Here for example is my visitor map for Saudi Arabia for that period.

Saudi Arabia only has a few major cities, Riyadh (pop. 4.5 million) in the middle and Jeddah (pop. 3.5 million) on the west coast. I never get any visitors from Medina or Mecca. You will also note the red dot northwest of Riyadh which is Hafar Al-Batin, a city of a little over 200,000 populated mostly by merchants and Bedouin. Hafar al-Batin's claim to fame is being a water stop for pilgrims from the East passing through to Mecca for Hajj. Back in 638 A.D. there was no water anywhere in the region so wells were dug to solve the problem. Today they are only holes and so Hafar al-Batin means holes of Al-Batin. Al-Batin, for those familiar with the 99 beautiful names of Allah means "The Hidden One" (Name #76).

Normally I would not consider a city of 200,000 as large, but it boasts a restaurant called Almuhaya which is open 24 hours a day, and that alone qualifies for the designation.

Saudi Arabia did not have big cities half a century ago. Riyadh in 1960 had about 50,000 people, now it is home to 4.5 million souls of which one-third are foreign residents. Saudi Arabia only has a population of 28 million of which 5.6 million are non-nationals. Since the Qur'an is the constitution of the country, if you are not Muslim you cannot be a citizen.

Only one in six has an Internet connection, so I'm surprised at the number of visitors I get from Saudi Arabia. It can't be my great Islamophobic articles that gets them here; my guess would be my archives of scantily-clad, sizzlingly-inviting, deliciously beautiful women who they would love to enslave is the real draw. For those who do not know, before slavery was abolished in the Kingdom in 1962, 20% of the population were slaves.

However, the slavery mentality still exists:

Human Rights Watch, Exploitation and Abuse of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia

"It was like a bad dream" is the way one migrant worker from the Philippines summed up his experiences in Saudi Arabia. Another worker, from Bangladesh, told us: "I slept many nights beside the road and spent many days without food. It was a painful life. I could not explain that life." A woman in a village in India, whose son was beheaded following a secret trial, could only say this: "We have no more tears, our tears have all dried up." She deferred to her husband to provide the account of their son’s imprisonment and execution in Jeddah.

It is undeniable that many foreigners employed in the kingdom, in jobs from the most menial to the highest skilled, have returned home with no complaints. But for the women and men who were subjected to abysmal and exploitative working conditions, sexual violence, and human rights abuses in the criminal justice system, Saudi Arabia represented a personal nightmare.
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To cite only a few examples, we interviewed migrant workers from Bangladesh who were forced to work ten to twelve hours a day, and sometimes throughout the night without overtime pay, repairing underground water pipes for the municipality of Tabuk. They were not paid salaries for the first two months and had to borrow money from compatriots to purchase food. An Indian migrant said that he was was paid $133 a month for working an average of sixteen hours daily in Ha’il. A migrant from the Philippines said that he worked sixteen to eighteen hours a day at a restaurant in Hofuf, leaving him so exhausted that, he told us, he “felt mentally retarded.” The employer of a migrant from Bangladesh, who worked as a butcher in Dammam, forced him to leave the kingdom with six months of his salary unpaid.

Women Migrant Workers
Some women workers that we interviewed were still traumatized from rape and sexual abuse at the hands of Saudi male employers, and could not narrate their accounts without anger or tears.

Strangely, up to 25% of the population are unemployed, so you may wonder why they need to import millions of foreign workers. Truth be told, most of the population are too stupid to have skills the private sector needs. Despite government welfare that brings the average per capita GDP to $23,200 (2007 est.), the majority of native Saudis lack decent education or technical training.

Some of you may think that if only the Saudis would spend more of our oil moneys on teaching their citizens the three R's instead of raping, killing and subjugating infidels then perhaps they wouldn't need so many foreign workers. But you would be wrong. Although Saudi women university graduates outnumber their male counterparts, they still account for only 5.4 percent of the workforce [Saudi-US Relations Information Service]. If they get married they would find it harder still to get a job; very few Muslim men would permit their wives to work with a male employer. Muslim men would prefer to hire non-Muslim females anyway. Think about it: the Qur'an permits slavery of non-Muslims and so it is perfectly acceptable to rape and abuse your infidel housekeeper. Those who have escaped and sought refuge with police have been forcibly returned to their employers [The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project].

In addition, Muslim employers would not be permitted to treat Muslim male employees the way they treat infidels. Beatings, lashings, forcing long hours, withholding of pay and food, these are the enjoyable aspects of being a Muslim boss. Why would any Muslim hire another Muslim?

The Prophet's Mosque in Medina
Photo Credit: Ali Mansuri

You may wonder where the hundreds of billions of dollars we pay the Saudis go to if not to normal, civilized education. Here's what they waste it on, a mosque larger than most US cities.

You read that right - a mosque larger than most US cities. The Medina Mosque can hold more than a million worshippers at a time. Only nine US cities are larger.

Before any reader points out that the Catholic Church also wastes money building churches, let's be honest, they also spend money on very good Catholic schools and Universities. I should mention that although I am a Jew I attended a Catholic school and I can tell you that one receives a damn good education in Catholic schools, certainly better than at US public schools. Some might think that if Islamic nations permitted Muslims to attend Catholic schools we wouldn't have repressed, uneducated, unemployed, radical Jihadists bent on destroying the world; but of course we would still have the well-to-do, educated, employed Jihadists (like the ones in the July 7 bombings in London) bent on destroying the world.

Muslims. Educate them - don't educate them - they're still Muslims.