Why is this strange? Arabia is a desert for god's sake! Food scarcity and harsh deserts of Arabia... do I really need to explain this?!
LOL
KSA (you must refer to Najd when you say Arabia) is one of the most diverse places on earth in terms of landscapes etc.. We have all landscapes and even several micro-climates and several hundred tropical islands alone in the Red Sea which has the second biggest coral reef in the world after the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and which has a abundance of life.
Lastly the only deserts in KSA (real ones) are the Rub' al-Khalil desert and the An Nafud near the borders of Jordan and Iraq and the latter is a rocky and hilly desert. Both which are largely uninhabited and which are actually partially highland. Otherwise KSA has the highest amount of oasis, thousands of wadis (valleys with permanent water), biggest palm groves in the world and Najd itself, which is the only "Arabia" is a highland itself (the word Najd means highland in Arabic) and even has mountain ranges.
In short, all desert regions in Arabia (Najd) are mountainous and not your typical barren desert as all the deserts in Iran, the Karakum Desert or elsewhere!
Some pictures of the "desert" in Najd or the province of Arabia:
Dune by
Alkassim, on Flickr
Hail City by
D7im Al D7im, on Flickr
2010-3-5 by
Akram Photo, on Flickr
وادي البردي-ينبع 2 by
asim mawwad -عاصم معوض, on Flickr
Lines to Reflection by
Abdulmajeed Al Juhani, on Flickr
Hail City by
D7im Al D7im, on Flickr
Aside from that this a trolling thread made by a Kazakh Nomad originally (Persians were originally nomads in current day Kazakhstan and Central Asia) and they first encountered real culture and civilizations when they met ancient Semitic people in Iraq who originally came from the Arabian Peninsula like all Semites before them. Today the only Semites are Arabs, Jews, Assyrians and various other smaller group of people and some people on the Horn of Africa but we all share the same ancestry as modern genetic have confirmed.
Oh, I see that he is banned. Probably the same Iranian troll (sounds like that Azeri Iranian - not even Persian, LOL) that is still bitter about the Arab conquest here 1400 years after and the cultural, social, linguistic (Persian is heavily influenced by Arabic and the Persian alphabet is based on the Arabic one) and most importantly religious. Even well-known cities such as Qom and Mashhad (the religious capitals of Iran) were founded by us Arabs.
Anyway I don't really expect Iranians of all people to know about all this. Wikipedia is not going to tell it after all.
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Regarding the topic then this is a dish mostly tied to PARTS of Najd and especially among the Bedouins that number less than 800.000 individuals in KSA of today. Most Saudis have not even tasted or seen such lizards in their life especially people from Hejaz (where over half of the population live), all the mountainous regions, including Hejaz, Southern KSA and Eastern KSA.
But I have heard that it tastes like chicken and it is a dish/meat like any other. People across the world eat much more "stranger" things. One just need to look at China/Korea/India or even Africa where monkey brain is a delicacy.
Or just France where snails and frogs are eaten widely and considered as luxury eating.
Anyway no Muslim, Arab or Semitic people should take such Iranians seriously.
It looks like they eat all parts of them. Anyway it is Chinese people after all they will eat nearly anything
. I believe that they even have a saying that Chinese "would eat everything that has 4 legs aside from a table.
and what a style to express their disagreement or you can say desperation over saudis....that they are making such kind of post?why don't they discuss clearly what do they want?if they have any issues to saudi policies they make is 'loud and clear'
