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20 face lash, prison for dancing in Saudi Arabia
MSNBC.com ^
| 02/044/07
| AP
Posted on 02/05/2007 7:33:58 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced, a newspaper reported Sunday. The defendants were among 433 foreigners, including some 240 women, arrested by the kingdom's religious police for attending the party in Jiddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz said. It did not identify the foreigners, give their nationalities or say when the party took place. Judge Saud al-Boushi sentenced the 20 to prison terms of three to four months and ordered them to receive an unspecified number of lashes, the newspaper said. They have the right to appeal, it added.
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To: MotleyGirl70
"You'll have a fair trial, and then you'll be whipped."
Well, I guess students can rule out spring break in Jiddah.
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:36:14 AM PST
by
RexBeach
To: MotleyGirl70
There are no words that can adequately explain that part of the world.
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:36:32 AM PST
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: MotleyGirl70
whoa...would a Su[per Bowl Party be "arranging for an impudent party???"
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:37:26 AM PST
by
Recovering Ex-hippie
(Oprah is a phony money grubbing self centered sleeze ..Now we see how you made your 1.5 Billion!!)
To: MotleyGirl70
"433 foreigners, including some 240 women...for attending the party in Jiddah"
That's quite a party
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:37:45 AM PST
by
nuconvert
([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
To: MotleyGirl70
When you enter a foreign country you subject yourself to it's laws. Even if those laws are ridiculous.
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:38:41 AM PST
by
contemplator
(Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
To: nuconvert
Will they lose their gun rights when they return to the USA as convicted felons?
To: MotleyGirl70
Why don't Arabs have sex standing up?
Someone might think they were dancing.
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:39:55 AM PST
by
CholeraJoe
(Spork weasels ain't afraid of nuthin' but running out of sardines.)
To: MotleyGirl70
Maybe we can send "Code Pink" there.
To: caver
There are no words that can adequately explain that part of the world.
...and these are supposedly our "allies" in the region.
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:41:32 AM PST
by
Old_Mil
(http://www.gohunter08.com/)
To: MotleyGirl70
What did those invitations to that party SAY?
Jiddah. Home of the hottest parties in Saudi Arabia.
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:42:29 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(It is a lot easier to honor a dead prophet, than tolerate a live one.)
To: caver
They have their laws and customs, we have ours.
Which is worse - banning alcohol and parties in Saudi or thousands of teenagers having drunken, public, sex at spring break?
You choose, they are both moral extremes.
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:43:02 AM PST
by
Wil H
To: MotleyGirl70
In the late 60's early 70's there used to be a very blunt ad on TV about traveling outside of the U.S. The message went something like "Their country, their laws" and was directed to our drug abusing youth.
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:43:23 AM PST
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: MotleyGirl70
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:44:16 AM PST
by
null and void
(<----- Shocked and odd...)
To: MotleyGirl70; SmithL
To: nuconvert
If they are into S & M and such the party is still going for them...
/sarc
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:45:14 AM PST
by
Loud Mime
(“War’s very object is victory, not prolonged indecision." Gen Douglas Mac Arthur)
To: contemplator
Yep. Which is why I stay within U.S. borders.
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:46:56 AM PST
by
LIConFem
To: MotleyGirl70
It may seem foolish to conservatives, but the reason I like to see this sort of news published is that it makes the Leftie Loonies squirm. They hate President Bush, they suffer for the Palestinian cause, the poor Muslims have to live in fear, etc. Then something like this makes it into the papers and the bleeding hearts don't have much to say.
I'm sending this to my sisters. They will skip right over the whipping and imprisonment parts and go straight to the immorality of this war. How do you stop three Liberal idiots in their tracks? Burkas, genital mutilation of little girls, and now this...dancing.
The Muslims have "A League of Their Own". There is no laughing and dancing in Islam!
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:46:58 AM PST
by
ishabibble
(ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
To: MotleyGirl70
This is coming from the AP? What, are they thinking this is something unusual? Similar "justice" is meted out all the time over there. Someone at the AP must have picked his/her head up off the desk for a change, but let's not get our hopes up.
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:48:21 AM PST
by
Melinda
To: MotleyGirl70
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posted on
02/05/2007 7:48:21 AM PST
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(A Muslim soldier can never be loyal to a non-Muslim commander.)
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