I did a junior staff officer course whilst in the RAF (Henlow - C-Steam). One of the students was a Saudi Major. The course was only a month long, but he took a married quarter for his family. His sons dressed in modern western clothing and went INTO phpbb_London most nights to drink and indulge in the sins of the flesh in Soho. At the end of course party the Major brought his wife who was a voluptuous woman not averse to showing a discreet amount of cleavage, wearing a tad too much make up, drinking G&Ts and smoking like a chimney. She spoke fluent English and was very westernised, but was a Saudi citizen. I asked her about Islam and Saudi Arabia and she said she was enjoying a holiday from it.
An Omani officer I trained with went the whole hog and took to eating bacon at breakfast and drinking whisky at night, much to the chagrin of the other 8 Omanis on the course who were good Muslims.
Interestingly alcohol is not available in Saudi, but at weekends Saudis jump INTO phpbb_their cars and head for Bahrain for a couple of nights of sun, sea and alcohol.
The problem is that the individuals are no more hypocritical than the lapsed Christians in our country who have sex outside of marriage or get drunk or don't kill witches. They live in a society that seeks to control their actions by fear and oppression and have no choice from birth as to their religion, citizenship etc.
The nutters still worry me.
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