Adnan and some various statements... on July 4th.

Various statements and my impressions from Adnan:

He cares about Arabic culture.  Many Arabs are English speaking and there are little taxes in Arabic Countries.

UAE wants peace, no killing, and he feels sad for killing.

War hurts small children who then don’t have house, or can eat, and it’s very sad.

He likes countries with princes and kings. In the UAE, you can go to princes and king – like a big family and ask for help.  And all the citizens are like children to the king.  There are no bad kings right now – can you name a bad king?  (I couldn’t because I haven’t really followed the kings of the planet.)

In general, the father is in control of the family.  This despite for the story that when asked who he cared for most, it was his mother – this was asked three times and on the fourth time, it was the father.  Sorta like 75% pro mother, 25% pro father.

In Saudi Arabia, you may not like everything, just like in the US.  They need progress but this takes 300 years in order to change the people.

I needed to use the word “Subtle” and we had a bit of difficulty getting there.  I had one of those sex questions and it went like this: I am not asking if you are attracted to males, but since you don’t see other men naked in the culture, are you at all curious to see another penis.  We could never really clarify my question and I never got an answer.

Adnan is against the legalization of marijuana – it’s not good, like a cancer.  You open the door to the future for worse and worse behavior.  I’m a bit conflicted over the issue myself.  Clearly he is somehow aware of what is going on in the US.
He notes the media manipulates us.

We talked here for one hour thirteen minutes and he was very animated as before.

He is not into music, though his friends are.

As we speak, his father and two sisters were in Mecca.

We hadn’t talked for a while.  He was busy the last few days he tells me and wasn’t free to talk.  Sweet of him to note.  I tell him he is wonderful person and he seemed either shy about this statement or suspicious.  I had a sort of non response.  I’m not sure why.

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Another day we talk for about 5 minutes, the family was gathering in the living room and his father was calling him.  Today it appears that the whole family with spouses of sister/brother and 5 grand children were all together.  Adnan bursts out about how much he loves little children and how much the time just flies when he is around them.  No doubt he will make a sweet father… He asks if I like children and I tell him I really do!  I hadn't noticed the full beard before and he tells me that all young Arabs by the age of 16 have them.