Foreigners Face Saudi Lashing for Party

Amused

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Foreigners Face Saudi Lashing for Party
AP
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Feb. 4) - A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The defendants were among 433 foreigners, including some 240 women, arrested by the kingdom's religious police for attending the party in Jiddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz said. It did not identify the foreigners, give their nationalities or say when the party took place.

Judge Saud al-Boushi sentenced the 20 to prison terms of three to four months and ordered them to receive an unspecified number of lashes, the newspaper said. They have the right to appeal, it added.

The prosecutor general charged the 20 with "drinking, arranging for impudent party, mixed dancing and shooting a video for the party," Okaz said.

The paper said the rest of those arrested were awaiting trial.

Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which it bans alcohol and meetings between unrelated men and women.

The religious police, a force resented by many Saudis for interfering in personal lives, enjoys wide powers. Its officers roam malls, markets, universities and other public places looking for such infractions as unrelated men and women mingling, men skipping Islam's five daily prayers and women with strands of hair showing from under their veil.

In May, the Interior Ministry restricted the powers of the religious police to just arresting suspects, because the police sometimes had held people incommunicado and insisted on taking part in ensuing investigations.
 

rivan

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So I guess I'll have to wait a while longer for the release of Girls Gone Wild: Riyadh?
 

Amused

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Originally posted by: rivan
So I guess I'll have to wait a while longer for the release of Girls Gone Wild: Riyadh?

They already have it. Girls lift their veils and flash some ankle. It's hot!
 

BigJ

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What I think of their laws aside, you have to respect another country's laws when you willingly visit that country.
 

lobbyone

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Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: rivan
So I guess I'll have to wait a while longer for the release of Girls Gone Wild: Riyadh?

They already have it. Girls lift their veils and flash some ankle. It's hot!
oooh ankle flashes!
 

JulesMaximus

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Well, there's one place I'll never visit during my lifetime. Man, talk about draconian laws...:roll:
 

Chryso

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Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Well, there's one place I'll never visit during my lifetime. Man, talk about draconian laws...:roll:

Maybe, but you can get cheap gas for your truck.
 

JulesMaximus

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Originally posted by: Chryso
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Well, there's one place I'll never visit during my lifetime. Man, talk about draconian laws...:roll:

Maybe, but you can get cheap gas for your truck.

I don't have a truck.
 

SonnyDaze

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The religious police, a force resented by many Saudis for interfering in personal lives, enjoys wide powers. Its officers roam malls, markets, universities and other public places looking for such infractions as unrelated men and women mingling, men skipping Islam's five daily prayers and women with strands of hair showing from under their veil.

:shocked:
 

jpeyton

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Originally posted by: BigJ
What I think of their laws aside, you have to respect another country's laws when you willingly visit that country.

 

OrByte

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Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: BigJ
What I think of their laws aside, you have to respect another country's laws when you willingly visit that country.

not so much respect the other country's law, but you definitely should abide by them.

I do not respect such idiocy.
 

Kadarin

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I agree JulesMaximus; I never want to go there.

Think also about Radical Islam's ultimate goal: The entire world under Islamic Sharia rule. I imagine it would be a lot like Saudi Arabia in the social aspect.
 

Red Dawn

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Jerry Falwell, Orel Roberts and his son Anal and Pat Robertson are jealous.