Not really. I have been to SA before on exercises. I had a pretty good idea of the country before I turned down the job offer.Actually, you missed a novel experience indeed.
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Not really. I have been to SA before on exercises. I had a pretty good idea of the country before I turned down the job offer.Actually, you missed a novel experience indeed.
After I got out of the USAF back in '92, I got a job offer as a supervisor for a PMEL shop in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government would pay for my apartment, a Merc that I could upgrade every two yrs, and my salary in U$ would be tax free. I turned it down even after three raised salary offers. What a country...![]()
If they mistook, they did it with good intentions.People mistakenly think "Fatwa = Law". Anyways, reading the Twitter handle for this was of the funniest things I did yesterday. Clerics never stop embarrassing themselves, as a result people more and more are becoming de illusioneed with the religious.
After I got out of the USAF back in '92, I got a job offer as a supervisor for a PMEL shop in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government would pay for my apartment, a Merc that I could upgrade every two yrs, and my salary in U$ would be tax free. I turned it down even after three raised salary offers. What a country...![]()


Saudi cleric issues fatwa on snowmen
Religious leader forbids building of anti-Islamic idols that might resemble human beings, after winter storm in north of country
The building of snowmen has been forbidden by a top Saudi cleric. Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP
Reuters in Dubai
A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has whipped up controversy by issuing a religious edict forbidding the building of snowmen, describing them as anti-Islamic.
Asked on a religious website if it was permissible for fathers to build snowmen for their children after a snowstorm in the country’s north, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid replied: “It is not permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play and fun.”
Quoting from Muslim scholars, Munajjid argued that to build a snowman was to create an image of a human being, an action considered sinful under the kingdom’s strict interpretation of Sunni Islam.
“God has given people space to make whatever they want which does not have a soul, including trees, ships, fruits, buildings and so on,” he wrote in his ruling.
That provoked swift responses from Twitter users writing in Arabic and identifying themselves with Arab names.
“They are afraid for their faith of everything ... sick minds,” one Twitter user wrote.
Another posted a photo of a man in formal Arab garb holding the arm of a “snow bride” wearing a bra and lipstick. “The reason for the ban is fear of sedition,” he wrote.
A third said the country was plagued by two types of people: “A people looking for a fatwa [religious ruling] for everything in their lives, and a cleric who wants to interfere in everything in the lives of others through a fatwa.”
Munajjid had some supporters however. “It (building snowmen) is imitating the infidels, it promotes lustiness and eroticism,” one wrote. “May God preserve the scholars, for they enjoy sharp vision and recognise matters that even Satan does not think about.”
Snow has covered upland areas of Tabuk province near Saudi Arabia’s border with Jordan for the third consecutive year as cold weather swept across the Middle East.
Saudi cleric issues fatwa on snowmen | World news | The Guardian


I concur!I may laugh at the issuer of such opinions, but I do not underestimate the influence upon the followers.
These clerics dont realise that by passing such fatwas they embarass millions of followers
Islam seriously is in dire need of a "reset".
when will become breathing a sin and haram?
The issue here is lack of tolerance. The man is a shiekh who has a certain following. They do not impose their belief on others who do not want to follow them. They have an online website to make it easier for people to get in contact with the shiekh. Now the issue with this is someone saw the news and posted it online in a newspaper. The people who got the judgement is ok, the people in the area are ok with it, and it hurt no one. But apparently it is ok to judge everyone and laugh at the way they interpret things. Learn to respect other people and what they believe. Rather then get embarrassed tell people that there are different interpretations to some texts and there are differences in practice. The world will understand they have seen other religions with sects living peacefully. The problem starts when we start bashing our own people making it open season for others too also. Learn tolerance to other what other people believe.These clerics dont realise that by passing such fatwas they embarass millions of followers