MSNBC:
Saudi 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.
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.
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arrested for flirting, and for dancing, and the wrong kind
of songs in Mecca--sounds like the Vatican. One is ushered out of St.Peter's for wearing shorts--you can't play any kind of loud-music from speakers in the piazza
and females are blamed for any flirting--but what is wrong with Moslems or Catholics treating sacred places
like sacred places. The Vatican doesn't have a state army to arrest 57 as in Mecca, but if one goes to Mecca to pray, one must do what Meccan's do--for Heaven sake--especially for heaven sake.
People have grown so accustomed to ignoring or ridiculing the rights of religion that one almost thinks the world's two largest (Catholic and Islam) ought to join souls at least,if not armies, to insist that the Divine experience is always something shattering the
limits of secular whim. J.Gorman
Lou Dobbs will find a way to blame illegal immigration. This is a nice companion piece to the one about growing unrest of the lower classes in the Middle East.
Yet, in the US, we set a trap on the internet to lure child predators, then make a TV show out of it. Get a life.
Bush's friends know how to spoil a party.
Now you know why they become terrorist. Let the boys dance and let them get laid and all will be good...
they are a barbaric people,and if we arn't careful, we will soon be in the same class.....
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In Saudi Arabia when you steal, they cut off a hand. What is the penalty for flirting ?
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MUST BE MANY MEXICANS LOST THEIR HANDS IN SAUDI
At the very least you get beaten by the religious police.
Presently 34% of the birth defects in Great Britain are being caused by the 3% Muslim population, why? Because 55% of them are married to their first cousin.
The only thing that will save GB health system is for Muslim men to get out and start dating instead of grabbing the first girl they see at the dinner table.
Presently 34% of the birth defects in Great Britain are being caused by the 3% Muslim population, why? Because 55% of them are married to their first cousin.
The only thing that will save GB health system is for Muslim men to get out and start dating instead of grabbing the first girl they see at the dinner table.
Nice people. We should sell them more of our front line military hardware.
"The newspaper report said the men who were arrested Thursday could be released if they could prove they did not flirt with any women."
Could "I was flirting with other men" be a plausible defense.
Now it's a good thing that governemnt take a wide stance on the morals issue - next thing you know they' wanna dance . . .
Gee....
Wonder what they'd do with the Mud People?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xOc5260vo3g
When I grew up in Picher, Oklahoma,(1950s) the Quapaw Nation, the U.S. government did not allow dancing, praying in Indian Religion or studying foreign languages, including Quapaw or Cherokee. We started a Spanish class and the school administration was forced to stop it due to government regulations. Perhaps if the U.S. could learn and change all of that then so can Islam, don't you think? REH
The difference is the rules you were inflicted with were the rules of men. The religious authorities are enforcing the rules of an unchangeable god. People can be wrong, god can't. Religious tyranny is the worst kind.
True, but some of these rules in the Islamic countries are old tribal customs that, from what I understand, don't even really exist in the Koran.
Good point but do you worship at the altar of the "Invisible Hand" God of the Stock Market? I can imagine how frustrating that type of materialistic nonsense is for the spiritually minded. Prejudice under the "Invisible Hand" God is relegated to the lucky and the rich. That is why the only serious competition for "Invisible Hand" is the filthy rich Saudis. REH
Isn't that what Bush was doing during his recent visit. Too bad they didn't arrest him, it would have saved us the trouble.
Seriously though this shows what a hipocrisy our foreign policy is. Saudi Arabia has one of the most backwards patriarchal dictatorships on the planet. Yet our President holds hands and kisses them. At the same time covert American forces work to bring down legitimately elected democratic leaders in others.
Kill them, Kill them all. No dancing or flirting allowed...ever
Huckabee for President and welcome religious police.
Islam will take over the world in less than a hundred years thanks to all the religious nut jobs snd people who don't think what others belive in matter...
Allah Ackbar
http://www.nobeliefs.com/index.htm
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First Posted: 02-23-08 04:58 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:46 AM