Posted on 02/05/2007 7:33:58 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced, a newspaper reported Sunday. The defendants were among 433 foreigners, including some 240 women, arrested by the kingdom's religious police for attending the party in Jiddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz said. It did not identify the foreigners, give their nationalities or say when the party took place. Judge Saud al-Boushi sentenced the 20 to prison terms of three to four months and ordered them to receive an unspecified number of lashes, the newspaper said. They have the right to appeal, it added.
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Maybe they shouldn't be in Saudi Arabia.
Any culture that abuses women as a right is doomed in my opinion and that is all of Islam as I see it.
Sure there are: backward, intolerant, autocratic, superstitious, ignorant, and intellectually barren.
They made the mistake of having the party outside of the US compound for "foreign workers." The religious police always stayed away from the American compound. :-)
What a backwards ass culture. After Muslims invented the concept of zero, Islamist whackos have contributed about the same amount to the world. Zero.
Is that a trick question?
How about these words?
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the infence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
I can see it now, the new hit TV show in Shariaville...
"Lashing with the Stars"
Coming to a Al-Jazerra station near you.
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah!
Actually those aren't the only two choices. Adults who choose to drink responsibly and dance are not acting immorally. When there is a choice between freedom and tyranny, I choose freedom.
You choose,.........
I choose the one that produces "Girls Gone Wild" videos ;-)
When I said I wanted to party, dance, and "get stoned" this isn't what I had in mind.
Which is the perfect reason to stay as far away from those those courtries as possible.
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You choose, they are both moral extremes.
Oh my... that was painful to read.
Muslim democracy at work.
It's also important to note that a woman dancing to most Muslim men is akin to performing a sexual act with clothes on. They see sex in everything female that isn't covered with 20 layers of clothing. And if you're blond? You are, of course, a whore.
Which of course is why NOW supports Islam. They think it is fine that they treat women like cattle and stone them for the unforgivable sin of being raped. That is as long as they hate America.
Pray for W and Our Troops
The only way you'd get me over there is in a uniform, body armor and an M-16A2 rifle.
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