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Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:23 pm Post subject:

Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud University...ummm...ROCKS! Rolling Eyes

Ow! Now, you made my eyes hurt!!! Twisted Evil

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johnslat · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:26 pm Post subject:

Dear usa_in_gulf,

Bad link

http://search3.comcast.com/?cat=dnsr&con=ds&url=www.http

I think you got it a bit backwards:

www.http://www.imamu.edu.sa

should probably be

http://www.imamu.edu.sa/sites/en/Pages/default.aspx

Yup, that works.

Regards,
John

Neil McBeath · Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 277 Location: Saudi Arabia

Cleopatra,

Why do you make the rather racist assumption that a ghost writer must be involved?

Did I make any reference to the nationality of the academic involved?

And what is your own publication record?

lazycomputerkids · Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 360 Location: Tabuk

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

I met some students there in a coffee shop in Riyadh in the mid-nineties. They were students on a scholarship from the Central Asian Republics so they'd gone there to listen to some music because it was barred on campus. One was particularly livid about the affair:"They say music's 'haram', but my father's the Gran Mufti of Kazakhastan and I work as a disc jockey at weekends."

They went to my house to listen to some more music afterwards and then we went to their university. The thing that struck me was the smell of cat piss since it seemed owning a cat was as much de riguer for the future imans as having a long beard.

Two of the students went off to fight the Russians in Chechnya. They're both probably dead, though one was so thin it would have been a miracle the bullets caught him. The other two are presumably doing fine in the religious establishment of their own countries.

Nice people, and not over impressed by their host university, though possibly years in Saudi persuaded them to see the true light :)

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

balqis · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 373

Demopheles: And what's wrong with not using the Internet in ESL?
Philalethes: If you are a friend of truth, you know that nothing is.

Greetings to all who think alike

balqis

Cleopatra · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:25 pm Post subject:

desert_traveller · Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 335

in our times, race and nationality have separated, and this separation is causing a lot of trouble for many

but anyways, making assumptions based on nationality (eg 'all italians like pizza') is not racism but discrimination on national basis, while saying that 'all black people are good athletes' is discrimination on racial basis, that is, racism. the word 'nationalism', even though formed the same way, has acquired a different, more specific meaning, tho

not that it bears any remote relevance to the topic of this thread, but i felt smart for a moment and wanted to glow a little, and i also had a bad day and need some attention from other people

can i be forgiven?

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:45 pm Post subject:

...'all black people are good athletes' is discrimination on racial basis..

But all black people ARE good athletes...

Yer point pls?

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johnslat · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:45 pm Post subject:

Dear desert_traveller,

Bravo - astute, brilliant observation (hope that helps your day a little.)

Absolvo te - go and sin no more.

Regards,
John

johnslat · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:47 pm Post subject:

Dear NCTBA,

Including this guy?

http://images.starpulse.com/pictures/2007/11/17/previews/Faizon%20Love-PRN-011671.jpg

Let me guess - he's a sumo wrestler.

Regards,
John

desert_traveller · Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 335

here's another athlete:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/63958709_c09b77ea30.jpg

and before i would have to run for cover, here's his old pal:

http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/jtb292/farts/wm-ss-fat-guy.jpg

athletes are among us

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:00 am Post subject:

johnslat · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:33 am Post subject:

Dear NCTBA,

Surely you meant "Blubber-san."

Regards,
John