Once we had flying over Sanaa airspace, we're cleared to "Al Baha, Bravo Sierra Alpha", when it is cleared should be "Bravo HOTEL Alpha". I replied back in on the radio to reconfirm, and this Arab traffic controller had the audacity to say he is right and why I need to judge his calls. Checking back on "Bravo Sierra Alpha" which is BSA (not BHA, which is the right identifier for Al Baha), BSA takes the route to Basra which is crossing into the no-fly zone of Iraq. The plane would have been torn to pieces by artillery before we even reach the goddamned place! Even after reconfirming on the radio, in public purview by other airlines out there, the air traffic controller still refuse to admit he is wrong, and so goddamned sure of himself that he had cleared us to the right place.

I think I dont have to mention the rudeness and blatant disregard to the law when it comes to the conduct of Arabs in this country alone. Cutting lines at taxi stand, going straight to the counter to buy food when there are others waiting to get theirs, are just examples of their behaviour. What I found out later is that they are used to being treated like that, like kings, in their country and expect to be treated the same here.

Sorry, but my view on Saudi Arabia is that the country is more of a regressive nature than anything resembling a modern country. The whole law structure is so skewed that women has no basic rights there other than being objects of satisfaction and means of working them to the ground. They are a "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" after all, and the term "kingdom" here is really the literal mean. Servants are basically slaves, and those who are on the upper tier, are free to work their way around any semblance of a law they have there, to the way they see fit.