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Saudi religious policeman beat up Briton; wife slaps back on face
2014-09-02
[Al Ahram] Members of Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's inquisitors religious police roughed up a British resident of Riyadh after they caught him paying at a women-only cash desk, local media reported on Monday.

Saudi Arabia imposes a strict interpretation of Islamic laws, notably a segregation of the sexes.

A short video posted on YouTube on Sunday shows a member of the inquisitors religious police jump out of his car and attack the Briton, who was accompanied by a woman in a black abaya cloak who defended him.

"That's my wife, how dare you!" the Briton is heard shouting in the video.

Al-Hayat newspaper, quoting witnesses, said the inquisitors religious police had stopped the man in a supermarket after he had paid a female cashier.

The Briton replied that he was accompanied by his wife.

Only women are allowed to pay at females-only cash desks in the kingdom. A man accompanied by female family members can stop at such desks so long as a woman deals with the cashier.

After he left the supermarket, inquisitors religious police agents filmed his car, and he responded by doing the same, Al-Hayat said.

A heated exchange followed as he refused to hand over his camera to the agents, who "attacked and pushed him to the ground," according to witnesses cited by the daily.

The Briton, a convert to Islam, is a longtime resident of the kingdom and married to a Saudi woman, according to Al-Hayat, which said he was finally driven away in a British embassy car.

The inquisitors religious police, named the Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice and known unofficially as Mutawaa, have opened an investigation, Al-Hayat said.

Commission members enforce a strict segregation of the sexes and have traditionally forced women to cover from head to toe when in public.

They also patrol shops to make sure they are shuttered during prayer times.

The inquisitors religious police have been accused of abusing their powers.

But since January 2013, the inquisitors religious police have become more discreet after the appointment of a new chief, holy man Abdulatif bin Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, who banned the use of unmarked cars.
Posted by:Fred

#7  #5 Jeebus, sent from Rantburg to read Chesterton!

I vaguely remember reading enough that I should have known better, but I've always thought of him as kind of a square. A drudge, anyway. My loss, apparently. I'll save looking up that line you quote for an unusually receptive moment.

Auden -- another cat I seem to have criminally underestimated. Memorisation material there, Nim!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-09-02 22:51  

#6  Nim's is good too,
But take the time to read Lepanto.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-09-02 21:40  

#5  Jeebus, sent from Rantburg to read Chesterton!

That once went singing southward when all the world was young,

Posted by: Shipman   2014-09-02 17:56  

#4  An excellent work. Thank you for the read. I, mice elf, prefer the following, as it cuts to the chase...as is me wont:

There will be no Peace

W. H. Auden

(Written in 1956)

Though mild clear weather
Smile again on the shore of your esteem
And its colours come back, the storm has changed you:
You will not forget, ever,
The darkness blotting out hope, the gale
Prophesying your downfall.

You must live with your knowledge.
Way back, beyond, outside of you are others,
In moonless absences you never heard of,
Who have certainly heard of you,
Beings of unknown number and gender:
And they do not like you.

What have you done to them?
Nothing? Nothing is not an answer:
You will come to believe - how can you help it? -
That you did, you did do something;
You will find yourself wishing you could make them laugh,
You will long for their friendship.

There will be no peace.
Fight back, then, with such courage as you have
And every unchivalrous dodge you know of,
Clear on your conscience on this:
Their cause, if they had one, is no thing to them now;
They hate for hate's sake.
Posted by: Anice Nim   2014-09-02 16:07  

#3  Can I say the word "Butt" and the word Allah in the same sentence?

Dunno, Poodle-Noodle, old fruit. Let's see...

Mahound likes to sniff Allah's butt, but
He can't get a drop of that rotgut.
He fiddles and yearns
And he whines and he burns...
Two hogsheads remain in that butt, shut.

So, can we? Man proposes, Fred disposes.

Also, who the hell has been hiding Chesterton's Lepanto from me all these years? Wow!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-09-02 15:43  

#2  Bugger all, Inshallah. But what can you expect from a religion which prays with its butt in the air?

Can I say the word "Butt" and the word Allah in the same sentence? Is that still PC and totally Religion of Peace? I wouldn't want to offend any Moslems...or anyone named Hussein...or Abdrool or Muckmud. The Crusaders use to call a certain individual Mahound.
But that was in the 12th century....
Posted by: Goober Poodle7799   2014-09-02 13:21  

#1  The Briton, a convert to Islam, is a longtime resident of the kingdom and married to a Saudi woman,

Is the Brit now done with his stupid, friggin experiment with Islam?
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-09-02 11:05