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Posted on 02/06/2007 5:25:02 PM PST by abu afak
Riyadh - A Saudi Arabian court has convicted and sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison for attending a party where alcoholic drinks were served and men and women danced, a Saudi newspaper reported on Sunday.
The kingdom's religious police arrested 433 foreigners, including more than 240 women, for attending the "impudent" party in Jiddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz reported.
It did not identify the foreigners, give their nationalities or say when the party took place.
Judge Saud al-Boushi sentenced the 20 to three to four month in prison and ordered them to receive an unspecified number of lashes.
They have the right to appeal, the newspaper said.
The prosecutor general charged the 20 with "drinking, arranging for impudent party, mixed dancing and shooting a video for the party", Okaz said.
The newspaper said because of the large number of detainees, several judges were assigned to try them in groups.
The rest of the detainees are awaiting trial.
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam.
The religious police - a force resented by many Saudis for interfering in their personal lives - enjoys wide and unchallenged powers.
Its members roam public places, such as malls, markets and universities, looking for such infractions as unrelated men and women mingling in public, men skipping the five daily prayers and women with strands of hair showing from under their veil.
Well, when in Rome...
I'm speechless...and, oddly enough, so are the demonrats and the MSM.
"Its members roam public places, such as malls, markets and universities, looking for such infractions as unrelated men and women mingling in public, men skipping the five daily prayers and women with strands of hair showing from under their veil."
I would be so interesting watching them go crazy in a regular American mall. Most of them would have a stroke.
"Its members roam public places, such as malls, markets and universities, looking for such infractions as unrelated men and women mingling in public, men skipping the five daily prayers and women with strands of hair showing from under their veil."
I would be so interesting watching them go crazy in a regular American mall. Most of them would have a stroke.
"Its members roam public places, such as malls, markets and universities, looking for such infractions as unrelated men and women mingling in public, men skipping the five daily prayers and women with strands of hair showing from under their veil."
I would be so interesting watching them go crazy in a regular American mall. Most of them would have a stroke.
S&M happens every night in San Francisco too.
Islam murders and kill in the name of peace. Islam should be stopped.
Islam will never rest until everyone is dead.
Scr*w Islam and every Muslim who does not accept others as equal members of the human race.
They'd be thrashed and pummeled.
LOL!!!
If the Muslims only knew how much they were like the nut-jobs of S.F.
I certainly support the right of the Saudis to handle their internal affairs however they see fit. On the other hand, I have no idea why we put up with them and consider them to be allies. Frankly, the world would have been far better, and the muslims put in proper perspective, if during Gulf I we had hit the ground, invited them to a Luau and started digging a pit for the roast pig and asked for ice for our beer. If they did not want our help, with our people, respecting our customs, we could have let Sadam run through the Saudis like crap through a goose. Then, we could have gently asked Sadam to all the oil at about $10.00 per barrel, if he did not agree, then obviously he had to go.
Anyway, my view is the only reasonable use for a Wahabbist Saudi is as a test range.
It was the Saudi religious police who, not so long ago, forced girls back into a burning school or dormitory because they wren't dressed correctly. They died of course. What a charming religion.
Islam is a psychotic death cult. If Hitler were here today, he would convert to Islam. He'd feel right at home.
WE need $10 oil and quick.
You are right. I can't think of anything more vile than what they do in the name of religion.
Islam IS as Islam DOES!!
Viva el Cristo Rey!
And these are those "moderate" muslims that are our allies.
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"Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam."
One that openly discriminates against non-muslims.
Every muslim in good standing PRAYS to Saudi Arabia 5 times every day.
None of them ever speak out against the injustices in SA.
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