Abdul Rahman al-Rashed thanks the women who signed the petition that demands women to stay at house, and not to go out for work or driving cars, and maybe not to study at schools at all! He thinks that those women have made it clear that they are such minority ready to protest against women rights. Because, in opposite to these 500 women, there are tens of thousands of college graduate girls, waiting for their turn to enter the jobs market.

Arab News reports that a bank in Dammam has lost a very important customer after the security guard prevented him from entering the bank because he was wearing jeans and shirt. Sounds familiar, right? Yeah. The only difference that I don’t have SR5 million!

I told you before about the personalized Google page, but I have to tell you that I experienced some problems with adding feeds to the page. I have also tried Microsoft’s Start, which has the same concept, but it was much easier to use and faster. If anyone has tried any of the two sites, please let me know what you think.

BBC: “Marbella mourns King Fahd’s death.”

Dr. Ali Alyami of the Saudi Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia is calling the new king “to change the course of history in a way that will save the country, its diverse population and his family.” I hope and prey the new king will push toward change and reform.

After looking at the cover of The Independent, Jowhara thinks it’s funny how the Western media are so critical of the Middle East. She asks, instead of looking at King Fahad’s shortcomings, “why cant they look at the good stuff that he has done such as opening mosques and schools sponsoring orphans and giving large donations to charity?”

I’ve been reading several sources of the Western media in the past few days, and I think most of their content was balanced and fair. They mentioned King Fahad’s mistakes and shortcomings, but they also focused on his guidance to the country for development and modernization, and his critical decisions.

Ben Kerishan has a a long, controversial, and mind-provoking, post on the similarities between Wahhabism, Puritism, and Khawarij. (Arabic)