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Friday, 19 September 2008
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DAMMAM, Saudi Arabia—Once a month, Nayla says, she writes a letter to Oprah Winfrey.

A young Saudi homemaker who covers her face in public might not seem to have much in common with an American talk show host whose image is known to millions. Like many women in this conservative desert kingdom, Nayla does not usually socialize with people outside her extended family, and she never leaves her house unless chaperoned by her husband.

Ms. Winfrey has not answered the letters. But Nayla says she is still hoping.

“I feel that Oprah truly understands me,” said Nayla, who, like many of the women interviewed, would not let her full name be used. “She gives me energy and hope for my life. Sometimes I think that she is the only person in the world who knows how I feel.” ...

Stay tuned for Oprah & The Kingdom part II when an esteemed Saudi cleric decides Oprah is a bad influence on the morals of Saudi women and that she, like Mickey Mouse, must die.

Posted on 09/19/2008 9:12 AM by Rebecca Bynum
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20 Sep 2008
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Muslim Moonbats In The Belfry
Or Ask Not For Whom The Wahabi Tolls
Or: A Thousand And One Nudges
Or: Nattering Nights Of Nayla*
Or: Marquee [sic] de Sade [sick]
 
My sources - I swear by my four day old beard - Wullah Bullah Oprah - inform me that the NYT is spot off on this one, in that Nayla, a veritable scheming Muslim Lady MacBeth, hopes to get inside the head of Oprah by sending missives, not monthly, but rather each and every night for a few of months of Sundays or so, of the great and wise Prophet, thus moving her at harm's length to revert allah Wahabis In The Winfrey.
 
I can see clearly now; the reign of Western Civ is gone; I can see all obstacles to Jihad are gone -there - up in the lights: it's Sheherazade show time, and the Marquee de Scheherazade will be headed with
Oprah Bouffant.
 
* Hat Tip to William Safire and that late "maverick" and Thief of Bagmen, Spiro T. Agnew
 
 





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