. Some societies get defeated and loose their language, culture, faith..easily. The nomad culture can survive and recover even after century of colonialism.

BTW the second line is used as a wisdom expression, which means I can live anywhere, fight anywhere, survive anywhere. Of course, except some deserts where it gets covered with fresh sand dunes all the time.