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Saudi Columnist Calls for End of Religious Police

Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:36 am PST

A columnist for a Saudi newspaper stood up and called for the “religious police” to be abolished. Abdallah bin Bakhit, Saudi liberal and columnist for the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, stated in an interview on Al-Arabiya that “the time has passed” for the Saudi religious police, and that it should ...

Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Free Speech, Mutaween, Religious Police

Our Friends the Saudis

Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 9:23 am PST

In the world center of jihad ideology, our friends the Saudis are taking steps to fight an epidemic of crime: Saudi men arrested for ‘flirting’. Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have begun investigating 57 young men who were arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca. ...

LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Theocracy, Islam, Religious Police, Mutaween

Our Friends the Saudis

Tue, May 8, 2007 at 3:16 pm PDT

The Saudi religious police (the mutaween) descended on a group of Canadian women at an education exhibition in Jeddah and closed their booth. RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi organizers of an education exhibition in the conservative kingdom closed a Canadian booth because it was staffed by women, Canada’s embassy in Riyadh ...

Mutaween, Islamic Law, Sharia, Canada, Misogyny, Shari'a, LGF, Saudi Arabia, Islam, Radical Islam