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.
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DAMN Saudis don't mess around no wonder why they are tick off with the world ROFL
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Lemme see, chopping off limbs at places such as Riyadhs "Chop Chop Square" is OK.
Preaching about killing Jooos and granting victory to the mujahadeen to slaughter infidels is OK.
Molesting and turning your mail into a sex slave is OK (if she doesn't "submit", you simply accuse her of theft and since your words counts over hers, she's the one who ends up at Chop Chop Square one Friday afternoon)
Trading in slaves is OK.
Turning your backs when your own Royals are drunk at parties, paw women, and chase skirts until they pass out is OK.
Hypocritical swine.
These victims are most likely to be expatriates, there making that sandpit run because Saudis are either too lazy, backward, or retarded from all their inbreeding to do it themselves.
There's a reality TV show in this story.
Molesting and turning your maid into a sex slave is OK.
Do not accept invitations to celebrations where the party favors are cats-of-nine tails. That means no partying in Riyadh or San Francisco.
*rimshot*
There's usually plenty of partying going on in the KSA, along with the drinking and males and females mingling.
Besides the princes and jr Royals making fools of themselves, expats have their own parties within the many walled expatriate compounds.
The authorities generally turn a blind eye to this as long as locals do not attend.
LOL... plenty of those in the KSA too.
Islamic S&M..
Brothers in arms:
What?
WHAT?
Oh.
Thanks for the images. Hitler is alive and well and living in the Muslim Nation.
These folks must have been partying a little too hard somewhere public, like a hotel. Very foolish. In Riyadh, a fellow who ran a very popular Italian restaurant put out a flyer advertising a "St. Valentine's Day Special" The next day he was on the plane back to Napoli.
In my day, the religious police heat was off (to a certain extent) and they were much tougher on non-European guest-workers. As long as you kept it in the compound, the sky was pretty much the limit.
You can say that again.
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