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The business of blood money
OkazWHAT happened at Al-Hamadaniya in Jeddah a couple of weeks ago was very sad. A man was stabbed to death in a street fight that driven by rage, arrogance and ignorance. It is sad because the incident terrified the residents of this beautiful city, which is full of life.It would have never happened but for tribal culture that called for collecting the blood money to spare convicted murderers from execution. This is a dark culture that promotes mass begging at public gatherings and ceremonies. This culture mitigates the atrocious behavior of killers and criminals. Once the amount of blood money is collected, the killer emerges as a hero and his tribe victorious in front of rival tribes.Before the Hamadaniya incident, many people had deplored the culture of collecting millions of riyals in...
January 31, 2019

The business of blood money

Dr. Fashionista
Al-WatanWhat do we expect from a generation that is receiving their education from a fashionista on social media, even if she holds a PhD? What are the messages that the students receive when one of their teachers publishes something inappropriate on social media or flood their accounts with crap?NEARLY a year ago, a famous actress in the US used her personal Twitter account to attack an American political figure. She used racist slurs on him. This led the TV network that aired a series featuring the actress to call off the show, which put an end to her career after decades of success.The actress and her family apologized in an attempt to save the situation, but the management of the TV channel viewed her act as crossing the red line and exposing the channel and its staff to financial and...
January 30, 2019

Dr. Fashionista

Wake up! Our children do not play anymore
OkazONE of the famous American toy companies closed down its factories recently. The owner made a brief announcement apologizing to customers for closing down the factories and not producing more toys. He said he had to stop production because the children were not playing with toys anymore.This is a very serious matter and is scary at the same time. For an international giant that was manufacturing toys on all five continents to announce that it was leaving the market means that there was something great happening.This announcement is historic and we should analyze it from a social point of view and find out what are the real reasons behind the stoppage. We need to analyze the timing in which this toy company stopped production.One of the basic elements of childhood is toys and the love...
January 29, 2019

Wake up! Our children do not play anymore

Did the campaign against male guardianship fail?
OkazI WROTE about the case of Rahaf Al-Qunun in my last article, titled “What is behind the Saudi teen’s escape?”I wrote how the case was magnified on social media in less than 48 hours of her escape and how the international media was excited about it.I wrote how difficult life would be for this girl who threw herself into the unknown by fleeing to a country and society whose culture and interests she is ignorant of.I also wrote about the difficulties the family was going through and the concerns of her parents when she broke out of the safety net provided by the family and decided to travel to an unknown world without any protection.I asked in my previous article whether Saudi girls escape from their families as a result of a foreign conspiracy or due to internal family...
January 28, 2019

Did the campaign against male guardianship fail?

Saudis stuck in debt traps
Al-MadinaSAUDI newspapers recently published a report saying that the number of requests to enforce court orders in the first quarter of the current Hijri year reached 219,476. The requests were worth a total of SR70.7 billion. This is an increase of 40 percent compared with the same period last year, when 167,607 requests were made to enforce court orders.Court orders relating to debt repayment are increasing year after year, rather month after month. These court orders consume up to 10 pages of our daily newspapers every day.This indicates that a good number of Saudi citizens are deeply in debt and in the middle of a crisis. Many of them end up in jail or a large number of them have a major portion of their salary deducted every month, leaving him and his family members to live in harsh...
January 27, 2019

Saudis stuck in debt traps

Charities can run neighborhood stores
OkazTHE Ministry of Commerce and Investment, as part of its national campaign to combat business cover-up or tasattur, is working in full gear to put an end to the phenomenon, which has harmed the national economy, exhausted our markets and put strains on our development plans.The ministry is doing a great job in educating the Saudi citizens about the social, economic and security dangers resulting from business cover-ups.Among the big problems in this fight are the small grocery stores inside the neighborhoods. All efforts of the ministry to streamline these stores are met with by the expatriate traders who control the food market and the supply chains.They work against the ministry’s efforts and prevent it from achieving the stated goals or at least slow them down.The lobby of expat...
January 24, 2019

Charities can run neighborhood stores

Expats exploiting Saudi wives
HOW to exploit your Saudi wife for financial gains? Recommendations and steps to be followed to achieve this are written and circulated through social media platforms by a number of people who have no dignity or morals.These are people of Arab nationalities and they live among us. These messages are then circulated by people who are looking for residency in the Kingdom in order to make money by exploiting Saudi women, who want to get married to foreigners. We respect all Arab and non-Arab expats who live among us, except people with such dirty minds.I mean here the non-Saudi men who are married to Saudi women. The whole idea behind their marriage is to benefit from the official and non-official privileges and facilities given to Saudi women in many areas, especially in the commercial...
January 23, 2019

Expats exploiting Saudi wives

Our children and our money
Al-Madina IF we have a chance to sit with an elder who started his business from the scratch and worked his way up, and listen to his stories of struggles in life and the great efforts he made to earn a living and to build a future for his family, we will realize that these people knew the true value of money.They struggled so much and carried out huge tasks investing their time and health to earn an honest living and to support their families.It is the responsibility of parents to educate their children about the value of money and to teach them the basics of handling money. This is not limited to the financial side alone, but on the moral and behavioral aspects as well. This way money will be in their hands and not in their hearts. Understanding the true value of money will strengthen...
January 22, 2019

Our children and our money

The prayer time dilemma
OkazRECENTLY, 11 women, seven men and five boys and a housemaid who was new convert missed the Maghreb prayer as they were standing in a long line, some of them with their children.They were waiting for the cashiers to finish their prayer, which sometimes take more than half an hour, so they could pay for their groceries and go home for prayer. By the time they reached home, the time for Maghreb was over and this why they missed it.This is a small example of what is happening daily in many commercial centers and this is what we go through each time the store closes for prayer. And this in addition to the overcrowding on the corridors and in prayer sections that are not designed in the first place for hundreds of worshippers to pray at a time.When we call for a review of the decision to...
January 21, 2019

The prayer time dilemma

Making up for lost time
OkazAS it is customary for decades, we honor people by naming streets, halls or edifices after them when they die and are no longer among us. We give medals only to people when they become extremely old and feeble.What really prevents us from naming streets, halls or monuments after our great men and women during their life time and when they are strong and capable?.Why don't we grant our great personalities the decorations and merit certificates when they are very much alive, strong and at their prime time?Because of their old age and bad health, these people are often not able to climb the platforms where the medals and decorations are distributed.If they are decorated at an early age, they will climb the platforms with all their vitality and exuberance of happiness and the spirit of...
January 21, 2019

Making up for lost time

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