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Saudi men arrested for 'flirting' (loud music, indecent clothes,dancing to woo ladies @ Mecca mall)
The BBC ^
| February 23, 2008
Posted on 02/23/2008 4:45:00 AM PST by Stoat
Saudi men arrested for 'flirting'
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Relations between the sexes outside marriage is against the law
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Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have begun investigating 57 young men who were arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca.The men are accused of wearing indecent clothes, playing loud music and dancing in order to attract the attention of girls, the Saudi Gazette reported. They were arrested following a request of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The mutaween enforce Saudi Arabia's conservative brand of Islam, Wahhabism. Earlier in the month, the authorities enforced a ban on the sale of red roses and other symbols used in many countries to mark Valentine's Day. The ban is partly because of the connection with a "pagan Christian holiday", and also because the festival itself is seen as encouraging relations between the sexes outside marriage, punishable by law in the kingdom. The Prosecution and Investigation Commission said it had received reports of such "bad" behaviour by 57 young men at a number of shopping centres in the holy city of Mecca, the Saudi Gazette said. The guardians of some of the men defended their actions, however, saying they would regularly get together at the weekend to have fun without ever violating laws governing the segregation of the sexes, it added. |
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flirting; islam; islamofascism; islamofascists; ksa; saudiarabia; saudimallrats; viceandvirtue
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The Prosecution and Investigation Commission said it had received reports of such "bad" behaviour by 57 young men at a number of shopping centres in the holy city of Mecca, the Saudi Gazette said. It has yet to be determined how many women will be beheaded as punishment for these unspeakable acts.....
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posted on
02/23/2008 4:45:03 AM PST
by
Stoat
To: Slings and Arrows; Xenalyte
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posted on
02/23/2008 4:48:47 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice? And they expect us to take them seriously?
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posted on
02/23/2008 4:52:27 AM PST
by
LilAngel
(FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
To: Stoat
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posted on
02/23/2008 4:54:22 AM PST
by
expatguy
("An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - New & Improved - Now with Search)
To: LilAngel
Singapore has a Ministry of Censorship.
I thought, well, at least they aren’t trying to be PC by calling it something else.
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posted on
02/23/2008 4:56:16 AM PST
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: LilAngel
And they expect us to take them seriously?I haven't really been given the impression that they particularly care as to whether the West takes them seriously or not; unfortunately the Saudis and those within the kingdom's borders are forced to do so or to suffer unspeakably and breathtakingly brutal consequences.
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posted on
02/23/2008 4:56:39 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
I see a business oppotunity.
We’ll bottle some cinammon oil, label it “Spanish Fly”, and sell them for $5000 a bottle. (They’ve got the bux)
They’re about 30 years behind the US in social evolution, they’ll fall for it!
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posted on
02/23/2008 4:59:36 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(Member of the irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.)
To: LilAngel
We don’t have to take them seriously.
We do not live there.
But if they want to keep their heads attached to their shoulders, they do.
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:00:02 AM PST
by
sport
To: expatguy
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:00:35 AM PST
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: Stoat
How DARE anybody try to have any fun in Saudi Arabia???
OFF with their HEADS!!
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:04:52 AM PST
by
Allegra
(Posting without being logged on since 2001)
To: Allegra
hollywood should make an arab footloose.
great fun till the heads begin to roll
on second thought, this has win all over it
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:10:01 AM PST
by
daku
("My dream continues with ferocity, thank you.")
To: Allegra
This is why they go nuts when they come tu the USA.
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:15:23 AM PST
by
TLEIBY308
(I AM PRO CHOICE,I BELEIVE EVERYONE SHOULD CARRY WHAT EVER GUN THEY CHOOSE)
To: Stoat
Muslims make the Puritans look like party animals.
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:15:41 AM PST
by
Nachoman
(My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
To: Stoat
They do seem to get rather annoyed when we joke about them in cartoons and such. But how can we avoid it?
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:16:20 AM PST
by
LilAngel
(FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
To: Stoat
If this keeps up, the city will become a Mecca for T and A, thumbs and ankles.
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:19:21 AM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: All
Here's the original Saudi Gazette story:
The Saudi Gazette INTERNET EDITION - 57 Men Nabbed for Flirting
57 Men Nabbed for Flirting |
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 |
By Salman Al-Solami MAKKAH - Prosecution and Investigation Commission will start investigating on Saturday 57 young men arrested here by police for allegedly flirting with girls at local malls. The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice summoned the police to make the arrests Thursday night. The Commission had received reports of their "bad" behavior at different malls in Makkah. The young men were accused of wearing indecent clothes and playing loud music and dancing to it to attract girls' attention. A source at the Commission said that 20 of its staffers and policemen were dispatched to the troubled areas and police arrested the young men and transferred them to the Al-Mansour Police Station. None of them resisted arrest, the source said. The source added that those found innocent upon investigation would be released. The others would be referred to a court of law. Guardians of some of the young men came to their defense, saying that the young men would usually get together on the weekend to have fun without violating the social code of conduct by imposing themselves on the girls at the malls. |
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:21:08 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: ovrtaxt
Theyre about 30 years behind the US in social evolution
30 years? Try about 1200.
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:23:22 AM PST
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Bi-partisanship: Democrats and RINOs working together to screw up the country)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Well, I meant pop culture, not religion- but you’re right!
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:24:29 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(Member of the irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.)
To: LilAngel
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice? And they expect us to take them seriously?They could care less about us evil infidels.
OTOH, the citizens, err, I mean subjects of SA Kingdom take them very seriously.
They don't want to loss their heads over it, literally.
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:24:48 AM PST
by
Popman
(Gold Standard: Trying to squeeze a 50 lb economy back into a 5 lb bag)
To: sport
I see a distinction between taking them seriously, and understanding the seriousness of the situation. It’s a serious situation, no doubt. But how can they expect not to be immortalised in cartoons when they act like this? They are jokes.
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posted on
02/23/2008 5:25:55 AM PST
by
LilAngel
(FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
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