"The newspaper report said the men who were arrested Thursday could be released if they could prove they did not flirt with any women. Otherwise, they will be transferred to court and stand trial."
Sharia Alert. "Saudi Men Busted for Flirting With Women in Public," from the Associated Press:
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia began interrogating 57 men Saturday who were arrested after allegedly flirting with women in front of a shopping mall in the holy city of Mecca, a local newspaper reported.
The country's religious police arrested the men Thursday night, alleging behavior that included dancing to pop music blaring from their cars and wearing improper clothing, according to the Okaz newspaper, which is deemed close to the government.
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice runs the religious police, who are charged with enforcing Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic lifestyle.
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.
The police — informally known as the muttawa, literally "enforcer" — don't wear uniforms. But they are recognizable by their long beards and their robes, shorter than the ones normally worn by Saudi men. They also shun the black cord that sits atop the headdress worn by most Saudi men.
Women in Saudi Arabia are required to wear a long, enveloping black cloak called an abaya and to cover their hair with a headscarf.
The newspaper report said the men who were arrested Thursday could be released if they could prove they did not flirt with any women. Otherwise, they will be transferred to court and stand trial, the paper added.
Since there were 57 men, it looks like there will be enough witnesses to beat this rap.
They could claim they were flirting with each other, not with women. Oops, no, that wouldn't help. Ah, they could claim they were walking their dogs. Oh, darn, that's no good either. Ah, here it is, guaranteed to work: they were all bewitched by one of the women; that way they go free, and she gets beheaded. Then they file a counter-lawsuit against the Spell Protection Authority, claiming it didn't do its job of protecting them from spells, and then settle out of court for one minute's worth each of the kingdom's oil revenues, or about $400,000/man.
Flirting with women! Oh the horror of it all.
"dancing to pop music blaring from their cars and wearing improper clothing" - Islam is no fun. No wonder muslim boys are more than willing to be suicide bombers. I'm surprised that they need explosives to blow up.
(cont'd)
YOU MIGHT BE ISLAMIC IF
14. You think flirting with women is bad, but
open pederasty with pre-pubic boys and kissing other men is okay.
15. You think a man showing his ankle is a virtue, but a woman showing her ankle is a vice.
16. You think someone dancing with your niece is a sin, but having sex with her yourself at home is okay.
17. You think beating your wife is okay, but taking all of your clothes off for sex is not.
18. You think music playing in a car is bad, but an ear-splitting adhan at 5AM is good.
19. You still think the world is flat after taking an intercontinental flight.
20. Your first cousin is also your niece and your second wife.
Flirting with or harassing these women? Either way it's a dumb law.
See!!See!!!!! That's why Valentines Day had to be canceled this year.
Let them plague one another.
They deserve the full broth of their own folly.
Islam: shanks of stupidity simmering the the liquor of lunacy.
Add pilfered religion and serve.
The gender apartheid that is so integral to Islamic theology will eventually be Islam's undoing...(so long as the West sticks to its guns, no help from the Western feminists). Of course, there are many Muslim women thoroughly steeped in the ideology of Islam, but there are more and more who are exposed to Western thinking...and who are increasingly befuddled by the absence of theological consonance in Islam when trying to reconcile the faith with concepts such as gender equality.
The modus operandi is clear: Western conservatives must become the purveyors of gender equality worldwide...the liberal feminists have clearly abdicated that responsibility.
I think its great !
Anything that stops the buggers from breeding.
They should bring in a new law that anyone caught flirting with women should be castrated.
Eric, castration is not a Muslim family value... except when it comes to their women.
I'm sorry but I'm from the R. Crumb generation and I crack up every time I hear the name 'The Religious Police'.
I think its great !
Anything that stops the buggers from breeding.
They should bring in a new law that anyone caught flirting with women should be castrated.
Posted by: ericthekuffar
That's a good one! :-)
"Saudi Men Busted for Flirting With Women in Public,I am still trying to't figure out why
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Viceand it's members are so afraid of women who are liberated, and do not keep their ankles and hair covered for that matter why most middle eastern males are of the same idea that women are dangerous and must be controled and covered up with all the sexual repression in Islam. Is there any wonder that they cannot control themselves around Western women, especially those who are dressed in a provocative manner that no normal Western man would think about touching, let alone attempt sexual intercourse with without the woman's permission. Yet it seems that a woman dressed in jeans and a blouse to a Muslim male in the Middle East is tantamount to waving a red cape in front of a bull