Saudi Arabian "Virtue Police" Push "Immodest" Girls Into Burning Building

Israel National News.com ^ | 3/1/5/02 | Staff Writer

[veronica]

"Saudi Arabia's religious police are reported to have forced schoolgirls back into a blazing building because they were not wearing Islamic headscarves and black robes."

So begins a report today by England's Telegraph Group Ltd., publishers of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.

The report quotes Saudi newspapers to the effect that scuffles broke out between firemen and members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice when the latter tried to keep the girls inside a burning school in Mecca.

Fifteen girls were killed as they stampeded to escape from the blazing building in the holy Muslim city. The Telegraph reported that a civil defense officer said that he saw three members of the religious police "beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya."

Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdullah clarified last night that his latest peace proposal includes "normalized relations," and not merely peace, between the entire Arab world and Israel. Israel must merely withdraw to the pre-1967 lines, including from the Temple Mount, the Old City of Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley, the cities of Maaleh Adumim, Ariel, and Efrat (Gush Etzion), and all of Judea, Samaria, Gaza, and the Golan.

[FormerLib]

I wonder how many Talibatheist posters will try to connect this to conservative Christians in America. They're usually good for two or three such bits.

[Mixer]

The Telegraph reported that a civil defense officer said that he saw three members of the religious police "beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya."

Imagine if the muslims were not a peaceful nation?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Just keep repeating to yourself, "Islam is peace" and pretty soon you might even begin to believe it.

[Wm Bach]

What a beautiful people and a beautiful culture! Surely the Islamic nations represent heaven on earth. I would move there, but I have to re-arrange my sock drawer.

[veronica]

FYI.

[sheik yerbouty]

The Saudi authorities are downright demonic. They care so little for their children that they would watch them burn alive!

[dighton]

See also:

15 girls die as zealots 'drive them into blaze'

[veronica]

Bump.

[neutrino]

Interesting, isn't it? If one of us were to suggest doing what the Saudi "virtue police" did, we'd be roundly criticized. But they do it to their own children and the silence is notable.

[FreePaul]

Is this the result of inbreeding in Saudi Arabia? These comission members are certainly certifiably insane. Since there seem to be so many there must be something in the country causing it.

[GuillermoX]

Yes, of course! I see no difference at all. Remember the Crusades!

(but forget the 1.5 million Armenian and Persian Christians slaughtered by mohammedans in 1915-1916. Did Clinton mention this in his Georgetown "The West is to blame for terrorism" speech?)

[veronica]

Thanks for posting this -- what chances do you think there are of U.S. media covering this appalling atrocity?

Slim and none and slim just left town...

[Vladiator]

I think those guys used to post here a lot.

[a_witness]

I don't think you want to miss this thread.

Do you think any of this will change Bush/Powell's mind ?

They are aligned with the House of Saud despite the fact so many of the Islamic terrorists attacked our nation.

As Bush lied to us, "Islam is a religion of peace."

[veronica]

I keep forgetting to ping you...will do so in future.

[GuillermoX]

Any country with a "Commission to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice" (which involves who knows how many hundreds of thousands of enforcers) is wacko.