Saudi men arrested for 'flirting' (loud music, indecent clothes,dancing to woo ladies @ Mecca mall)

The BBC ^ | February 23, 2008

[Stoat]

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.....

[Stoat]

FYI

[LilAngel]

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice? And they expect us to take them seriously?

[expatguy]

This is the enemy.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[Jet Jaguar]

Singapore has a Ministry of Censorship.

I thought, well, at least they aren’t trying to be PC by calling it something else.

[Stoat]

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.

[ovrtaxt]

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!

[sport]

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.

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump to your blog postings.

http://laotze.blogspot.com/

Obama On Indonesian Television - Part 2 etc.

[Allegra]

How DARE anybody try to have any fun in Saudi Arabia???

OFF with their HEADS!!

[daku]

hollywood should make an arab footloose.

great fun till the heads begin to roll

on second thought, this has win all over it

[TLEIBY308]

This is why they go nuts when they come tu the USA.

[Nachoman]

Muslims make the Puritans look like party animals.

[LilAngel]

They do seem to get rather annoyed when we joke about them in cartoons and such. But how can we avoid it?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

If this keeps up, the city will become a Mecca for T and A, thumbs and ankles.

[Stoat]

Here's the original Saudi Gazette story:

The Saudi Gazette INTERNET EDITION - 57 Men Nabbed for Flirting

57 Men Nabbed for Flirting

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.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

They’re about 30 years behind the US in social evolution

30 years? Try about 1200.

[ovrtaxt]

Well, I meant pop culture, not religion- but you’re right!

[Popman]

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.

[LilAngel]

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.