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Halli’s Comments
Loy Krathong Festival the introduction of television. There are no movie theatres
in Saudi Arabia because they believe it would promote
By Halli Moore unhealthy mingling of the sexes.
Women have no rights at all. They are not allowed to
The sky is peppered drive, must seek permission to have surgery, get a job,
with stars, a warm tropical go to college, etc. Fifteen Arab schoolgirls burned to
breeze blows across the death in a Fire because religious police prevented their
river, the tables are laden rescue. Why? The girls were not wearing the Obligatory
with a feast of foods, the head veil.
sound of laughter rings Their absolute lunacy and fanaticism defies
through the air…and Loy imagination. America will always be reminded of that
Krathong is about to begin. day when not one but two planes wrecked their havoc
Experience Thailand’s most on the famous World Trade Center buildings, another
romantic and beautiful plane attacked the Pentagon and the crash of flight 93 in
festival at Thailand’s most romantic and beautiful hotel Halli Moore and Lou Moore Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Thousands of innocent
– The Shangra-la a- fabulous fashion show of traditional lives were taken that day.
Thai costumes by Kalavin will grace the walkways while everyone. Of course, the grande finale is truly spectacular. In September, millions of people all over the world
a Krathong competition and fun and games abound for As the night sky is lit up with a stunning fireworks were and still are deeply shocked and share the grief of
display, over 1000 candle-lit Krathongs will be set afloat, our great nation.
their flickering lights signaling good fortune in the year Dr. Marvin Perry who taught history at Baruch College
ahead. Celebrate this Loy Krathong with a night of CUNY and has written many books said, “Osama bin
romance and revelry here at the Shangri-La. Laden and his followers interpret their struggle against the
I AM REPEATING THIS COLUMN FOR THOSE OF United States as a holy war against the infidels. In 1998 bin
YOU WHO HAVE NOT SEEN IT. A Column that made Laden told his followers that the stationing of American
us shutter in disbelief at yet another day in infamy. troops in Saudi Arabia, the land of the two Holy Mosques
Only inhuman creatures that envy a way of life demonstrated that America had spearheaded the crusade
completely foreign to their own would cause these against the Islamic nation. Bin Laden is a religious fanatic
detestable acts perpetrated on an imagined enemy. What and absolutist who Cannot tolerate pluralism and wants to
evil minds designed and implemented this shocking terror drive Westerners and Western value out of Islamic lands.
in the name of religion? What provoked the nineteen men Recruits for suicide missions are equally convinced they
who carried out the attacks (15 of whom were Saudis?) are waging holy war against the enemies of God and will
Ibn Abdul Wahab, born in 1703 was the founder of the be richly rewarded in Paradise.
most extreme form of today’s Islamic Fundamentalism. Americans and peace-loving people all over the
Wahhabism is the official of most of the Gulf States and world hopefully will excavate these terrible thugs from
the official State religion of Saudi Arabia, the Royal their ditches and their caves and wherever they hide and
Princes, the state bureaucracy, Army Air force, and of cleanse the earth of them. They committed atrocities of
course, Osama Bin Laden. innocents of all faiths, of all colors and diverse origins.
These people oppose anything viewed as change We must never forget the Holocaust, the massacre of
or modernization that deviates from The teaching of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks, The Cambodian
the Koran. This includes radio, telephone and public massacre, Rwanda, Darfur and, of course, September 11,
education for women, which was condemned as 2001, ANOTHER DAY IN INFAMY.
innovations wrought by the devil. In 1965 riots were
quelled when police fired on demonstrators because of Halli Moore is a resident of The Palms.
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