Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
by Carmen Bin Ladin
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Author: Carmen Bin LadinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-13
ISBN: 0446694886
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: Inside The Kingdom is Informative,Heartbreaking,Terrifying, and Infuriating
Summary: 5 Stars
This Book written by Carmen Bin Ladin book should be given to every college aged woman of free societies,so they never make the mistake that Carmen did by getting involved with a Middle Eastern man! These women must be informed to avoid these men like the plague!
It was sickening and infuriating to learn what hypocrites these men(especially the men) and women are, in this and other similar books. How they go to free nation's colleges,or to vacation and enjoy our freedoms,and even for our medical care.(what with all their oil wealth,they don't have decent schools or medical care,too busy spending their money building mosques to spread Islam in our countries and financing terrorism). Then return to their countries and vilify our societies! Saudi Arabia should have been on our list of terrorist nations now and for past several decades,but our government prostitutes itself for their oil!
Carmen shares her love story,and how her husband was totally different from the man he became when they moved to the Kingdom so he could help in the Bin Ladin family construction business. He still was much more liberal than the normal Saudi husband and that caused hostility from the family for both of them. I believe they truly loved each other,but she became terrified of what life would be like for her and their daughters if anything should happen to her husband,and the hostile brothers-in-law would then have all say over their lives. She only came to realize this after coming to understand their culture,and their version of Islam.
That was the fear that drove her to leave him. Thank God she never gave up her swiss passport,but she still had a time taking her daughters and escaping the kingdom.
In many ways it was a very sad book,and a sad ending to a marriage of a loving couple.
It was fascinating and enlightening to learn with her as she reveals to us what that culture is like,as she was forced to learn. The description of her marriage ceremony,with her sitting out in the limo while a male stand-in takes her place at the "male-only" marriage ceremony, is 'freaky' and makes one understand how these fanatics(many just hormone raging teens)that segregate the sexes through toddler-age,are so easily swayed to become martyrs of terrorism,being taught in Islam that they will get all those virgins in Paradise if they die a martyr in jihad!
Her book was also the first account I was exposed to,telling how several Bin Ladin family members were in America on 9/11 and that even though our own planes were grounded,they were allowed to fly out!
I think this book must have been very painful for her to write,and it also took much courage.I am thankful that she shared her painful eye-opening experience,as an outsider of that culture,and for her warnings to the west. Carmen God Bless You and Your Girls.
Summary of Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
She Married Osama Bin Laden's Brother. Now She Dares to Tell Her Story. This international bestseller gives the shocking account of what it's like to be a woman-even a wealthy woman from a privileged family-in Saudi Arabia today. In an unprecedented act, Carmen Bin Ladin dares to throw off the veil that conceals one of the most powerful, secretive, and repressive countries in the world-and the Bin Laden family's role within it.Memoirs Books
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