World's Most Spiteful Creds
- Thread starter Gavin
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The Israel thing isn't as bad as people think it is. Well, having a stamp anyway. Having an Israeli passport is a whole different matter.
With a stamp, you would have serious issues in places like Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait etc. Apparently Saudi Arabia is fine these days, though you'd never actually get a tourist Visa in the first place.
Anyway, you can request that they don't stamp your passport in Israel and they'll do it on a slip of paper instead. I had mine stamped because I was due for a new passport anyway and had no plans to be in a Muslim country prior to getting it.
Israel itself doesn't ban anyone with visitor stamps from Muslim countries as far as I'm aware, but they'll pick up on it at immigration. They don't seem to care when people are coming in, but when you're leaving, you get scrutinised more closely. I had to answer the same questions with three different people when they saw that I'd been to Jordan and Malaysia - Israeli passport holders aren't even allowed into Malaysia at all - and it was a bit intense, but this was all done while queuing for immigration desks rather than being pulled aside.
With a stamp, you would have serious issues in places like Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait etc. Apparently Saudi Arabia is fine these days, though you'd never actually get a tourist Visa in the first place.
Anyway, you can request that they don't stamp your passport in Israel and they'll do it on a slip of paper instead. I had mine stamped because I was due for a new passport anyway and had no plans to be in a Muslim country prior to getting it.
Israel itself doesn't ban anyone with visitor stamps from Muslim countries as far as I'm aware, but they'll pick up on it at immigration. They don't seem to care when people are coming in, but when you're leaving, you get scrutinised more closely. I had to answer the same questions with three different people when they saw that I'd been to Jordan and Malaysia - Israeli passport holders aren't even allowed into Malaysia at all - and it was a bit intense, but this was all done while queuing for immigration desks rather than being pulled aside.
Jake said:
The one in Mecca is just extra spiteful though. You could potentially work in Saudi and get the others, but wouldn't be allowed anywhere near the Mecca cred. You'd literally need to convert to Islam and get letters from Imams and s**t. It's probably not worth quite that much effort for a single-helix kiddy cred.
I very briefly, though not remotely seriously, looked into working there for maybe a year to save some cash since there was a demand for English teachers at the time, it pays well and there's f**k all tax, but there's just no way I'd put myself through living somewhere so f**king backwards even for a year.