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Subject: Our Civilization in Decline

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Kevin Dougherty

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Date Posted: 14:14:30 04/10/02 Wed

[B]Our Civilization in Decline [/B]

Iraq appears to be preparing construction contracts in a serious bid to host the 2012 Olympics, according to a Washington Times report (GOOD LUCK GUYS)

In March, some of the normally tightly restrained local press in Saudi Arabia reported that 15 schoolgirls in Mecca died in a fire, with the fatalities due at least in part to their being denied permission to flee the burning building without their scarves and abaya robes. Witnesses said
police from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice beat three girls until they retreated back into the smoke-filled building. Escape was further hindered because girls are always locked in at the school, in order to keep males out. [BBC News, 3-15-02]

In March, police in Jaipur, India, arrested 81 bookmakers who had been offering bets as to whether the Hindu-Muslim riots would escalate to adjacent states (as well as offering over-under bets on the number of casualties).

And Reuters reported in March that veterinarians in Jerusalem are finding that more dogs suffer panic attacks due to increased gunfire and are generally prescribing Valium for them.

A Saudi Arabian woman who was found by a court to have been raped by her sister's husband was sentenced to six months in jail and 65 lashes because she had thus had sex (Jeddah, February). [Associated Press, 2-17-02]

Mohammad Saboor, 56, was arrested in January as the well-dressed man who has spontaneously kissed at least nine female strangers on Toronto streets since November.
[Toronto Sun, 1-24-02]

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