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From the Jerusalem Post:
- Saudi "morality Police" Chief Says Ban On Women Driving Not Part Of Sharia
Yeah, right, that's what he says: Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving is not mandated by any text in Sharia, the Islamic legal code which forms the basis for most Saudi law, the head of its morality police told Reuters on Thursday. Sheikh Abdulatif...
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Emirates 24/7 Saudi police arrest sorceress with 98 victims By StaffPublished Tuesday, April 05, 2011 Saudi Arabia’s feared Islamic police arrested a sorceress who had practiced witchcraft on 98 victims, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Members of the...
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New York Daily News Saudi court punishes group of men and women for mingling at a party with lashings, prison time In Saudi Arabia, fighting for your right to party could get you beaten and thrown in jail. A group of four men and 11 women were convicted...
- A Rabbi, A Priest And An Imam Walk Into A Bar...
Saudis to teach human rights to religious police ABU DHABI -- Saudi Arabia is providing training for its controversial religious police on how to relate with diplomats and non-Muslims. Officials said the Saudi Foreign Ministry would sponsor...
- Saudi Arabia Crosses Out The Letter X
Youssef Ibrahim reports in the NY Sun that the House of Saud may soon be banning the letter X from use because it resembles the mother of all banned religious symbols in the oil kingdom: the cross. The new development came with the issuing of another...
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Saudi Woman Beats The Hell Out Of Virtue Cop
From the Jerusalem Post:
When a Saudi religious policeman sauntered about an amusement park in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Al-Mubarraz looking for unmarried couples illegally socializing, he probably wasn’t expecting much opposition.
But when he approached a young, 20-something couple meandering through the park together, he received an unprecedented whooping.
A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Saudi religious police known locally as the Hai’a, asked the couple to confirm their identities and relationship to one another, as it is a crime in Saudi Arabia for unmarried men and women to mix.
For unknown reasons, the young man collapsed upon being questioned by the cop.
According to the Saudi daily Okaz, the woman then allegedly laid into the religious policeman, punching him repeatedly, and leaving him to be taken to the hospital with bruises across his body and face.
- Saudi "morality Police" Chief Says Ban On Women Driving Not Part Of Sharia
Yeah, right, that's what he says: Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving is not mandated by any text in Sharia, the Islamic legal code which forms the basis for most Saudi law, the head of its morality police told Reuters on Thursday. Sheikh Abdulatif...
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Emirates 24/7 Saudi police arrest sorceress with 98 victims By StaffPublished Tuesday, April 05, 2011 Saudi Arabia’s feared Islamic police arrested a sorceress who had practiced witchcraft on 98 victims, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Members of the...
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New York Daily News Saudi court punishes group of men and women for mingling at a party with lashings, prison time In Saudi Arabia, fighting for your right to party could get you beaten and thrown in jail. A group of four men and 11 women were convicted...
- A Rabbi, A Priest And An Imam Walk Into A Bar...
Saudis to teach human rights to religious police ABU DHABI -- Saudi Arabia is providing training for its controversial religious police on how to relate with diplomats and non-Muslims. Officials said the Saudi Foreign Ministry would sponsor...
- Saudi Arabia Crosses Out The Letter X
Youssef Ibrahim reports in the NY Sun that the House of Saud may soon be banning the letter X from use because it resembles the mother of all banned religious symbols in the oil kingdom: the cross. The new development came with the issuing of another...