11/30/2007 Entry: "Saudi Arabia is a little silly"

We had a bomb threat today. Someone scribbled "The bomb set to go 11/20" on one of the women's bathroom walls yesterday. That made a phone call go out to all the parents last night. Then today someone added 11:35 to the graffiti. That caused us to go into lockdown for an hour while they searched the school. Wow. After words any "traumatized" students were allowed to leave - so 3/4 of the school went home at 3rd period. It was an easy day after that.

Y'all remember what bomb threats were like at CF? We all went outside for about 1/2 hour. (yes, OUTSIDE, where we are much less likely to get BLOWN THE FUCK UP if there actually was a bomb.) After that 1/2 hour (if it ever really was that long) we went back in and nothing happened. None of this getting out school early crap. People called in bomb threats about 3-5 times a year to get out of tests and things like that. Nowadays all they have to do is write it on a wall and they get out of an entire day. Kids these days have it easy. Although they did announce a $200 reward for info. That kid is gonna get fucked.

In other news, Saudi Arabia is a little silly. No doubt you have all heard the news about the Saudi rape victim having her sentence upped from 90 lashes (for being raped) to 200 lashes (for talking to the media about the case.) Supposedly the 90 lashes aren't direct punishment for being raped by the 7 guys, but instead punishment for getting into the car with one of them - since he was neither a relative or her husband. It's worth noting the Saudi women are far more oppressed than the women in "Mega-Evil" Iran. Not that I particularly like Iran or their crazy, nutso, "voted most likely to cause WWIII" leader. My point instead is that perhaps maybe we should like Saudi "home of the 9-11 terrorists" Arabia a little bit less.

Worth Quoting from the above link:

The westernised lifestyles that were available to some Iranian women were lost with the Islamic Revolution of 1979. But even the most radical clerics realised that Iran's culture would not stand the strictures imposed in such countries as Saudi Arabia. As Nikki R Keddie has observed: "More than many women in the Islamic world, Iranian women occupy public spaces. Even as wives and mothers, they work, vote, drive, shop and hold professional positions as doctors, lawyers, corporate executives, and deputies in Parliament."