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Is Nancy Pelosi politically incorrect?
Thestandard wisdom is that revolutions eat their own children. Driven by social media, political correctness has stormed popular opinion, with allegations of all types of misbehavior dragged up from the distant past. Reputations and careers have been ruined, lives wrecked, or indeed lost through suicide. The consequences of this public shaming have been devastating.These social media memes have mostly been generated by liberal or ultraliberal groups. They produce tidal waves of posts condemning, often in the most vicious terms, anyone who voices views contrary to their own. Thus a respected professor such as the clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson of Toronto University in Canada has become a figure of demented hatred because he criticized small but extremely vocal groups promoting ideas...
April 04, 2019

Is Nancy Pelosi politically incorrect?

Abdo Khal
Dying for a football team
OkazAFTER each crucial football match, we hear about victims who suffered because of the outcome. Sometimes people lose their life because of their intense emotions.The cases of heart attacks and fans fainting in football stadiums during and after matches need immediate attention. Take for example, the latest match between Riyadh rivals Al-Nasr and Al-Hilal. Al-Nasr won the match 3-2 and temporarily took the top position in the league standings, sending Hilal to the second place.A large number of ambulances were seen at the entrances of the stadium dealing with the cases of fans who suffered health problems during and after the match. One Hilal fan died because of shock and sorrow after Al-Nasr scored the winning goal in the last minutes of the match.The Jedda-based Al-Ahli Club announced...
April 04, 2019

Dying for a football team

Abdullah Al-Jamili
Compulsory enlistment
Al-MadinaAMOUNG us there is a group of young men that we are proud of. Though I like to write about the initiatives being carried out by our youth, here I will dwell upon something more important.We are proud of the youth’s contributions to serve their religion, country and society in many fields, especially through social and voluntary programs.At the same time, there are other segments that are engrossed in city life and its luxuries. This largely affected their personalities to the extent that their character became so delicate. They lead a spoiled life, which is evident from the way they dress and their strange hairstyles.This has also affected the way they speak so much so that we cannot differentiate between the males and females among them.As for their daily activities, they spend...
April 04, 2019

Compulsory enlistment

Giving away something that isn’t yours
United States President Donald Trump recently issued a decree recognizing Israel’s right to annex the Golan Heights, which it seized from Syria during the war of aggression against three Arab states – Egypt, Jordan and Syria - in 1967. This is in flagrant violation of international laws as well as the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly and all international laws and conventions that prohibit the occupation of the territories of others by force.Earlier, Trump recognized Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Israel in defiance of all international charters and laws, hurting the sentiments of Muslims who consider Jerusalem as the first Qibla in whose direction they once faced while offering their prayers. Jerusalem is a blessed holy land not only for...
April 03, 2019

Giving away something that isn’t yours

Ibrahim Ali Naseeb
Public safety must be traffic department’s top priority
Al-MadinahThe video of Saudi student Tahani Almanea in an American traffic court where she appeared in front of a judge for parking violations provided many positive pictures. One was the safety of the traffic system and the judge’s leniency, while another was the appearance of Tahani who was calm and smiling while explaining to the judge in an honest way the reason she committed these violations.This motivated me to write to our traffic department saying that I hoped that they would be on the side of the people and at the same time enforce their authority in a way that protects the safety of the public and holds reckless drivers accountable in court and revokes their licenses. The most important thing here is the safety of people.However, our traffic department fines people, then...
April 03, 2019

Public safety must be traffic department’s top priority

When the lights are turned off
You are in a department store or a restaurant when suddenly you find yourself amidst lights being dimmed and shutters being drawn. Left to grope for an exit and safety in the near dark, you notice that you are not alone. Other patrons are fumbling about towards the lit exterior, some with small children or bags of purchases.If you are on the second or third floor of a commercial establishment, you quickly find that the escalators have been turned off. To navigate yourself in the dark, you may wish you were slightly more athletic. Sales attendants walk past you and whisper in menacing tones, “Salaat, Salaat” meaning that it is time for prayers or the unspoken term: Get out! But the first call for prayers hasn’t even begun!The Ministry of Commerce should really look into this...
April 03, 2019

When the lights are turned off

Business as usual for Erdogan
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose to make Sunday’s municipal elections a vote of confidence in his 16 years of rule. In the view of some commentators, he has suffered an humiliating defeat, losing control of the capital Ankara and apparently also of Istanbul, the country’s commercial and cultural hub.The result in Istanbul is being disputed by his Justice and Development Party (AKP) which has referred the count to the Supreme Election Board. According to the official figures, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate Ekrem Imamoglu scraped a win by 25,000 votes. However, AKP organizers protest there were over 300,000 spoilt ballot papers and are, therefore, demanding a recount.Two factors stand out in this vote. With his nationalist ally the MHP, Erdogan’s...
April 03, 2019

Business as usual for Erdogan

hamoud abu_taleb
An agent’s escape
OkazQATARI Emir Tamim Bin Hamad was the star of the day last Sunday on the occasion of the Arab summit, which took place in Tunisia. He stole the spotlight not because of his useless presence, but because of his escape from the opening session of the summit as the entire world watched.Tamim escaped from the session and headed straight to the airport. No one cared about his presence except the president of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Ennahda movement who rushed after him to the airport trying to convince him to come back. The Arab summit went on smoothly, as if Tamim wasn’t there in the first place.Tamim escaped from the summit after the speeches by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi and the Secretary-General of the Arab League who condemned...
April 03, 2019

An agent’s escape

Ibrahim Ali Naseeb
Water bills again
Al-MadinaI AM used to writing about people’s sufferings in this column. This time I will write about an unbelievable story of a man in Madinah who received an exorbitant bill from the National Water Company.This old man lives in a small villa with his wife. Last November, he received a water bill for SR6,234. He almost fainted. When He went to the company and complained. The same month, he received an adjusted bill of SR399. The old man paid the bill and the company thanked him for the payment.In February this year, he received a bill for SR6,437. Again he went to the company to complain and he was issued an adjusted bill of SR205. He paid the bill and the company thanked him for the payment. On March 2, he received a bill for SR396. On the 21st of the same month, he received another...
April 03, 2019

Water bills again

The Arab Summit: How to cure our ills?
During an Israeli terrorist operation in Gaza in 2002, an American politician asked me: “If we were to stand by the aspirations of the Arab people and provided future generations with democracy, freedom and development, would you forget about our support for Israel and accept us as true friends?”At the time, statistics where showing that most Arabs believed that the US and Israel were their worst enemies. Anger was growing and demonstrations were filling the streets of Arab capitals against both states. The US government seemed worried about its “destructive” project of “creative chaos” to remake the Arab world into a safer neighborhood for the Zionist state and friendlier to America.I told him: “If you had a toothache, would you be able to concentrate on a food menu, no...
April 02, 2019

The Arab Summit: How to cure our ills?

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