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i didn't have time to read the whole article since i have school soon enough, but from skimming through it i'm sure many of the things in Saudia Arabia arn't all fine and dandy.. the Royal family is taking advantage of many of its citizens... women are not allowed to drive (when in Islam thats allowed).. Many of the arabs have taken advantage of there people thats why right now we see many Saudi citizens wanting a reform in the state of saudia arabia.. I would agree that many of the royal saudi's arn't doing all that well when it comes to running a country. but becuase a so called "muslims" are running a country to there desire does not reflect a relgion.. many of the things the "muslim" are doing in that country does not even reflect the religion at all

No the compounds are not a joke, I've heard from a first hand sourse who used to be a manger in those compounds.. many of the westerns where very happy living there dong what ever they liked in there compounds.

As for the converting in India, from what i've read about recent history the hindu religion has a caste system and when a person of the lower caste can't get a job he has no choice to convert to another relgion this is the reason why there was a mass convertion many years ago when lower caste hindu's converted to budism. In many of these cases it was due to the fact the lower caste hindu's where not able to advance in society as higher caste hindu's.

right now india is addressing this problem for the lower caste people but this was just recent.