Posted on 09/24/2007 9:28:14 AM PDT by mojito
Yeah, guidance with a great big stick. I remember seeing these Mutawah around when I was in Saudi. They patrolled in pairs, carrying billy clubs. You wanted no part of them, I assure you.
I spent many months in the Kingdom while I was in the Air Force. I have many stories regarding these little thugs. I managed to stay out of their way but I suspect they are even less tolerant now than when I was there.
Bingo!
Just waiting for the cell phone video to appear on YouTube!
They left the oilfield workers (like me) alone, but I concur.
Those two women are probably dead meat. I’m so glad to be born where I was and that is in the USA.
Those two women are probably dead meat. I’m so glad to be born where I was and that is in the USA.
Salute to those two fearless women.
I worked in the oil fields as a kid in the summer and worked with a guy who I’ve wondered about all these years. I asked an Uncle recently who knew him too what happened to him. According to my Uncle he went to work in the oilfields in Saudi and was put to death by the Saudis. My Uncle didn’t know why. He was one mean SOB so I suspect he got into a fix that he couldn’t talk his way out of.
At some point...they are going to find three or four of these “cops” laying out in the street with shotgun wounds, and the government will realize that things are spiraling out of control. I don’t think the “cops” realize how many citizens really dislike them....well over 50 percent I’m guessing.
Oh, they do know, but they employed these turds to do this to control them -— bit like Hitler’s brown shirts, really, but better thought out.
The Saudi royal family is all about pacifying the masses. One of the way they do this is with the religious police.
This way, the relgious fanatics have a job, a hierarchy, goals, and a means to channel their religious furor.
Plus, the government has a list of nuts that they can monitor and cherry-pick.
It’s like riding a giant scorpian. The only way to keep from getting stung is to stay riding — and even then, you’ll get nailed a bit.
We trade intolerance, a lot of hedonism, and a little terrorism to keep oil flowing and to prevent a LOT of terrorism.
It’s a precarious balance, and one that the Michael Savage “ports” (to refer to a similar kingdom) crowd does not understand.
In the words of Ann Coultor, “invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity.”
You can own a shotgun in the Kingdom?
May the real God bless these brave women.
It seems to me that the women in these societies need to conspire to change things. Men have to sleep sometime. The women prepare the food. If a large number so men should suddenly become “missing”, they might begin to change their way of thinking. Ladies don’t have to remain submissive. It might take a few martyrs, but I think they could change things. African women generally are not afraid of their men.
My husband used to work with a guy who traveled to SA frequently - his company had an office there. Because he and the others in the office weren’t Muslim, they were supposed to lock their doors during prayer time so as to avoid a religious police visit. One time they forgot and were beaten for not praying when the police came in unannounced.
Islam is so tolerant though.
Saudi women fighting back against the thugs from the Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice?
BRB. Going outside a minute...
I have always wanted to see a flock of flying pigs...
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