SINFUL PLEASURES: Risking the wrath of the religious police, a woman in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, loosens her veil to eat an ice cream HASAN JAMALI / AP
Posted on 08/03/2007 8:40:44 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
On a hot and humid evening two months ago, a dozen police cars rolled up to the simple Riyadh residence of Salman al-Huraisi, a 28-year-old hotel security guard. The policemen stormed into the house, breaking down doors, tearing through personal belongings and crying, "God is great!" Then they arrested al-Huraisi, along with 10 other family members. His alleged crime: consuming and selling beer.
Al-Huraisi's visitors were members of Saudi Arabia's religious police, a 10,000-strong force called the Commission for the Protection of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice. Back at the commission's local headquarters, events took a tragic turn: al-Huraisi died in custody, after allegedly being beaten. According to family lawyer Maher Al-Hamizi, the autopsy report said his skull was split open and an eye dislodged from its socket. Speaking to Time, the dead man's father, Mohammed al-Huraisi, a 73-year-old retired messenger, called for justice for the three commission members who he claims murdered his son. "I knew my son was dead due to the merciless beating," he says in a soft but defiant voice. "I demand that they be executed."
Fueled by the al-Huraisi case and other allegations of abuse, an unprecedented backlash is stirring against Saudi Arabia's feared religious police, or mutaween — Saudi slang meaning "pious ones." After years of acting as if it were above the law, the commission, which was established in 1926, now faces the prospect of having its considerable powers curbed. Prosecutors launched a high-profile investigation into al-Huraisi's death, and Saudi media reports say they are preparing to put one commission member on trial for his killing...
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SINFUL PLEASURES: Risking the wrath of the religious police, a woman in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, loosens her veil to eat an ice cream HASAN JAMALI / AP
Let’s all have a beer.
C’mon now, raise your glasses...
Wonder why the woman didn't just tell them he was her employee?
SSgt. Maupin in my prayers.
Sharia. Coming to a mall near you.
Why is there not a peep from all the so called “feminists” about the insane oppression of women in the middle East by the fruitcake Muslims?
Damn straight!
No, there isn’t. I’ve seen them hug and kiss right before and after they pull out knives on each other and fight.
So do I. All of them. Every wahabi stinking last one of them.
to the goons from the Commission for the Protection of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice there would have been no difference. A woman has no right to be in a vehicle with a man.
In Iran, women have recently established an all-female taxi business. With female drivers, they can get into a cab without being harrassed. But the women of Saudi can't even do that - they are not allowed to drive!
Are you sure that is a woman?
I'm guessing because they talk on their cell phones too much, just like here?
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