large pinch of salt

[sherwoodmag]

Saudi is a very religious country but way behind the times in the minds of modern Europeans.

Britain only stopped hanging when I was at school in the 1950s and France was still beheading then.*** between men was illegal until the 1960s but now they get married.

People are quick to judge Saudi and claim they are hundreds of years behind us but that is not correct.

As for the war in South Yemen when I was in the military in the 1960s the British Army were fighting there in the Aden area.We had occupied it for a long time to refuel our ships on the way to our Eastern Empire.
Critics of Saudi should learn our VERY recent history.

[toptoon]

…..just to give an example - the friendliness and hospitality of people in many Arab cultures ‘blows ours away’. We are positively hostile in comparison.