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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=132367&d=4&m=2&y=2010&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom

freesoul · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:12 am Post subject:

Children of �Hajj Over-stayers� in Hijaz Region ( Makka, Madina, Jeddah and some in Taif) is the sad forgotten side of the story. Guess what! No one cared, cares or will care to address the issue, simply because they are not Saudis.
For those of you who lived- or are still living- in Makka or Jeddah, have you even noticed the children with missing limbs!! Have you thought how many times you have seen the same!! Have you even thought that there is a typical pattern in the shape of the deformity? Which makes me suspect that what one of my Saudi students in Jeddah told me once that these poor little children�s hands or legs were systematically and deliberately amputated, so that they will be prepared for the begging industry. YES! It is a fully-fledged industry in Jeddah and Makka, with gangs and area lords.
Next time when you stop on the traffic light in Jeddah, look around and see.

doner · Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 179

area lords Very Happy

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

This is sadly a system not restricted to any one part of the world... since time immemorial...

VS

trapezius · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:42 pm Post subject:

It is always the 'foreigners' in SA causing mischief and breaking laws!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

There is always a foreigner to blame for any problem in KSA.

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

The Lathe of Heaven · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:20 am Post subject: Re: Recycling

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

It WAS a link to a story in the "Green Truth" about children recycling garbage. Now when you click on it you are taken to the current issue. Enjoy.
Reading it this way saves you 2 SR a day or 60 SR a month. You are now on the path to membership of the Fellowship of Five Hundred.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I searched the archives and found this

http://archive.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=132367&d=4&m=2&y=2010

johnslat · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 4:59 pm Post subject:

Dear scot47,

That's just recycled news.

Speaking of conservation, why spend 2 SR when you can get the paper (which one colleague of mine fondly referred to as "The Arab Snooze") online? Of course, then you can't do the crossword too easily.

Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

My neighbour - now retired to Manchester, England, - used to rummage through the rubbish to recycle my old copies of the "Arabsnooze".

And he was one of those who used to make remarks about "mean Scotsmen" !

johnslat · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:22 pm Post subject:

Dear scot47,

There are some who seem to find comfort in blinding themselves to their own faults by pretending to see those same, repugnant defects in others.

Not ME, of course.

Regards,
John