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SAUDI MAN FILMS CUSTOMER OUTRAGED OVER ROTTEN CUCUMBERS

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SAUDI MAN FILMS CUSTOMER OUTRAGED OVER ROTTEN CUCUMBERS

By KGS13 years ago3

In the West, an employee or manager would be notified and the bad product removed. KGS

Rotten cucumber fight in Saudi supermarket

Customer criticised by local authorities after putting video on YouTube

Emirates 24/7: A Saudi man shopping at a top supermarket chain in Saudi triggered a scuffle with the workers after asking his friend to film him with a rotten cucumber box he found in the vegetable section at the shop. The man then put the film on YouTube, drawing sharp criticism from local health authorities.

The two-minute film, published in Saudi newspapers on Wednesday, showed the unnamed man holding and waving the rotten cucumber box and screaming at the workers in a bid to attract the attention of other customers.

The sales manager and several other staff members at the hypermarket in Riyadh were shown surrounding the man and trying to snatch the box from him. A scuffle ensued before one worker managed to retrieve the box.

The film, shown in Sharq newspaper, was entitled:”An honest Saudi man exposes Carrefour and quarrels with its staff members.”

The paper said that besides infuriating staff, the man also drew angry reactions from local health officials on the grounds the film appears to be criticizing their failure to detect bad food in stores.

“The way this man used in exposing bad food is unacceptable and undisciplined,” said Rushoud al Shaqrawi, deputy director of the Saudi consumer protection committee. “There are other disciplined ways that should be followed in such cases, including contacting the municipality on its emergency number.”

Written by KGS

3 Responses

By Softly Bob Sep 09, 2011

The Prophet Mohammed said nothing about cucumbers but told them all to drink camel piss!
By Robert114 Sep 10, 2011

I’d bet $10 that it was a set up. Note that the package with the rotten green shafts (which modest muslimas should never buy) never left his right hand while he was ransacking the rest of them. The most telling point: the bizarro media described him as an “honest man”.

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Christianity is universal in its message and Jewish in its origins. For centuries after its founding, Christianity’s center was the Mediterranean world, including Asia Minor and North Africa. Christianity has never been defined by race, and locally-grown racist heresies are only sustainable among those ignorant of Christianity’s teachings, origins and history.

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War is being waged against Western culture from within which is in essence a war against Christianity and its moral origins in the Hebrew Bible. By attacking these Biblical foundations in the name of reason and human rights, the culture warriors of secularism are sawing off the branch on which they sit. The only way to defend Western civilisation is to reaffirm and restore its Biblical foundations. My argument is a development of ideas I first explored in my 2012 book The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power.

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Actually, it goes back specifically to the French Enlightenment. In England and Scotland, the Enlightenment developed reason and political liberty within the framework of Biblical belief. In France, by contrast, anti-clericalism morphed into fundamental hostility to Christianity and to religion itself.

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Incitement – Media Jihad.

Al-Jazeera – Media Jihad Channel.

Imposing Sharia law – Judicial Jihad or Legislative Jihad.

Boycotting Israel (BDS) – Economic Jihad.

Emigration to EU and US – Emigration Jihad / Hijra Jihad.

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Hijab or Niqab – Clothing Jihad.

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Iran deal – Western Support for Nuclear Jihad.