Saudi Arabian "Virtue Police" Push "Immodest" Girls Into Burning Building

Israel National News.com ^ | 3/1/5/02 | Staff Writer

[kapn kuek]

Islam must be the most evil cult ever thought up by a human! Crazy Mo must be proud of all the death and destruction in this world that he has caused.

Has any nation been able to ward off the plague of Muslims? Are there any success stories out there? Were the Crusaders the last to stop this onslaught of evil?

[rebdov]

Thanks, I read this before. I am sure that the local FR Al-QAEDA seminarians will dismiss it because the source was Israeli. Even after they read that it was the British Telegraph, they will still deny it. If the article had said Jews push them into the building then it would have been believable. But Muslims treasure life. Mary had a little cow of the UN Human Rights commission insists that Islam is the standard for human rights. Therefore this story must be false, a mossad lie, created by the Learned Elders of Zion.

[PA Engineer]

Reread my post. You seem to have taken personal offense to my critic of the author. "Green Suburbans" now? Aramco hand-me-downs?

[kapn kuek]

Mary had a little cow of the UN Human Rights commission insists that Islam is the standard for human rights.

Reading that made me puke!

[headsonpikes]

Bump your #58. ;^)

[bimbo]

… try to connect this to conservative Christians in America. They're usually good for two or three such bits.

And yet the only Religious Police to be found in America are not Christians but the Atheist Secular Humanists who use the power of the govt. to enforce their atheism on the rest of us.

[a_witness]

An American peer of mine actually lived native in Al-Mamlaka al-'Arabiya as-Sa'udiya. He was at Meccah. He was fluent and Moslem. I still remember some of his stories. Ya Muslimin !

[js1138]

I see no one being forced into any religious belief in the U.S. There's a lot of pushing and shoving, but it's rare for an avowed athiest to reach high elected office.

[Gladwin]

Here is an article from the BBC on the same subject.

Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers. In a rare criticism of the kingdom's powerful "mutaween" police, the Saudi media has accused them of hindering attempts to save 15 girls who died in the fire on Monday.

About 800 pupils were inside the school in the holy city of Mecca when the tragedy occurred. 15 girls died in the blaze and more than 50 others were injured. According to the al-Eqtisadiah daily, firemen confronted police after they tried to keep the girls inside because they were not wearing the headscarves and abayas (black robes) required by the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islam.

One witness said he saw three policemen "beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya". The Saudi Gazette quoted witnesses as saying that the police - known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice - had stopped men who tried to help the girls and warned "it is a sinful to approach them".

The father of one of the dead girls said that the school watchman even refused to open the gates to let the girls out. "Lives could have been saved had they not been stopped by members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," the newspaper concluded.

Relatives' anger

Families of the victims have been incensed over the deaths. Most of the victims were crushed in a stampede as they tried to flee the blaze. The school was locked at the time of the fire - a usual practice to ensure full segregation of the sexes.

The religious police are widely feared in Saudi Arabia. They roam the streets enforcing dress codes and sex segregation, and ensuring prayers are performed on time. Those who refuse to obey their orders are often beaten and sometimes put in jail.

[Alamo-Girl]

I've been looking for another source for confirmation also.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Hey dude... don't worry, they were just girls.

[Jethro Tull]

Thanks for the bump veronica.

I'll say an extra rosary to Mary, the Mother of God, in hopes that the Jewish homesteaders in the West Bank and their Palestinine brothers will find the path to peace.

[Long Cut]

Reading this breaks my heart as surely as stories of dead American Firemen and Jewish victims of terrorism does. These poor girls were victims of extremist Islamics the same as the others.

I cannot for the life of me imagine why Islamic males hate(and that is the proper word) women so much. That such barbarism not only exists in the 21st century, but actually controls one of the Earth's most valuable resources, must be some kind of cosmic mistake of history. I used to call it a joke of history, but I'm not laughing now.

My heart goes out to these unfortunate angels. In words they would have understood, "Peace be with you".