Please help me out on the following- 1-Do any of the greatest Saudi football players like Majed Abdullah,Nawaf Temyat,Yousef,Sami Jaber,Fahad Mahalal,Khalid Temawi etc sons play football in Saudi League. 2-Do any of the players currently playing in SPL have there business of there own?
I think Sami Al Jaber's son is in the Hilal youth team? But I don't think any SPL player owns a business no.
As far to my knowledge Yasser Qahtani have a business in Egypt but about rest of the players i have got no information
There's three main climates in Saudi Arabia, you got the coastal areas which range from a high of 30 degrees Celsius to 20, then you have the central areas far from a coast and the southern part of the country with weather ranging from 25 high to low 8.
saudi64 : u forgot us ... i hate it when people ignore the north :< the north is the coldest in saudi arabia its not very cold now but it will get colder on jan Max: 26°C Min: 11°C
So what's the news from the streets, anybody thinking about rioting against the regime? Saudis seem to not mind their dictators that much. People seem to be happy with all the oil money floating around no?
Saudi Arabia has no sanctioned political parties, no labour unions, absolutely no protests of any kind allowed anywhere. Even volunteer groups and charities are controlled by the interior ministry. Organising any sort of riot is a momunetal task. BTW, unlike most gulf regimes: Saudi citizens are actually not very wealthy.
Politics.... yikes! Mass protests in Saudi are highly unlikely any time soon. We've had lots of small protests but nothing significant. People talk and grumble in their salons, send petitions on occasions, but they rarely take to the streets. As mentioned by B_P, the interior ministry has the country well locked down. But it's not just that. Many activists try to work with the regime and steer it to reform. Saudi Arabia is a divided country. There is a sense that the country's unity is dependent on the royal family. If they are to fall, it is feared there will be a balkan style breakup.
well neither does Iran (except political parties but every party is a supporter of the Islamic Republic so it doesn't even count). and the regime is 100 times more brutal (for example Iran has had the highest per capita executions on earth for a couple of decades now and second in terms of absolute numbers after China). The internet is also one of the most filtered on earth. Yet people don't skip a chance to riot (1999, 2009 were the biggest ones). It just seems to me that something is holding the people back in KSA. Since my knowledge regarding the country is piss poor I always have to come with quick conclusions. The people must be happy to an extent though. You don't need the things that you mentioned for a revolution or protesting. From what I see the people are much more conservative than many of the surrounding countries and there is a lot of money floating around (comparative to the region as a whole) so people are never that interested in changing the status quo. How about the Americans? How are they involved in the countries internal politics?
can you go into detail about that? I know more about the istan countries than KSA unfortunately. Do you mean a breakup between the shias and sunnis or different ethnic backgrounds? Aren't all saudis the same ethnicity?
I still remember when a London based cleric called for a protest against the monarchy.Riyadh was totally in dull silence that day with police in every corner of Olaya street and other main parts of the city.But the protesters did not turn out as expected.
no we got many respected ethnic backgrounds on the kingdom but successful countries were never built on a race successful countries were built on an ideology i don't think the country will breakup even if the royals fall . WE NEED A CALIPHATE ASAP .
Religious differences is one aspect. You also have regional divisions. Saudi Arabia was formed in 1932. In the 2 decades preceding, King Abdulaziz al-Saud conquered one region after another and added them to his kingdom. These regions had their own cultures, traditions, and history, and the regional identities still exist. Moreover two problem regions have great strategic value: The Hijaz in the west has the holy sites, what's known today as the eastern province has most of the oil. You also have tribalism, tension between the sedentary culture and bedouin culture etc...
Iran (and Egypt) have a long history of rebellion, and they are remembered and celebrated. Saudi Arabia on the other hand doesn't have that much, and what there is has been erased from history.