Saudi Arabia arrests 57 men for flirting at mall »
Posted By not2needy 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsSaudi Arabia began interrogating 57 men Saturday who were arrested for flirting with women in front of a shopping mall in the holy city of Mecca, a local newspaper reported.
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not2needy1 year, 8 months ago
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FTA:
The country's religious police arrested the men Thursday night for behavior that also allegedly included dancing to pop music blaring from their cars and wearing improper clothing, reported the Okaz newspaper, which is deemed close to the government.
Saturday's newspaper report did not say what kind of outfits the young men were wearing, but T-shirts emblazoned with drawings or English writing are often an invitation for harassment by the religious police. Islamic radicals also consider pop music a corrupting force.
OMG, HAHAHAHAHA!
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BronxBomber1 year, 8 months ago
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What could be possibly be shown to even merit a lewd comment: "Hiyah toots! Shake that shawl, lift that veil!"
(I wonder if *The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice* has a picture of me in their post office for similar offences here?)
;o)
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 8 months ago
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Maybe they were playing Britney Spears music and wearing a T-shirt with her image on it. LOL
That could be considered offensive. HA HA HA HA.
Seriously, The thought police are out there. Who knows what these rigidly, brutish jokers find offensive. It could be as little as a longing glance.
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AnteUp1 year, 8 months ago
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Shadowolf ~
How are these guys supposed to PROVE they weren't flirting?
And yeah ~ these are our good friends, the Saudis.
At the bottom of the article there is a story about
some more "good friends" of this administration:
http://www.propeller.com/viewstory/2008/02/23/s...
Why is it we cannot talk to Hamas even though they were
elected AND have asked for a ceasefire? Maybe there is
a certain number of human rights abuses you have to reach
before you can be considered as a friend?
What lunatic dreams up these policies? We can't talk to Cuba
because Castro is a Communist - but we CAN make Russia and
China our valued trading partners?? You'd have to be
bug-eyed crazy to understand this nonsense!
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walden31 year, 8 months ago
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People are free to live under whatever kind of government that they want to. If they want to live in a theocracy then so be it. I'm sure that they don't have to worry about leaving their cars or homes unlocked.
On the other hand I'm willing to accept some annoying neighbors and crime for greater personal freedoms.
The thing that I don't get is all the hyper criticism that I read of Israel, and there are reasons to be critical of the Israeli government, but come on at least you are free to flirt in Israel. If you want to criticize human rights in Israel then at least be fair and criticize the countries where people can't flirt, can't be seen with a male who isn't a relative, can't expose their hair and can't live openly homosexual lives.
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