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| Saudi women bring it to Vice and Virtue cops |
| 2010-05-26 |
| Yeah...real tough guys. In an unprecedented outburst toward Saudi Arabia's religious police, a married woman shot at several officers in a patrol car after she was caught in an "illegal seclusion" with another man in the province of Ha'il on Tuesday. You think you bad! You think you bad! BANGBANGBANGBANGBANG... "She shot at the officers to distract them and allow the man to escape instant detention," said Sheik Mutlak al Nabet, a spokesman for the religious police in Ha'il. He added that the unnamed woman's husband has filed an official report, asking for his wife to be punished and stripped of her Saudi nationality. Oh, no...not that. Saudi law forbids women to socialize with unrelated men or walk in public without a male guardian, other than her husband, father or brother. Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, known as the religious police, are tasked with segregating the sexes. Damn, chief. I didn't sign up for this... Saudi media report that the woman is Syria-born and recently obtained Saudi citizenship after living for years in the kingdom. Her male compatriot is still at large. And plans on staying that way... The incident occurred only few days after the Saudi daily newspaper, Okaz, reported that a religious cop was taken to hospital with bruises after being punched by a woman in her 20s in the city of Al Mubarrazz. Woah, Mahmoud! Who kicked your ass? I don't wanna talk about it... The paper wrote that the young lady got violent with the officer after he asked her and man she was with at a public park to verify their relationship. Despite the possibility of facing imprisonment or lashing, the woman's fisticuffs was hailed by Saudi human rights activist Wajiha Huwaidar. Kick his ass, girlfriend! "People are so fed up with these religious police, and now they have to pay the price for the humiliation they put people through for years and years," she said. "This is just the beginning and there will be more resistance." Dee..licious! The religious police, who patrol shopping malls to make sure women are fully veiled, are reviled in much of the nation. King Abdullah has attempted in recent years to weaken their grip in an overall effort to soften the nation's fundamentalist Wahhabi Islam. Sounds like the ladies are handling that on their own... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #10 Woah, Mahmoud! Who kicked your ass? It wuz at least a duzzin infidels, apostates and heretics. Ah didn't have a chance. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-05-26 13:45 |
| #9 the religious police have a reputation as the place where unemployables go to get jobs. Whereas in the US they matriculate into gender studies programs ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-05-26 11:31 |
| #8 "Woah, Mahmoud! Who kicked your ass?" "I don't wanna talk about it..." "There must ah been a million of 'em. They had me surrounded!" On a more serious note, the religious police have a reputation as the place where unemployables go to get jobs. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2010-05-26 11:22 |
| #7 Burka burning anyone? |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2010-05-26 10:22 |
| #6 A Glock for every Fatima! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-05-26 09:39 |
| #5 Well, that's one thing the burka is good for. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2010-05-26 09:37 |
| #4 You GO, girls! |
| Posted by: Mike 2010-05-26 08:40 |
| #3 Anguper: The problem with hat pins was not pain, it was that they caused lethal internal bleeding. Often people did not even realized they had been stabbed, feel ill an hour later and lie down, never to get up again. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-05-26 08:35 |
| #2 And the liberals say that vigilantism is OK as long as it's justified in their eyes. Just like "I'm against the death penalty but that guy needs it." |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-05-26 03:59 |
| #1 A century ago ladies used those long hair pins to defend their honor. Painful yet leaving almost no mark. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-05-26 00:57 |