Strike!
Not anyone's head off (this time), but rather bowling pins. "Morality police" out to prove to other Saudis that they're just one of the guys -- when they're not too busy beating sinners up, that is.
"SAUDI ARABIA: Let's take the morality police bowling," by Raed Rafei for the LA Times, November 12
When the men from the Committee to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice arrived unexpectedly at a shopping mall in Jeddah, the trendy Saudi youth in their Western-style attire were seized with fear.Actually, it's not so much what they "perceive" but what their ulema have codified into sharia, based on Islam's scriptures.The religious force is notorious for beating up and arresting men and women in Saudi Arabia for what they perceive as immoral behaviors as well as Western ways of behaving or dressing up.
But this time, the bearded men of the religious police had totally different intentions. They just wanted to engage in a game of bowling with a group of youth at the mall in the Saudi coastal city, the local daily Al-Watan reported on Tuesday.The newspaper said that high-ranking officials from this police force, who turned out to be talented bowlers, won the game against the young group of bowlers. They all engaged in a friendly conversation, Al-Watan added.
This unusual event raised questions in the kingdom about whether the morality police widely viewed as austere and brutal are trying to spruce up their public image by engaging with young people.
The few thousand clerical policemen, known in Arabic as Mutaween, have come under a lot of criticism lately for their extreme policing ways in implementing the laws of Islam in a country where the strict and puritanical Wahhabi interpretation of Islam is prevalent.
Officially recognized by the Saudi government, the religious police can raid private homes in search for “sinners” drinking alcohol or engaging in banned sexual activities. They can stop men and women who are unrelated by blood or marriage for meeting in a public place. They can also imprison those who are caught failing to perform one of the daily five prayers of Islam.
In August, the religious police banned Saudis from walking their pets in public because, they said, young men were using their dogs and cats to attract women on the streets.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is trying to polish the image of his country as one of the most religiously strict places in the world. Today, an international interfaith meeting spearheaded by the kingdom is starting at the United Nations in New York to foster dialogue among different religious groups.
But the Saudi initiative has been regarded as hypocritical by some human rights organizations.
Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said:
“There is no religious freedom in Saudi Arabia, yet the kingdom asks the world to listen to its message of religious tolerance. … The dialogue should be about where religious intolerance runs deepest, and that includes Saudi Arabia.”
The New-York based human rights watchdog said that Saudi Arabia does not permit its citizens or foreign residents to publicly practice any religion other than Islam.
But hey, they sure bowl a mean game!
"They can also imprison those who are caught failing to perform one of the daily five prayers of Islam."
Well...I certainly would'nt want to run afoul of "the morality police" so here goes a daily prayer(flushing sound)!! I hope my toilet faces Mecca!!
Bowling for Mohammed!
Get a strike for the Prophet!
Only heretics roll gutter balls!
Seriously, the boys still look a little apprehensive. I think that one t-shirt is haram! Oh, no! Run for it, boys!
What Would Pigman Do?
Those fat kids in the background look like the offspring of first cousin marriages.
The kid's clothes are definitely haram!
The "morality police" guy should be removed from the lane immediately. He's not wearing approved bowling shoes.
Then again, maybe that is allah's picture.
Lori B. - I just noticed that. What's the Sharia penalty for wearing street shoes when you are bowling? Do you lose one foot or both?
"The religious force is notorious for beating up and arresting men and women in Saudi Arabia for what they perceive as immoral behaviors as well as Western ways of behaving or dressing up."
I suggest a new strategy...let the wookie...uh.... I mean mutwaween win
I'm waiting for the al-Jazeera action/drama "Saudi Vice", with the same 80's theme song.
Lori B,
He may not have rented his shoes from the alley but they could still be bowling shoes.
I figure he has to be a "talented bowler". It takes a lot of concentration to hit the pocket and keep from tripping over your own skirts at the same time, to say nothing of having your headscarf fall in front of your eyes during your delivery. Did he remember to follow through?
Has anyone else noticed the unusual girth of the boy in background? Looks like he has been eating too many Muslim potato chips.
Bowling for Mohammed!
Get a strike for the Prophet!
Only heretics roll gutter balls!
Posted by: tanstaafl
I'll remember that next week. Rather than hang my head in shame, I will hold it high whenever my ball rolls into the gutter. Every strike is for Mohammed.
THAT must be why I get so few! Let's hear it for splits!
" Did he remember to follow through?"
posted above
I would be surprised if he remembers to let go of the ball.
What's in his pocket -- a citation booklet? And a guy can never have too many pens at his disposal.
That skull t-shirt must be haram, because smiley faces are, so why wouldn't scary faces be considered haram too? There's just no keeping up with their double-standards.
Where was the beer?? How can you be an adult, go bowling and there be no BEER???? Right, one of the guys. Jeez, I bet he didn't even have his team's name stitched on the back of his robe. You know Mo's Murderers. I mean he doesn't even have his name stitched on his pocket. Poser.
The kids look like they are just terrified to do or say anything.lol
Does anybody know how they get their whites so white? Why won't they reveal their only source of merit to the rest of the world?
The cops with the power to throw the other team into jail indefinitely without trial won the game? What a surprise. Musta taken great skill and lotsa prayer.
The morality police are just winning the hearts and minds of the youth adn thet western MSM. Trying to look hip and cool. After all this human rights U.N. Saudi BS is over and the liberal western press return home after congratulating Islam then the Morality thought police will be back to their usual beastings of civvies.
But this time, the bearded men of the religious police had totally different intentions. They just wanted to engage in a game of bowling with a group of youth at the mall in the Saudi coastal city, the local daily Al-Watan reported on Tuesday.
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Clearly, this was an offer the boys couldn't refuse. No wonder they look so terrified!
I want to see this LA Times article followed up by an old one of SS men relaxing at the local beer hall. See, they're just like us!
Good God--what idiocy! And this in a respected newspaper.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is trying to polish the image of his country as one of the most religiously strict places in the world. Today, an international interfaith meeting spearheaded by the kingdom is starting at the United Nations in New York to foster dialogue among different religious groups.
It's perhaps coincidence but it's still ironic that the very day King Abdallah was making headlines in New York City was the day the Saydi Internet watchdogs yanked the website of Zakariya Boutros and Life TV - islamexplained.com. It's actually amazing the site was allowed to remain in Saudi Arabia as long as it was - but no more. Fortunately, it's not so easy for them to block the Life TV Arabic channel which is still beaming into who knows how many thousands or millions of homes here in the Kingdom.
looks as though obesity is an even bigger problem over there in soddy barbaria than in my country.
fat bstards!
What a masterful seamless piece of Saudi PR! The two fat Saudi Princes looked a tad on edge however. Did Islam invent bowling too?
gravenimage,
Loved your post. You are dead on as usual.
Those boys don't look terrified, they have that glazed over look of someone who has no opinion about anything. Their only thought is this: "I want to be on the moral police so I too can be privleged enough to use that cool green bowling ball."
Someone please manufacture a bowling ball with the famous exploding Muhammad on it.
champ,
I just noticed the skull t-shirt. Given how they search for bibles, how does something like that escape their notice?
That pocket looks just the right size for a pack of cigarettes. Aren't Arabs heavey smokers? The pen is merely a diversion. That outfit looks more like something he would wear to bed.
The latest tv special: bowling in pj's.
Thank You, Never_Submit.
For the heck of it, I wanted to see if I could find some heart-warming pics of Nazis in their off hours. Well, you really can't lampoon any of this stuff.
From the NYT, in an article about the Holocaust Museaum:
"Museum curators have avoided describing the album as something like “monsters at play” or “killers at their leisure.” Ms. Cohen said the photos were instructive in that they showed the murderers were, in some sense, people who also behaved as ordinary human beings."
Here's a photo of guards relaxing in their off-time at Aushwitz:
http://fullmetalcynic.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/span.jpg
By the way, thanks to Full Metal Cynic for the link. He (or she) seems like a JW kind of guy. I hadn't run across the site before.
When I see that picture, I just think, "man, inbreeding is a very, very bad idea." Saudi Arabia has just shy of 70% consanguinity.
How ironic. Look closely at the youth's skeleton tee shirt. It depicts a skull performing oral activity between two spread angel wings. How could the Morality Policeman miss this. This youth is obviously wearing the colors of Allah's Angels.
Um--that would be "Auschwitz".
And Never_Submit, You may be right--that vacant look the kids are sporting might not be fear--they might just be vacant.
Also, I notice there aren't any teen girls hanging out with the rest of the mall rats. They're all at home, in purdah. No bowling for the Muslimahs!
I wonder who got a higher score, the sheik or Barrack Obama (39 pins).
My addition to, "What is wrong with this picture."
Everyone got the black hard soled shoes, which is bad enough.
But look at the ball, It is the same 8 pounder that my 9 yr old daughter throws. WEAK!
I wonder if they put up the gutter bumpers.
Another possible explanation for the boys expression is that the moral police officer is not out there to show these boys what a fun guy he is, but he probably said this, "Some heads are gonna roll, just like this bowling ball, not unless you go home right now and change those t-shirts!" Now that makes more sense.
Recruitment drive? How many of these lads will get asked to sign up for the Religious Police when they're older?
(Read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's 'Infidel' for her scathing description of the typical behaviour of Saudi lads when they're at home with their mothers, aunties and little sisters. Essentially: bullies - they order their mothers around, treat their little sisters like dirt, and nobody calls them on it.)
Some guy wearing a hospital gown and a table cloth on his head is sneaking around watching out for unrelated boys and girls talking to one another...
...and showing him bowling is supposed to relieve fears of these Islam-o-nazi gestapo knuckleheads.
Uh, no.
"King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is trying to polish the image of his country as one of the most religiously strict places in the world. Today, an international interfaith meeting spearheaded by the kingdom is starting at the United Nations in New York to foster dialogue among different religious groups."
It's my bet Christian and Jewish clergymen will fall all over themselves apologizing for the ill treatment of Muslims in the Western world.
And you can be certain no one will mention the murderous intollerance of other faiths in the Islamic world.
Talk about a very bad joke!
Don't you wear special shoes when bowling like the kids are wearing? Look at what the Saudi-SOB is wearing.
There's only one thing missing in the picture...Bloodstains on the white shirt...Probably changed cloths after a hard days work cracking skulls...
How do they keep their whites so white?
Why they have foreign national women whose passports they have seized slaving away in their homes sleeping on wooden pallets in the basements functioning like scullery maids, bleaching and bleaching that linen...getting the dirty air from the kuffir out of the pure fabric.
Wow. How fortunate there was a camera there to grab that really "revealing" shot about what entertains (if that's allowed) the best of the best.
Yak.
What are the qualifications of Morals Cops? Do they get training? Once they get the badge (or whatever), are they presumed forever pure no matter what they do, or is there a mutaween Internal Affairs? Just curious.
"Has anyone else noticed the unusual girth of the boy in background? Looks like he has been eating too many Muslim potato chips."
Posted by: angryamerican
Maybe he's been drinking too much camel urine -- I hear it's loaded with calories.
"Does anybody know how they get their whites so white? Why won't they reveal their only source of merit to the rest of the world?"
Posted by: Concerned Citizen
After laundry, he just hangs them out to dry in the Saudi sun; sunlight is a strong bleaching agent.
"Clearly, this was an offer the boys couldn't refuse. No wonder they look so terrified!"
Posted by: gravenimage
They look that way because they figure he means to use them as "boys like pearls" after the game.
Abdullah...is that you???
I have worked in Saudi many times, albeit the last time in 1999.
I have worked on refineries and there have been pick up trucks with "Bin Laden Group" festooned on the doors.
The religious police, the "mutawah" are all monstrous and basically backward savages.
They just do what they want.
They are very easy to spot among other also fanatic and lunatic Saudis.
They wear their trousers sawn off half way up their shins and consequently look like the clowns they are.
They are a truly despicably organisation, as a Saudi refinery worker once showed me a video of a mutawah having sex in an alleyway with a Fillipino girl and then sodomising her boyfriend.
They have to uphold virtue by doing this you see.
Maybe the boys were like pearls in the seventh century, but all those hundreds of years of inbreeding has made them somewhat less like pearls, and those Muslim potato chips don't help them in the beauty stakes either...(very funny, angryamerican, I don't know why but that had me in stitches...)
those two young fellows are morality police recruits...
He's got PlayBoy Playmate fountain pens in his breast pocket (haram...even more haram as ball point pens were invented by Infidels)...then check out the Night Club de Jour ink-tatoo admitence stamp on the undersurface of his right wrist..and just when ya think the Beeeeg Smile on his face is from playing BBall with kids
SHEEESSHHH
Honestly, you're too hard on these guys.
They were rolling bowling balls down the lane, not human heads they severed. They also knocked down bowling pins, not twin towers. Maybe the way to defeat jihad is...Bowling?!?!?!?!?!?
Welcome to the New, Kinder & Gentler Kingdom of the Two Holy Sanctuaries! Be sure to visit and enjoy the public decapitations and unanesthetized amputatations at the All New, Fully Enhanced, Tourist-Tailored Chop Chop Square.
DOH! (dimwits of hollywood)
"A website launched Friday with the backing of technology industry and Hollywood elite urges people worldwide to help craft a framework for harmony between all religions.
The Charter for Compassion project on the Internet at www.charterforcompassion.org springs from a "wish" granted this year to religious scholar Karen Armstrong at a premier Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference in California."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081114211405.6b9pjnso&show_article=1
Look at that blokes pens and notepad in his pocket. Reminds me of "Dad's Army", a British TV series. German Paratroopers land in rural England and take a group of Home Guard troops prisoner. The German Paratrooper Captain has a notebook and writes down all their names. "zas is your name?"
And this saudi nutter is playing bowels with a top pocket full of pens and a notepad.
How easy would it be to pick up a bowling ball and smash his brains in?
I guess I'm not there. Sadly
:(
Of course we all remember the religious police's 'finest hour' when they were able to prevent disrespect to Islam by enforcing its strict dress code on 15 schoolgirls. The fact they were attempting to flee a burning building was irrelevant, as the fact that they consequently burnt to death.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1874471.stm
PMK
Assign gutter balls to Mohammed/Allah, and strikes to the anti-Mohammed. That will be a major motivation to improve the game.
I like the Islamic technique of holding the robes during delivery. Maybe he should use a sword with the tip in the hole in order to improve his chances
"...the trendy Saudi youth in their Western-style attire were seized with fear..."
Trendy? Nah. These kids are waaaaay behind the fashion curve.
Trendy is wearing your pants sagging so low that your boxer shorts are almost entirely revealed. I guess that might not "play" in Saudi, but I'm disgusted to see that it's back (after a short...no, I mean brief...um...temporary abscence)here.
I'm always tempted to tell "saggers" how much I like their underwear, ask them where they bought their shorts, ask if they don't get tired of running, while holding their pants up, with one hand, etc.. One day, I'll give in to the temptation, then you'll read about a middle-aged Florida woman, beaten to death by "saggers".
That will be an irony. The badly dressed thugs beating an ordinary person. Saudi's fashion police, in reverse...
Obama's "civilian security force" can learn a few lessons from these guys. Oddly enough the honorable louis FairyKahn issued a video some time back about talking about how when he was up on the mothership he had revealed to him that his noi peeps would be called on to police the whiteman's faied society.
When my brother in law worked in saui arabia as a truck driver he said you better not take a shower, shave and put on cologne before you hit the road or you'd get raped at the checkpoints. He said they'd try to look and smell as nasty as they could before they hit the road so the Saudi "Security" wouldn't find them too "attractive".
Hey...isn't that the lead guitarist of Black Sabbath?
I am shocked by the nasty comments about the two kids. Proves if any were needed, hatred is not uniquely Islamic.
Very sade such oppressive regime...is now invited to give tolerance courses to western democraties...here is a copy of a comment I posted recently about this conference :
Pur hypocrisy...and even the fact of organising this conference , is in itself some thing that legitimates Islamic practices...and make them look like more human, more negociable and manageables rules while actually Islam is based on an absolut totalitarian rules from the Quran and Hadith and that are absolutly not negociables. You are muslim or you are not.
Are they going to tell Saudi Arabia king to stop been muslim? or is he going to teach them "Islamic toleranc"e?
Just an exemple how westerners can ask Saudi Arabia king and other Islam representatives to change the law that condemn to death Ex-muslims located in USA and Europe ?
And If they demande the change , it just means they are asking them to stop been muslims. Becaue the Islamic death fatwa is an automatic call by Islam itself to all muslims wordwide to excecute all ex-muslims worldwide (apostat) and thsoe who commit blasphemy even if no Imam it calling for it.
Are westerners going to demand the king of Saudi Arabia to stop cutting hands of robbers? Or suppressing the stoning punishment from the islamic religion or the slavage of muslim women or doing some thing to stop the advancement of the religion of Allah every where in the world as allah demand it?
Its like robotic age has a conference with stone age : Yes we are going to try to understand each other culture and difference! And having a drink about tolerance.
The basis of Islam is that Hadith and Quranic rules can't be changed or adapted, it is not allowed by Allah and Mohammed.
The only way to adapt to basic human rights in those countries to suppress Islamic laws. ..
And the only way to stop the continuation of the spread of Islam in Europe is prohibiting them...in Europe.
Yes in that case, total hypocrisy is necessary, if not the conference just can't existe. And it shoudn't existe.
So, interfaith dialogue? Social cohesion? multicultiralism?
I want to tell those happy Islamic leaders , please lets have some respect for memory...let the blood of the last desperat stoned girld time to dry. sted recently about this conference :
Note, he's using a GREEN ball. How very Islamic.
GiriGiriHanasu wrote:
Of course we all remember the religious police's 'finest hour' when they were able to prevent disrespect to Islam by enforcing its strict dress code on 15 schoolgirls. The fact they were attempting to flee a burning building was irrelevant, as the fact that they consequently burnt to death.
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Of course I remember this hideous case.
Even the Mecca fire department--probably not made up of "feminists", exactly--were willing to save these girls, no matter what their state of dress.
In fact, they were just starting to bring girls out of the school when the religious police showed up and *drove the girls back into the burning building*.
The firefighters protested, and even--to their credit--started to disobey the religious police, until the latter pulled weapons and threatened to shoot any fire fighter to continued to try to rescue anyone from the flames.
Fourteen girls died.
To each Muhammedan man his boyz:
Koran 52:24
Round about them will serve, to them, boys (handsome) as pearls well-guarded.
Koran 56:17
Round about them will serve boys of perpetual freshness.
Koran 76:19
And round about them will serve boys of perpetual freshness: if thou seest them, thou wouldst think them scattered pearls.
Cross the foul line and get your foot chopped off.
Gorgi,
Having an opinion on what a person or child is thinking is not hateful. The looks on those kids' faces reminds me of the kids I've seen in cults: no opinion on anything because they learn to never question or show emotion. I feel sorry for these kids because it is highly likely that they are programmed to hate. Obesity is a worldwide epidemic to developed countries. I am sure it won't be long before the insulin pumps and glucose meters are manufactured in the Arabian Penninsula.
Kind regards,
N-S
I am having a hell of a time thinking up a plot for the Saudi version of "The Big Lebowski." The pinky toe would be replaced by a couple severed heads and a couple hands.
I don't think The Dude would abide very long there. He'd say, "Hey, man, I've got a beverage here!" Then the moral police would give him 50 lashes for drinking booze.
In some parts of the world those would be the kids of biker parents. They would view the guy wearing the dress as a pedophile pervert, and would drag him out to the back of the bowling alley and stomp the crap out of him.