Posted on 04/29/2008 3:41:31 PM PDT by forkinsocket
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A governor in northern Saudi Arabia has ordered authorities to punish men who flirt with women in public places by cutting their hair, local media said Tuesday.
Prince Fahd bin Badr, governor of the northern al-Jof region, ordered police to carry out the punishment after seeing a group of men with long hair pestering female students as they left school in the northern al-Qurayat province, Al-Hayat newspaper said.
It said the prince told a gathering at his palace in the northern town of Skaka on Sunday he has instructed police to apply the punishment to all youths guilty of flirting, including "the sons of senior military and civil officials."
"The decision doesn't include men who spend their free time in public places without hurting anyone," the paper quoted the prince as saying.
Saudi Arabia has long imposed a strict Islamic lifestyle in which men and women are segregated in public. That lifestyle is enforced by the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, a government body that runs the country's powerful religious police.
Its members patrol public places to make sure women are covered and not wearing make up, the sexes don't mingle, shops close five times a day for Muslim prayers and men go to the mosque and worship.
Many clergymen in this conservative Gulf country say men should not have long hair because Islam prohibits the sexes from emulating each other.
Sheik Mubarak al-Rushoud, head of the commission in al-Jof, told Al-Hayat the new punishment resulted from "the repeated pestering of women in souks and outside girls' schools."
He said Fahd has ordered that the punishment against the men "who emulate women" should be carried out at the scene of the infraction, according to the paper.
"The decision, however, doesn't include all men with long hair," al-Rushoud was quoted by Al-Hayat as saying.
I’m already bald. What then?
Make ‘em wear mullets!
That’ll learn ‘em!
Cut off his Mohammad?
It ranges anywhere from nothing to a pat on the back.
It said the prince told a gathering at his palace in the northern town of Skaka on Sunday he has instructed police to apply the punishment to all youths guilty of flirting, including "the sons of senior military and civil officials."
After his statement, the prince went home to his 33 wives and 45 girlfriends, had supper and two Viagra, and then continued his evening in his accustomed manner...
Hilhairious!
I remember when I was a kid. My older brother flung a frisbee & broke one of my mothers favorite lamps. When she got home, no one would fess up. She said if she didn't find out who did it, we were all getting crew cuts. Not a good look in 1974. I told my brother to tell her, but he said he WANTED a crew cut
Yes, I cop'd to it.....
Older brothers, sheesh!!
Stop pestering the women (they are for us old dudes) and go back to being angry and suicidal.
No flogging? I’m disappointed.
Cut their hair? Why not just cut their head off, either one.
If you are bald then you’re also a lech getting daily police haircuts.
“getting daily police haircuts’
oh, man, you found me out!
And if the women flirt back? What?
Stonings?
Lashes?
Forced rape?
Death?
Happily goats, sheep and camels have not been prohibited.
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