When Nasser used to mock the occasional bursts of piety by King Husayn (pronounced Khuuuusayn by Shimon Peres), he used to refer to his "bouts of piety." Today, I read in Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat that the Ministry of Awqaf and "Islamic holy sites and affairs"--I swear there is such a ministry in the kingdom that is referred to as "secular" in the Western press--has called for prayers of rain to deal with the drought in the kingdom. King PlayStation himself prayed with the crowd in `Aqabah. Two minutes after his prayer, it snowed in the kingdom.