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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Raven: Princess: A true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia

A (hoax) novel by Jean Sasson


Publication Date: March 1, 2001 
Publisher: Windsor-Brooke Books
Pages: 233
Targeted Audience: Stupid/Easily Manipulated people

Summary: Sultana is a Saudi Arabian princess, a woman born to fabulous, uncountable wealth. She has four mansions on three continents, her own private jet, glittering jewels, designer dresses galore. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. She has no freedom, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Hidden behind her black floor-length veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, her sons, and her country.Sultana is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the king. For the sake of her daughters, she has decided to take the risk of speaking out about the life of women in her country, regardless of their rank. She must hide her identity for fear that the religous leaders in her country would call for her death to punish her honesty. Only a woman in her position could possibly hope to escape from being revealed and punished, despite her cloak and anonymity.Sultana tells of her own life, from her turbulent childhood to her arranged marriage--a happy one until her husband decided to displace her by taking a second wife--and of the lives of her sisters, her friends and her servants. Although they share affection, confidences and an easy camaraderie within the confines of the women's quarters, they also share a history of appaling oppressions, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations; thirteen-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age, young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the "women's room," a padded, windowless cell where women are confined with neither light nor conversation until death claims them.By speaking out, Sultana risks bringing the wrath of the Saudi establishment upon her head and te heads of her children. But by telling her story to Jean Sasson, Sultana has allowed us to see beyond the veils of this secret society, to the heart of a nation where sex, money, and power reign supreme.


Okay, I might be way too harsh with this review but that's only because I have never hated a book more than this one right here. So here goes my rant. 

This book is said to be about Sultana (Not real name) who is a Saudi Princess and even though she belongs to the royal family she is bound by strict rules that define that women are only used for sexual relief and to bear the children for their husbands. And how they are enslaved by their fathers, husbands and brothers. 

First of all, what kind of a person who belongs to a family of famous people would want such intimidate details of her life story (which is different than others, obviously!) to be written by a foreign author and available for publish in abroad? Secondly, how is it possible that when such details were put in a book for everyone to read, how did her family not find it out? 

The facts in the book are obvious enough for anyone to understand that it's fake. 

Fact #1: She said that she wasn't allowed to go into the mosque. Being a Saudi Princess she should have known that Mosques have a separate section for women. 

Fact #2: It's said that women were forced to marry after puberty. I agree that women were (and in some places still are) being made to marry men right after maturation. But it was to avoid going around and having sex before marriage as doing that is unlawful in Islam. But but but I have heard that it's mentioned in the Quran (the holy book of Muslims) that it is the woman who gets to decide when and whom she wants to marry. Remember that it's always the humans who twist rules to fit their requirement.

Fact #3: Woman are given the highest respect in Islam. Women are told to cover themselves so as not to attract the attention of unwanted men but men are not even allowed to look at them with bad intentions as thinking of a bad deed is equal to doing one. And to support this fact, a quote from the Quran itself (translated of course): He who is best to his wife is the best man among you. (However, I agree that polygamy is allowed in Islam but I don't think that anybody in the modern generation follows that as everyone knows that it's difficult enough to handle the expenses and lectures of one woman)

Fact #4: Also a father who educates a minimum of three daughters has gained a palace in Heaven. This is another thing from the holy book that shows that education is not prerogative to women/girls.

Fact #5: There is a story kind of thing that I have heard. It's about this man who asks the prophet "Who is the one worthy of more respect after Allah (The god worshiped by Muslims)? and the prophet says "Your mother".  The man asks one again "Who after that?" and the prophet says "Your mother". Once again the man asks "And who after that?" and the prophet says the same thing again. For the last time the man asks "Who after that?" and then the prophet says "Your father".
This does not mean that Fathers are not respected enough, they are but it's just that Mothers are held higher.

There are many facts that I can go on about (like the one about piercing the vagina or something which is absolutely stupid and I think that the author has just made it up) but I just wanted to tell you guys that anyone who believes in this book and let's themselves be manipulated by it, Islam is not a bad religion. It has given it's followers many rules to follow but it's for their own advantage. Like listening to music and watching movies is not allowed in Islam, it's not forbidden but it's said so as to avoid any thing that takes one away from worshiping their God. I think it's the same for Protestants (I heard that like Muslims they too are supposed to cover their heads, not drink, not have sex before marriage, not worship images or idols of God, not listen to music or watch movies and not wear gold).

I accept that women are oppressed but anyone would be fool to believe that Islam is a religion that promotes it. Women of every religion are oppressed by men of different religions. Just because one man from one particular religion does so does not mean that every man of that religion does it. The same goes for Terrorism.

So this is what I had to say about this book. Since I hate this one so much I don't think I will be reading the other two that follow this one. 

And I won't be rating this one since I have nothing to give it, but I won't be stopping you from reading it either. You can read it for yourself and understand that it's the biggest hoax ever.

Lots of hatred for the author but love and pasta for you guys,
Raven

13 comments:

  1. Google Lagauche Is Right Article 841

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    1. no need to Google it, I provided the Web site with all of the details that readers must see:
      http://www.jeansasson.com/lawsuit/.

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    2. Monika, I read your two books (Cinderella in Arabia and The Phoney Princess). Never in the history of the publishing world has one woman had so many terrible things happen to her. To have three bestselling authors to steal your books and then write bestselling books from them? That is just unimaginable. Then, to have all those cheating attorneys in New York trying to cheat you too! I got so involved in your story. I was most offended though, by the lawyers. Then a judge! Then the president of the United States. OMG! Just unbelievable that all these people conspired against you! No wonder you are angry!
      To those who are interested in hiring an attorney, ever, take heed from this poor Monika Adsani who had so many attorneys trying to harm her!
      I quote: “I was not prepared to listen to any further proposals she might have had in mind and said, A proposed monies, Mrs Zwir, I aim to have everything which is rightfully my property reimbursed. I want my work and the money they have made with my work fully returned to me….I felt very strongly that Mrs Szirn was not rooting out for me at all but was looking out, dare I say it, for my opponents.”
      Then she has another terrible incident with yet another attorney, but she sets him straight! Go Monika! And, I quote, “So Mr. Vanucci, please tell us, is your law firm in bed with the enemy, sir?”
      And yet then another firm tries to steal her material but yet do not want to represent her: “He listened, not denying that such a document had been left in his firm’s possession, and told us to leave and call in the morning; however, he forbade me from coming back or ever entering his law firm again. Don’t you come back! He warned. He turned to walk away without so much as a goodbye.”
      But Monika was not going to let him get away with it, instead, she plotted her revenge on the law firm.” …I called Mr. Rudder, my son’s attorney in WDC, who knew of my case. After explaining my situation I laid my plan open to him, which was as follows. I was going to send Ashley to a hardware store to buy a chain and lock. What if I would chain myself to the law firm’s glass swing door handles..”
      Monika was advised not to do so or she might end up in jail with dirty drug users or prostitutes. So instead she pursued a complaint against the law firm but all her letters she sent to the Disciplinary Division for attorneys was returned.

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    3. Monika, I feel so badly for your situation. After reading your two books, I am appalled that three authors have managed to find your manuscript (even before it was every published) and used it to write three published books!
      That Sylvia Kennedy had her nerve. Not only did she steal your manuscript to give to Deborah Moggach to write her bestselling book STOLEN about Pakistan, but then she used it afterward to write her own travel book about Morocco! Then, another writer in the United States got her hands on it to write about Saudi Arabia!
      What a sad situation for you. I hope by now that all three of these women are sorry for what they did.
      Then, as you say, the judge was in league with the big name publishers and she got after you too! What a nightmare! You have my sympathy! But at least you have finally published both your books. That is good.

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    4. If my books were not reality, nobody would bother to confront them. I am the victim here. Fraudulent hoax author Jean Sasson has let some of her bunches of "anonymous charlatans" her employees loose. They go with a fine tooth-combe through negative reviews and comments readers leave under Sasson's hoaxes like bloodhounds. Here we see them at work. Now they have infested Raven Bez. Everything I Monika Adsani have ever written about Jean Parks Sasson is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I LOVE RAVEN BEZ'es Princess review!!!!!!!

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    5. Sasson is almost 70 years old and has published the 4th princess book August 2014. It's childish stuff and juvenile written with no story except a lot of repeats from the her othe books. Endless squabbles between her children about nothing and the highlight of this hoax is wait for it: Sultana let it be known that one of her daughters is a lesbian!
      In reality a compleet impossibility amongst arab muslims let alone the Saudi Arabian Royal family.
      This book is further proof of the fact that "There is no Princess Sultana" If someone like me who knows the gulf states way of life inside out and speaks their arabic language goes onto Sason's webpage and reads the lies, lies and more lies writes there you can not but think: Sociopath.

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  2. This blog appears to be written by a longtime slanderer and stalker of the author Jean Sasson. Please visit Ms. Sasson's Web site which has all of this detailed and documented: http://www.jeansasson.com/lawsuit/.

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  3. Google THE PRINCESS SULTANA HOAX

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    1. Monika, I have heard that you claim THREE bestselling authors stole your unpublished manuscript. Can you alert readers as to the other two? I understand that you have accused the bestselling author Ms. Moggach of stealing your work as well as a successful author named Sylvia.

      Why do you make all of these crazed lies up about successful authors? Why do you claim that everyone is taking your writing?

      And just curious, but if you're such a successful writer why can't you get an agent?

      Why is your ONE book self-published? And why was your second self-published book withdrawn from Amazon.com and unavailable in stores?

      This all doesn't seem kosher to me. Explain, dear. Explain.

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  4. Monika, can't you sue Deborah Moggach in England for stealing your work? I would think that you would get lots of money from her because she is a wildly successful author. Why haven't you gone to England? Please explain.

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