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Posted By: beardedbruce
01-Apr-10 - 08:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: fortune telling = death?
Subject: RE: BS: fortune telling = death?
"How Saudi Arabia Discriminates Against Jews
And How the U.S. Government Enabled the Bigotry for Years
By Pierre Tristam, About.com Guide

In 2004, U.S. Rep, Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, called on President Bush to deny travel visas to Saudi Arabians until the Saudi government explained what appeared to be a policy of banning Jews from traveling to the Kingdom.
The Saudi government's official tourism web site in 2004 listed four groups of people who would be denied visas regardless:

Israelis and anyone with a passport "that has an Israeli arrival/departure stamp."

Those who don't abide by Saudi traditions, and those under the influence of alcohol.

Non-Muslims intending to go to Mecca or Medina, where non-Muslims are banned.

"Jewish people."