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Letters to Haidar the Saudi Lion: #1
Translations provided by the Avenger Rat; both letters were originally written in Arabic.
Dear Haidar,
When foreigners hear Saudi Arabia, they think of camel riders, Islam, Sharia Law, traditionalism, family, food, and gender discrimination. While they are true, what they don't realize are the modern social progresses we have made with the world. In fact, in 2019, our government decided to loosen up laws regarding about dancing and music. As a result, revues for music concerts exploded in growth throughout our country. On top of that, we just became the rave capital in the Middle East to the point that our rave scenes outshines that in the United Arab Emirates. The best part, people of both genders dance together on the same dance floor. Even our dress code laws have become lax these days, where women, especially those who are dating and married, can opt out from wearing an abaya in public with the permission of their husbands and boyfriends. After all, just not too long ago, women can finally drive. At the rave clubs, you might see guys in thwabs with various makeup on their faces, as well as guys wearing modern western style clothing. So our society is actually changing, even though we still have Sharia Law, since our constitution is the Quran.
Armenia is an extremely traditional Christian nation, but they are open to modern ideas that won't compromise their morals, which sounds like here. A big example of that is our government trying to find solutions against our obesity epidemic without compromising our morals here. Our gyms are strongly segregated by gender, and encouraging our people to go there can be challenging. So when we heard of Mexico using their own tax money to import games like Dance Dance Revolution, because it's a fun way to burn calories, our government followed suit and encouraged our people to purchase game dance pads to use at home. These games introduced many of our youth to Korean pop music, and believe it or not, we've been experiencing large visitors of Korean furry boy and girl bands visiting Saudi Arabia for them to hold their concerts, and let's just say, each of them were so successful, they rival against the furry musicians from Wildcat City, excluding their marching bands.
Saudi Arabia as a modern society is very open and we are very hospitable people to foreigners. We have a lovely rich culture that we enjoy sharing with the world. We also hold the annual International Yogurt Festival because we are the global producer of yogurt, and we want to share our love and passion in it to outsiders. When people like Cristiano Ronaldo visit us, we treat them like kings and provide them the wildest luxuries our imaginations can think of for them. Even the Americans are amazed at our ideas, especially with technology. We are also a nation known for our advanced medicine, so people expect us to care for the health and well-being for our people a lot, too. But then again, that's just common sense on a global scale.
I'm a family physician, and often times I find myself speaking to my patients about the importance of exercise and dieting. Luckily, the use of home dance game pads are an incredibly fun way to get people to exercise. Personally, I'm thrilled at the growing modern dance music scenes in Saudi Arabia.
I already know what you think about the dancing games since obviously, that is beneficial for our nation. But since I have explained to you about our government allowing concerts and dance revues to open here, allowing certain foreign musicians to come here to perform for their fans here, what do you think of that finally happening here?
Dr. Abdullah Boushaki, age 33 (human being)
Dammam, Eastern Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Haidar's response:
Dear Dr. Boushaki:
Our government allowing concerts and dance revues is something that was way overdue. It shouldn't have taken us all the way to 2019 to finally allow women to drive, use firearms, or anything of that nature. I've heard that this was a subject matter that my major American counterpart (Leo) had been discussing with our previous head of state, King Abdullah, when the latter offered to pay for the former's hosptial bills after the former had been shot in the head; it's a good thing the other parallels and I hadn't experienced the time warp yet (not counting any lions born after Leo who didn't experience that, but still somehow discovered they were his parallels; an example is Levi the Mountee Lion, who is now the Prime Minister of Canada), or else, it may have thrown all world history out of whack and ended the world right then and there. If it ends, it won't come back.
Why discuss it? Abdullah was doing things we weren't seeing other rulers do in the past, such as giving women the right to vote for municipal councils and allowing them to compete in the Olympic Games. He had said that Leo was one of his biggest inspirations for doing those things, and that Allah had assigned the lion to be Earth's guardian angel. That is not something you can say to somebody like Leo lightly, and it is not something he can take lightly. I think he has demonstrated that with the job he's done.
I am very grateful that women are getting to do things they couldn't even do until the end of last decade, and I am also grateful that we are getting these girl and boy bands to perform for our people. They couldn't do that before without the risk of getting banned, injured, or killed (as far as I know), since Saudi Arabia is finally opening herself and her mind to the world. It is definitely a step in the right direction, and I hope that this continues for years to come. We live now in one of the most peaceful eras of our world, even if some don't realize it.
I hope that helps, and thank you for writing to me. All the best with continued success with your profession, and with the progress we are making, we can see women also thriving in jobs they couldn't before, such as your job.
Yours truly,
Haidar Zaman, a.k.a. Haidar the Saudi Lion
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Letters to Haidar the Saudi Lion: #1
Translations provided by the Avenger Rat; both letters were originally written in Arabic.
Dear Haidar,
When foreigners hear Saudi Arabia, they think of camel riders, Islam, Sharia Law, traditionalism, family, food, and gender discrimination. While they are true, what they don't realize are the modern social progresses we have made with the world. In fact, in 2019, our government decided to loosen up laws regarding about dancing and music. As a result, revues for music concerts exploded in growth throughout our country. On top of that, we just became the rave capital in the Middle East to the point that our rave scenes outshines that in the United Arab Emirates. The best part, people of both genders dance together on the same dance floor. Even our dress code laws have become lax these days, where women, especially those who are dating and married, can opt out from wearing an abaya in public with the permission of their husbands and boyfriends. After all, just not too long ago, women can finally drive. At the rave clubs, you might see guys in thwabs with various makeup on their faces, as well as guys wearing modern western style clothing. So our society is actually changing, even though we still have Sharia Law, since our constitution is the Quran.
Armenia is an extremely traditional Christian nation, but they are open to modern ideas that won't compromise their morals, which sounds like here. A big example of that is our government trying to find solutions against our obesity epidemic without compromising our morals here. Our gyms are strongly segregated by gender, and encouraging our people to go there can be challenging. So when we heard of Mexico using their own tax money to import games like Dance Dance Revolution, because it's a fun way to burn calories, our government followed suit and encouraged our people to purchase game dance pads to use at home. These games introduced many of our youth to Korean pop music, and believe it or not, we've been experiencing large visitors of Korean furry boy and girl bands visiting Saudi Arabia for them to hold their concerts, and let's just say, each of them were so successful, they rival against the furry musicians from Wildcat City, excluding their marching bands.
Saudi Arabia as a modern society is very open and we are very hospitable people to foreigners. We have a lovely rich culture that we enjoy sharing with the world. We also hold the annual International Yogurt Festival because we are the global producer of yogurt, and we want to share our love and passion in it to outsiders. When people like Cristiano Ronaldo visit us, we treat them like kings and provide them the wildest luxuries our imaginations can think of for them. Even the Americans are amazed at our ideas, especially with technology. We are also a nation known for our advanced medicine, so people expect us to care for the health and well-being for our people a lot, too. But then again, that's just common sense on a global scale.
I'm a family physician, and often times I find myself speaking to my patients about the importance of exercise and dieting. Luckily, the use of home dance game pads are an incredibly fun way to get people to exercise. Personally, I'm thrilled at the growing modern dance music scenes in Saudi Arabia.
I already know what you think about the dancing games since obviously, that is beneficial for our nation. But since I have explained to you about our government allowing concerts and dance revues to open here, allowing certain foreign musicians to come here to perform for their fans here, what do you think of that finally happening here?
Dr. Abdullah Boushaki, age 33 (human being)
Dammam, Eastern Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Haidar's response:
Dear Dr. Boushaki:
Our government allowing concerts and dance revues is something that was way overdue. It shouldn't have taken us all the way to 2019 to finally allow women to drive, use firearms, or anything of that nature. I've heard that this was a subject matter that my major American counterpart (Leo) had been discussing with our previous head of state, King Abdullah, when the latter offered to pay for the former's hosptial bills after the former had been shot in the head; it's a good thing the other parallels and I hadn't experienced the time warp yet (not counting any lions born after Leo who didn't experience that, but still somehow discovered they were his parallels; an example is Levi the Mountee Lion, who is now the Prime Minister of Canada), or else, it may have thrown all world history out of whack and ended the world right then and there. If it ends, it won't come back.
Why discuss it? Abdullah was doing things we weren't seeing other rulers do in the past, such as giving women the right to vote for municipal councils and allowing them to compete in the Olympic Games. He had said that Leo was one of his biggest inspirations for doing those things, and that Allah had assigned the lion to be Earth's guardian angel. That is not something you can say to somebody like Leo lightly, and it is not something he can take lightly. I think he has demonstrated that with the job he's done.
I am very grateful that women are getting to do things they couldn't even do until the end of last decade, and I am also grateful that we are getting these girl and boy bands to perform for our people. They couldn't do that before without the risk of getting banned, injured, or killed (as far as I know), since Saudi Arabia is finally opening herself and her mind to the world. It is definitely a step in the right direction, and I hope that this continues for years to come. We live now in one of the most peaceful eras of our world, even if some don't realize it.
I hope that helps, and thank you for writing to me. All the best with continued success with your profession, and with the progress we are making, we can see women also thriving in jobs they couldn't before, such as your job.
Yours truly,
Haidar Zaman, a.k.a. Haidar the Saudi Lion
Letters to Haidar the Saudi Lion: #1
Haidar's first letter he wishes to share with the public.
Character joint-owned by me and Chuong; he did the original letter, and I wrote the response.
Character joint-owned by me and Chuong; he did the original letter, and I wrote the response.
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(Male equivalent to abaya is called a thawb. My mistake.)
Zax: Saudi Arabia have rave festivals that are bigger than those in the United Arab Emirates? Nobody told me this?
Warlord Wolf: It's true! They're even bigger than our rave festivals and Israel's rave festivals combined.
Nadav: You'll see Jewish visitors from around the world having fun in their music festivals as much as you see young Saudi guys with rave makeup in thawbs.
Chuong: Korean music concerts in Saudi Arabia? Why is nobody telling me these things?
Quick Blade: We've been looking for solutions to save our tourism industry and we're finally caught up. But still, the fact that it took this long to finally have these rights and things shows how far behind we are compared to other countries.
Astro Hawk: Even more crazy that it took the entire world this long to realize that the solution to encourage kids to be healthy and off the streets at night is in the form of home game dance pads for games like In The Groove. United Arab Emirates is known for her skyscrapers and luxuries, yet we are behind the world in some ways until now.
Zax: Is Furry Fury allowed in Saudi?
Quick Blade: Absolutely! As long his songs and contents are family-friendly, he and his band are more than welcome in our kingdom. On the downside, we're extremely concerned about the risk of crowd crushes because almost every year during Ramadan, someone gets hurt because they're not using common sense and police resources are limited. Personally, I don't think we have enough C.I.D.F. support to prevent this so I've been asking Super C for more help. So whatever they're doing right in our other music concerts to prevent crowd crushes, we need that during Ramadan.
Zax: Saudi Arabia have rave festivals that are bigger than those in the United Arab Emirates? Nobody told me this?
Warlord Wolf: It's true! They're even bigger than our rave festivals and Israel's rave festivals combined.
Nadav: You'll see Jewish visitors from around the world having fun in their music festivals as much as you see young Saudi guys with rave makeup in thawbs.
Chuong: Korean music concerts in Saudi Arabia? Why is nobody telling me these things?
Quick Blade: We've been looking for solutions to save our tourism industry and we're finally caught up. But still, the fact that it took this long to finally have these rights and things shows how far behind we are compared to other countries.
Astro Hawk: Even more crazy that it took the entire world this long to realize that the solution to encourage kids to be healthy and off the streets at night is in the form of home game dance pads for games like In The Groove. United Arab Emirates is known for her skyscrapers and luxuries, yet we are behind the world in some ways until now.
Zax: Is Furry Fury allowed in Saudi?
Quick Blade: Absolutely! As long his songs and contents are family-friendly, he and his band are more than welcome in our kingdom. On the downside, we're extremely concerned about the risk of crowd crushes because almost every year during Ramadan, someone gets hurt because they're not using common sense and police resources are limited. Personally, I don't think we have enough C.I.D.F. support to prevent this so I've been asking Super C for more help. So whatever they're doing right in our other music concerts to prevent crowd crushes, we need that during Ramadan.
(Fixed it; it's all good.)
Super C: *to Quick Blade* I'm willing to help out any way I can. You should know that the C.I.D.F. never have any less than 1 million soldiers in each nation, but if you do need extra help, the other nations of the world will send it; it won't just be me and the G-52s.
Cripto: I do tend to draw in bigger-than-normal crowds just because it is me. And no worries; all of our music is safe for everybody. Both our originals and our covers, the video game covers especially. But we do not perform for anybody who causes a crowd crush, or anywhere where it would risk a crowd crush. The CNG crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic were bad enough as it is, because we have been doing less live shows overall, but the crowd crushes in Houston and Australia cut it down to almost nothing.
Haidar: So you're almost to the point where you'll just record in the studio, then?
Cripto: Or at least do live streams on YouTube. But if we can work something out, and the people will cooperate, we'll gladly perform on stage for you folks of Saudi Arabia.
Super C: *to Quick Blade* I'm willing to help out any way I can. You should know that the C.I.D.F. never have any less than 1 million soldiers in each nation, but if you do need extra help, the other nations of the world will send it; it won't just be me and the G-52s.
Cripto: I do tend to draw in bigger-than-normal crowds just because it is me. And no worries; all of our music is safe for everybody. Both our originals and our covers, the video game covers especially. But we do not perform for anybody who causes a crowd crush, or anywhere where it would risk a crowd crush. The CNG crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic were bad enough as it is, because we have been doing less live shows overall, but the crowd crushes in Houston and Australia cut it down to almost nothing.
Haidar: So you're almost to the point where you'll just record in the studio, then?
Cripto: Or at least do live streams on YouTube. But if we can work something out, and the people will cooperate, we'll gladly perform on stage for you folks of Saudi Arabia.
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