[JDGreen123]

Well we in America can relate to unruly youth and family breakdown. The question is whether this shows that militant Islam is loosing its grip on Saudi youth or that Saudi youth are headed into even more violent activities.

[Scythian]

Have you read an LA paper lately?

Broke a police car window and if someone wouldn't have heard the girls scream who knows what would have happened?

Take the Top 10 national stories from the US and it's a wonder we still exist as a civil society.

[Imal]

This article, with a few names changed, could very well describe just about anywhere in the world at one time or another.

It certainly provides an interesting insight.

Imal

[brat]

Very interesting. I'm concerned that the rage seemed to be directed towards women primarily. I don't think that's a result of lack of discipline, but more a hatred of women. Perhaps if the Saudis treated their women with respect this would not have happened. There is much to ponder here.

[monkeyshine]

If you steal they chop of your hand. If you riot because of your raging hormones, what should they chop?

[Free Vulcan]

Folks, from what I have been seeing and reading elsewhere, radicalization of the youth is going on in the schools of SA as they are everywhere else in the Muslim world. It would not suprise me if this unrest is being pushed by the mosques over there. Add to this a Saudi govt that has been weakening for some time, and maybe the fundamentalists smell blood.

[FITZ]

It must have something to do with the Jews somehow.

[McGavin999]

Interesting. Especially in the light of the fact that we have just arrested a Saudi princess for beating her slave down in Florida.

It would appear that the Al Saud family head needs to take a firmer hand on the reins of his family. He needs to toss some of those officials out on their backside, very publically! That would gain the attention and the respect of the people and then maybe they would do the same for their children.

[oldvike]

Interesting, sounds like these young Saudi men are from South Central.

[ikka]

Or is their job limited to issuing tickets to drivers who don't wear seatbealts or chatting as they cruise the city in their new Luminas?

BINGO! They are now a Western-style police force.

[Restorer]

I thought the most interesting part was the criticism of the government. Perhaps I'm out of touch, but I was unaware there was this much freedom of the press in SA.

[Jmouse007]

"What is happening to Saudi society?"

Simple, the same thing that happens in EVERY "society" that rejects the Lord Jesus Christ and the salvation he offers to all who will acept Him as their personal savior.

[Southack]

Sounds like the Sauds are beginning to plant stories to justify their forthcoming crackdown on radicals. This is a good sign.

[XLurk]

Saudi equivalent of Spring Break?

[truth_seeker]

Are these youths a product of the schools, wherein they learn to memorize and chant from the Krazy Koran (but little else)? Elsewhere I have read that Saudi has 18 percent unemployment, and a big budget deficit, in spite of vast oil revenues.

Plain and simple: The idea that a religion can well govern a complex country, is proven to be dead wrong. Islam is the number one problem in the world, followed by communism. Both are makers of wars, and fail to meet basic human needs. Hence, the terrorism.

[Joe Boucher]

Hard to keep them down on the farm once they've seen the bright lites of Riyad.

[mindprism.com]

Lying (spin, hypocracy, double-standards, newspeak, PC, law, bureacracy) make people mentally ill. When you lie, or are semi-ethical, or when you swallow your voice....

you poison your mind...

you disorient yourself, your justifications become self-delusional tides that disconnect you from reality and humanity.

We build civilizations that drive us mad.

[weikel]

So instead of killing women they are now violently harassing them I suppose this is an improvement.