Sunni minority in Saudi Arabia BBC News 24 now

the deafening silence
iraq  - new policies for marrying up to 9 year old girls
middle east govts refuse to sign off on UNHCR rights for women
stonings of woman in pakistan
pregnant christian woman forced to give berth chained in cell who has been sentenced to death
sunnis suppressed by majority in middle east(saudi arabia)

what else do you want to know

Iran - don't dance on You tube.

bradford - muslim extremists taking over school been going on for years!!

do you get the drift ??

Oh now leopard -  that is racist/extremist/anti muslim rhetoric - you should be ashamed of your self.
Don't start bringing up child abduction, forced marriages and honour killings in britain  - you will be banned - and quite right too!!??

They won`t take over here, we are too feckin hard. Seriously, they will be kept in check.

The eussr has sucked us in and we are being blown out in bubbles.

You want to check out Yemen - originally a protectorate of britain and the state of it today

Strangely, something I was involved in.

what age do you think they should go to shanelee??

moisok don't you know you are a racist if you think there should be a cap on immigration numbers whatever colour they might be. What I have never had answered sufficiently is this - If you are an EU citizen and wish to settle in Britain they you may do this. However, how exactly are local councils and the Government supposed to plan effectively for services such as hospitals, schools etc when they really have no idea what sort of population they may have in 5, or 10 years time?

like 10000 places for nurses to train so they can, cheaply,  recruit from outside the uk

students cannot get places to train as doctors in the uk

can you see the idea!!??/

its all about cost
what is racist about that except racist against our own uk people black asian or white.

even the asian MPs in Labour are now campaigning about this

If they cannot ship them in then they will ship the jobs out east.
If I was running a business this is what I would do.

PROFIT  is good.   I employed someone where the government paid him and it was no cost to me.

Love it!!!!

Oh, and to be pedantic, Saudi is Sunni majority leopard.

prosecution, suppression of women , but support of the west - what a tangled web we weave -  silence from the left (except me)  and from the feminist guardianista apologists

does it not stick in your throat
people treated like non humans  - yahck    makes me sick

and no pressure from our sickening so called politicians!!!

Oh, and to get on track with the thread, that we are allies with Saudi is a disgrace. They cause a large degree of the trouble in the Middle East.

Minority not Sunni, correct (but they are fascistic against the minority):

Wiki :

There are about 25 million people who are Muslim, or 97% of the total population.[227] However excluding foreign workers, about 100% of its population is Muslim.[228] Data for Saudi Arabia comes primarily from general population surveys, which are less reliable than censuses or large-scale demographic and health surveys for estimating minority-majority ratios.[227] About 85–90% of Saudis are Sunni, while Shias represent around 10–15% of the Muslim population.[229] The official and dominant form of Sunni Islam in Saudi Arabia is commonly known as Wahhabism (a name which some of its proponents consider derogatory, preferring the term Salafism[230]), founded in the Arabian Peninsula by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab in the eighteenth century, is often described as 'puritanical', 'intolerant' or 'ultra-conservative'. However, proponents consider that its teachings seek to purify the practice of Islam of any innovations or practices that deviate from the seventh-century teachings of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and his companions.[231] Shias face persecution in employment and religious ceremonies.[232]

In 2010, the U.S. State Department stated that in Saudi Arabia "freedom of religion is neither recognized nor protected under the law and is severely restricted in practice" and that "government policies continued to place severe restrictions on religious freedom".[6] No faith other than Islam is permitted to be practiced, although there are nearly a million Christians – nearly all foreign workers – in Saudi Arabia.[233] There are no churches or other non-Muslim houses of worship permitted in the country.[6] Even private prayer services are forbidden in practice and the Saudi religious police reportedly regularly search the homes of Christians.[233] Foreign workers have to observe Ramadan but are not allowed to celebrate Christmas or Easter.[233]

Conversion by Muslims to another religion (apostasy) carries the death penalty, although there have been no confirmed reports of executions for apostasy in recent years.[6] Proselytizing by non-Muslims is illegal,[6] and the last Christian priest was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1985.[233] There are some Hindus and Buddhists in Saudi Arabia. Compensation in court cases discriminates against non-Muslims: once fault is determined, a Muslim receives all of the amount of compensation determined, a Jew or Christian half, and all others a sixteenth.[233] Saudi Arabia has officially identified atheists as terrorists.[234] The regulations place secular citizens who commit thought crimes in the same category as violent terrorist groups[235]

According to Human Rights Watch, the Shia minority face systematic discrimination from the Saudi government in education, the justice system and especially religious freedom.[236] Restrictions are imposed on the public celebration of Shia festivals such as Ashura and on the Shia taking part in communal public worship.

But not when they are in this country !

unfortunately the islamists  are here!! They will follow examples from abroad with their compliance and even fiscal backing - until anyone realises that they will know nothing!!!

ps  and if you do not think they suppress women look how they behave and dress in public

full wack for the woman in black - full garb   -   geezer in reverse us baseball cap, trendy t shirt , shorts and trainers  - in posh french  cafe by the US embassy I frequent

nah !!! nothing like do as I say or as I do nah!!!  You must be right

western dress ok for guy  but not for the women  ha ha!!!!  I must be so fn racist

I spent years abroad, some in muslim communities and never ever saw them dressed like this!!

You tell me I know fk all - I have just been there - Iran, Malaysia, Singapore etc etc
it is a political movement that includes the control of women

wake up!!!!
!!

moisok....you remind me of a young punterz....guy used to play poker on BF...you're not him are you?

Top head to head player ?

and I am so fkn old i cant sea 2 type  - and some wood say a good job 2

moisok

In Iraq before SH was overthrown, women were allowed to dress western style, so he was forward looking for a Muslim leader

WE overthrew him, so what is happening in Iraq now is OUR FAULT

Pakistan has been destabilised by this never ending war in Afghanistan
The Taliban have now moved to Pakistan, so there is now a strong Islamic fundamentalist movement there
Again it is OUR FAULT for not staying out of Afghanistan is the first place

As for women in Muslim society, they have a different role than men, and this is very formalised
so I do not necessarily see this as the suppression of women per se

In our society men and women are seen as the same and can do the same roles. But there is actually a problem with this
because in fact men ad women are not quite the same. In the 60/70s I thought men and women had it about right, we worked in
partnership.

Nowadays I think we are wrong because women spend most of their time attacking men, saying how bad men are, etc, how women
are all discriminated against....well by men I assume????? Only I have never seen this....so I have no doubt we are giving
women far too much power in our society now....I would like to see a sensible mean here.