From: osamakl@iastate.edu (Osama Al-Shaykh-Yousef)
Subject: Re: Fair is fair: Jordan
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 03:20:38 GMT

In <nabeel.718659524@oracle.sce.carleton.ca> nabeel@sce.carleton.ca (Bulbul) writes:

>   One of the most infamous Jordanian scandals is the Raheejeh
>Scandal which every Jordanian knows. This scandal involved many
>Jordanian ministers and VIPs and nothing could be legally held
>against the Elite as usual. This scandal involved a connection
>where they deflowered Jordan University girls and sent them to
>Britain to be 'reflowered.'
>   Comments: This scandal makes the Jordanian Elite stand side by
>side with the Saudi Elite, but as usual most Saudis do not know
>that some Brits make a living from reflowering Saudi 'virgins.'
>In fact, the competition among the Arab Elite made Jordan pay
>high because its resources (if any) can not support such 
>behaviour of the high class unlike the case in SA.

>   Now look at Beards International Jordan! I will tell only one
>beardtime story. There was this Islamist member of Parliament 
>whose name is Muhammad Alawneh. A few years back, he was a 
>religious guy leading prayers and Friday speeches. Once he was 
>addressing the Friday prayers while the king was in SA making the 
>minor pilgrimage (Omra), Alawneh said, he is spinning around the 
>Kaaba while his blood is uncleaner than pigs' -- meaning the 
>king. Later he was elected as an Islamist Deputy and then later 
>became the minister of Agriculture -- he has nothing to do with
>agriculture or anything else for that matter. He spent his time
>with short-skirted Queen Noor touring chicken ranches and he
>became a docile cat. Typical of Beards International!

How did tou come with this??
First, Alawneh is known to own farms and to work with agriculture 
all his life. Second, when he was a minister most of the country
recognized his work. He was so active. He did an arguable dicision
that he allows black goats to get into young forests. Other than
that he and the others in that cabinet (the majority in the parliment)
did something most Jordanians recognized.

>   A friend's wife had a miscarriage and went to a hospital. She
>cried in pain, the humanitarian doctor shouted, "Shut up or I
>will ram my shoe down your throat."
>   Another friend of mine had a hernia surgery. The let them
>stay only one night in hospital and expelled him so that his
>medical insurance won't have to pay for his stay in hospital.

>   Those stories are endless. Those doctors are not high class.
>If they went to any other government establishment they would
>be also treated like dirt; this is the Jordanian public. I do
>not even think such disgrace happens in the uncivilized states
>of the Gulf. That shows how much more uncivilized we are.

BTW, Jordan is recognized in the middle east for medicine. It is
very rare to see this. I think this is very rare and personal. 
My experience is much much differnet.

>   In Jordan, if your father is/was not a minister and your
>grandfather did not help Britain conquer the Muslim Empire and
>enslave Jordanians, you will be treated as an average
>citizen -- like dirt!
>   Most Arab countries fought Britain or France, Jordan is the
>only Arab country (that I know) which did not fight for freedom 
>but fought alongside colonisation. It runs in the blood, "yobeh!"

!!!!!!

>   "Wa maa 'obarri'o nafsee inna nnafsa la'ammuuraton bissoo'i
>illaa maa ra*hima rabbee, 'inna rabbee *gufooron ra*heem." 12:53.

>** -  'Ana mowaa*tin.
>   -  (*Tezz.)
>   -  'Allee *tezz!!!???
>                          -- From Duraid Lahham's Kasak Ya Watan
>** - Hal 'araak? Fee ^olaak?
>     Tablo*go ssimaak, tablo*go ssimaak
>     Maw*tinee, maw*tinee?
>   - *Tab^an laa wlaah! 'Ablo*go ssimaak a^mil shoo bhalbard
>     wallaa biddak yaani y*seebni mozannaab?
>   - !!!???

biladi win jarat 'alay 'azizaton
               wa ahli wa in Danno 'alay kiramu

Law kanat bard bidi mawtini yablo*go ssimaak wi ysibni muzanab wala
aDalni taHt alaKdam wi y*sebni alTeen we BS.

>   "A *haraamon ^alaa balaabilihi ddaw*ho
>      *halaalon li*ttayri min kolli jinsee?"
>                                -- Ahmad Shawqi
WaTani law Shu*giltu bil b'ud anhu
           Naza'tni ilayhi bil Khuldi nafsi
                                  -- Ahmad Shawki

_Osama K. Al-Shaykh
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