Update 02/11/10 Scroll down please.
02/09/10
From business.maktoob.com
Schoolgirls on violent rampage in Mecca
DUBAI - Schoolgirls in Mecca went on a violent rampage on Monday when their
mobile phones were confiscated, smashing furniture and taking the principal
hostage, Arab News reported.
Police were forced to call in jail wardens from a nearby women’s prison to break
up the riot and rescue the principal, the Saudi daily reported on Tuesday.
The mayhem ensued after the principal and her assistant confiscated seven camera
phones, makeup items and perfume from a classroom, according to the newspaper.
Students are not allowed to bring these items into school.
Around 750 students attend the school in the city’s Mansour district, the paper
reported, without saying how many were involved in the riot.
Education authorities have launched in investigation into the incident and
police have filed cases against those students involved in the unrest, the paper
said.
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Moral of the story: Don't mess with jihadettes. - They'll kick your ass.
(This may explain why muslim men are always in such a bad mood.)
Update 02/11/10
From The Telegraph (UK)
Arab ambassador discovers bride is bearded and
cross-eyed behind veil
An Arab ambassador has called off his wedding after discovering his wife-to-be
who wears a face-covering veil is bearded and cross-eyed.
The envoy had only met the woman a few times, during which she had hidden her
face behind a niqab*, the Gulf News reported.
After the marriage contract was signed, the ambassador attempted to kiss his
bride-to-be. It was only then that he discovered her facial hair and eyes.
The ambassador told an Islamic Sharia court in the United Arab Emirates he was
tricked into the marriage as the woman's mother had shown his own mother
pictures of her sister instead of his bride-to-be.
He sued for the contract to be annulled and also demanded the woman pay him
500,000 dirhams (£85,000) for clothes, jewelry and other gifts he had bought for
her.
The court annulled the contract but rejected the ambassador's demand for
compensation.
The report did not identify the ambassador.
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* a niqab or a poke.
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[Q] From Mike Baker: All my life I have heard the phrase
a pig in a poke. Do
you know where this phrase originated?
[A] Though the current version in full is “Don’t buy a pig in a poke”, don’t buy
or accept something without first checking or assessing it, it’s first recorded
in London around 1530 in a form intended to be good advice to honourable
traders: “When ye proffer the pigge open the poke”, but its best known early
appearance is in John Heywood’s A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of
all the proverbes in the Englishe tongue of 1546 (a title usually and with good
reason abbreviated to Proverbs), where it appears in the form “Though he love
not to buy the pig in the poke”. About 1555, Heywood included it in his other
famous compilation work, Epigrammes, in the almost modern form “I will never bye
the pig in the poke”.
Many Americans know a poke as a small bag or sack, which it was also in
Heywood’s day (a usage that has survived in Scotland). A poke, for example, was
a suitable container into which to stuff a piglet for sale in the local market.
The proverb encapsulates that wise advice to purchasers of goods, caveat emptor,
let the buyer beware — always inspect the goods before you pay for them. Make
the seller open his poke and show you the pig within.
Incidentally, the proverb has its direct counterparts in other languages, as in
the Swedish Köp inte grisen i säcken! However, in other languages it refers to
cats, as in French: Acheter chat en poche (“To buy a cat in a pouch”), and
German: Die Katze im Sack kaufen (“To buy a cat in a sack”). Why the expressions
in these languages refer to cats and not pigs supports a link with another
expression, to let the
cat out of the bag.
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Evidently there is no similar wise old proverb in Arabic culture.