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| Religious Police Sent After Al Qaeda | |
| 2006-06-06 | |
| June 6, 2006: The Saudi religious police (officially, the "Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices"), not known for the liberality of their views, are being employed against radical Islamists. Apparently there are sufficient differences of opinion as to what constitutes "genuine" fundamentalism to allow the "Religious Police" to be used against the more extreme elements, particularly since one of their missions is the security of the already very conservative Wahabbi Saudi regime. The religious police are typically recruited from among poorly educated, strongly religious and self-righteous men who have few other employment prospects. Sort of a patronage job. The religious police are generally hated by most Saudis, but so are Islamic terrorists. This is especially the case since al Qaeda began setting off bombs in Saudi Arabia three years ago. In response to that, the government, which pays the generous salaries of most clerics in the kingdom, demanded that a sound theological case be made against al Qaeda. That wasn't terribly hard to do, since nearly all competent Islamic clerics admit that al Qaedas violence, especially when directed at fellow Moslems, is expressly forbidden by Islamic scripture. So the Saudi government, which has been trying to placate both the clergy (who rather like the religious police) and most Saudis (who hate these "lifestyle cops"), has come up with a rather neat solution. Sic the religious cops after the murderous heretics (al Qaeda), and make everyone (except the terrorists) happy.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #15 Wait! You forgot your koran! Bwahahahahahaha! Spot on, 11A5S! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-06-06 19:43 |
| #14 Religious Police Sent After Al Qaeda Wait! You forgot your koran! |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2006-06-06 16:29 |
| #13 This is like putting me in charge of the BATF. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2006-06-06 13:02 |
| #12 Regardless...you always gotta appreciate the sheer stupidity of muzzie Red on Red. Only in the fairy tale land of allan can the killing of an innocent child be justified, and excused (and a muslim child, at that). |
| Posted by: anymouse 2006-06-06 12:59 |
| #11 Islam at its best. |
| Posted by: Pedohile for Profit 2006-06-06 12:58 |
| #10 The Muttawa are dumb enough and twisted enough to join Al Q, not fight them. The Muttawa love the power of their job, as do Al Q. |
| Posted by: Shuns Uleating3851 2006-06-06 12:51 |
| #9 Bah, this is like the Situation in Mogadishu: no matter who dies, we'll be happy. Dark Cloud, silver lining. Some perception required. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2006-06-06 11:43 |
| #8 Fox guarding the hen house? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-06-06 11:27 |
| #7 Kinda like midnite basketball for religious thugs. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2006-06-06 10:36 |
| #6 I thought most of the Saudi AQ boys still in Saudi Arabia were dreamers and plotters in it for the glamour of it all, that those seriously set on jihad had mostly gone to Iraq and gotten themselves killed. No? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-06-06 10:28 |
| #5 I dunno, I read the headline and figured they were being sent as reinforcements, or as a second wave. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-06-06 10:17 |
| #4 The mutts are pusillanimous bully boys, AQ are stone cold killaz, now with Iraq, Sudan, and Somali combat experience. It won't even be close. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-06-06 10:02 |
| #3 So, the muttawwa (I like mutts better) go after AQ, and get Darwined down. The surviving mutts train up and gear up, eventually whittle down AQ and get stronger. I assume (with no basis in actual, pesky facts) that there are likely more mutt candidates than AQ candidates. The state-sanctioned mutts come out of this with AQ kills to their credit, maybe some public gratitude, and now are a formidable para-military force. The Saudi powers that be may have an eventual winner here. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2006-06-06 09:42 |
| #2 Gonna add up to a bunch of dead muttawwa. Too bad, so sad. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-06-06 09:31 |
| #1 Going by the Paleo model, half of this "religious police" are Al Qaeda. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-06-06 09:28 |