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Posted on 02/28/2008 6:20:56 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Professor Faces 180 Lashes for Having Coffee With Student
Thursday , February 28, 2008
A university professor allegedly caught in a Saudi-style honey trap has been sentenced to 180 lashes and eight months in jail — for having coffee with a girl.
The man, a prominent and well-respected Saudi teacher of psychology at Umm al-Qra University in the holy city of Mecca, was framed by the religious police after he angered some of their members at a training course, his lawyer said.
The academic has not been named by the local media, which have given his case wide coverage, but one senior Saudi journalist told The Times he was Dr. Abu Ruzaiz, a married man in his late 50s with children.
“He is highly respected and above-board. Nobody believes the religious police’s version of what happened. The whole of Jeddah (the main city near Mecca) is in uproar about this. Everyone believes he is innocent and was set up,” the journalist said.
Contact between unrelated men and women is strictly prohibited in the desert kingdom where religious police, commonly known as mutaween, patrol public places in teams to enforce their brand of ultra-conservative Islam.
Usually bearded and often wielding canes, they ensure women are not harassed, sexes do not mix and shops close for prayers. They are under the command of the Saudi Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
Abdullah Al-Sanousi, the academic’s lawyer, told local newspapers that his client had drawn the ire of some of the Commission’s staffers for speaking at length during a training session about how important it was for them to be polite to the public. Some of the trainees also wanted revenge because they had failed the course while others were not happy with their examination results.
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Since he was having coffee, he obviously can’t be a Mormon.
“...they ensure women are not harassed...”
What they ensure is that any women that ventures out of her house without a male family member to escort her is arrested, jailed, and often brutalized while in custody.
Okay?...so what happened to the girl? Has she been beheaded, yet?
Those Ayrabs don’t like Henry Beecher types much, do they.
Coffee never helped me too much with the ladies. Now, liquor...
180 lashes! He will not survive to serve his 6 months sentence. Muslems, followers of Allah, the “compassionate” show their strips again. ;-)
The Religion Of Peace strikes again- 180 times, it looks like.
Wake up America, or this insanity will be coming to a city near you. Don’t expect Pelosi, Osama Obama, or Hitlery to care. Then you have John McLame to apologize and make it all okay. When you need comfort, go to your nearest Liberal who will be busy whining, crying, and wringing their hands.
Hmmmm what would (did) Jesus do????
1But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11”No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
Next time remember, take tea and see!
ping
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
How could a muslim living in Mecca not know their asinine laws or the consequences?
btt
What they ensure is that any women that ventures out of her house without a male family member to escort her is arrested, jailed, and often brutalized while in custody.
As well as ensuring that young girls who escape burning buildings without their required "overcoats" get chivvied *back* into said conflagration, by whips and clubs, to die. In short, they are the worst thugs that the "Magic Kingdom" has to offer, and are accountable to none...
the infowarrior
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