Saudi-Born Singer Lashes Out Against Arab Nations on the Refugee Crisis

November 2, 2015November 2, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Give props to Shams Bandar, a Saudi-born singer who has renounced her Saudi and Kuwaiti citizenship over the way countries in the region have treated refugees. I quote: “What can these wretched [refugees] do with their Arab citizenship?…All the Arab countries have closed their borders to them…Why do we pin all our problems on the West? For 1,400 years we have been slaughtering one another, just because one of us prays one way and another prays a different way.”

Bold stuff. Watch the whole interview from Egyptian Dream TV.

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