May 24, 2010

In Saudia Arabia, Muslim Woman Charged With Being "Blatantly Anti-Muslim"
— Ace

It's a three-act drama. Starts with a problem, the problem escalates, then the villain gets the shit beaten out of him by a girl and they have a happy ending.

Although I don't know about the last part, alas.

When a Saudi religious policeman sauntered about an amusement park in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Al-Mubarraz looking for unmarried couples illegally socializing, he probably wasnÂ’t expecting much opposition.

But when he approached a young, 20-something couple meandering through the park together, he received an unprecedented whooping.

A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Saudi religious police known locally as the HaiÂ’a, asked the couple to confirm their identities and relationship to one another, as it is a crime in Saudi Arabia for unmarried men and women to mix.

For unknown reasons, the young man collapsed upon being questioned by the cop.

According to the Saudi daily Okaz, the woman then allegedly laid into the religious policeman, punching him repeatedly, and leaving him to be taken to the hospital with bruises across his body and face.

“To see resistance from a woman means a lot,” Wajiha Al-Huwaidar, a Saudi women’s rights activist, told The Media Line news agency. “People are 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. This is just the beginning and there will be more resistance.”

CAIR put out a statement calling the Muslim woman a "deranged anti-Muslim whore."

And then, thinking about it, CAIR put out a statement denouncing itself as "blatantly anti-Muslim."

You know, I think, seriously, if you're pro-life and anti-murder, you're currently, in our non-elite elites' telling, "blatantly anti-Muslim."

Thanks to Kratos, picking his nose on Mount Olympus.

Related: Saudi Religious Police Arrest "Emo" Girls. And who says Saudi Religious Police are all bad?


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1 But what was this woman's ultimate fate?  I don't know if that would qualify as an happy ending.

Posted by: runningrn at May 24, 2010 12:02 PM (CfmlF)

2 Any word whether the offender was a horse-faced, septegenarian blond woman?

Posted by: Truman North at May 24, 2010 12:03 PM (e8YaH)

3 ...picking his nose on Mount Olympus.

Heh.

Posted by: SlaveDog at May 24, 2010 12:03 PM (W+E+o)

4 I love it when runningrn mentions happy endings

Posted by: Truman North at May 24, 2010 12:04 PM (e8YaH)

5 But I drank her milk! She's my momma!

Posted by: Ahmed, Clever Little Fucker at May 24, 2010 12:06 PM (VXBR1)

6 When will Rand Paul learn his lesson.

Posted by: Obviously at May 24, 2010 12:06 PM (wuv1c)

7 Kratos

Worthy of a hat tip and an insult. You, my friend, have hit the big time.

Posted by: jcjimi at May 24, 2010 12:06 PM (ay6+/)

8 OT: the Dow closed down 126 points to 10,066, much of the drop coming in the last minutes of trading. We might break the 10,000 barrier tomorrow.

Posted by: Monty at May 24, 2010 12:06 PM (4Pleu)

9
Kratos, picking his nose on Mount Olympus.

Is that a euphemism?  Cause he talks about playing with his 'sword' quite a lot, IYKWIMAITTYD.

Posted by: Some Dang Straights at May 24, 2010 12:08 PM (fx8sm)

10 For unknown reasons, the young man collapsed upon being questioned by the cop.


Yeah, I wonder why he passed out.

Posted by: Dr. Spank at May 24, 2010 12:09 PM (sGwNK)

11

OT: the Dow closed down 126 points to 10,066, much of the drop coming in the last minutes of trading. We might break the 10,000 barrier tomorrow.

 

Monty, you are such a ray of sunshine--yeesh!  Oh, and Hi Truman North!


Posted by: runningrn at May 24, 2010 12:10 PM (CfmlF)

12

For unknown reasons, the young man collapsed upon being questioned by the cop.

I saw this couple on Gghgheraldo in the 80's....the one that colapsed was born a woman and the one that beat the cop was born a man. They each had sex change operations. However, don't get all homophobe because technically, they are still heterosexxxxxxxxual.

Posted by: rightzilla at May 24, 2010 12:10 PM (rVJH4)

13 She acted stupidly.

Posted by: DarkLordOfTheIntarWebs at May 24, 2010 12:12 PM (Xu5Z7)

14
Some emo girls got picked up over there by the po-po, too. 

Man.. WTF?  Emo girls in Saudi Arabia? 

They infect us with their shit, we're gonna infect them with ours.


Posted by: IreneFingIrene at May 24, 2010 12:12 PM (JKe0g)

15 Sockpuppet fail, I suck today...

Posted by: DarkLordOfTheIntarWebs at May 24, 2010 12:12 PM (Xu5Z7)

16 I would point out that the Brits were far ahead on the "anti-muslim" label, from the left side (the side with islam's boot on their neck), when they started calling jihadi bombers to be "anti-muslim" bombers, since they 'smeared islam' - as if islam could possibly be smeared.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 24, 2010 12:12 PM (Qp4DT)

17

It's a holiday in Saudi Arabia

where your kid's ass is graaassssss!!

Posted by: Jello Biafra at May 24, 2010 12:13 PM (90oki)

18 Actually, I was mistaken, above. The left has islam's balls in their mouth more than its boot on their neck. The left only likes putting its boot on the neck of Americans and private business. It loves sucking islam's balls, though.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 24, 2010 12:14 PM (Qp4DT)

19 Just curious what is a Saudi "Amusement Park"? Do they kill Jews? Hang Gays? Just asking?

Posted by: nevergiveup at May 24, 2010 12:15 PM (0GFWk)

20 All these recent posts are the "feast or famine" thingy Vic referred to?

Posted by: Ed Anger at May 24, 2010 12:16 PM (7+pP9)

21 We denounce the cruel actions of this sad excuse for a "woman" and offer all support to the state of Saudi Arabia in this time of crisis.

Posted by: National Organization of Women at May 24, 2010 12:16 PM (pfStM)

22 Thanks to Kratos, picking his nose on Mount Olympus.

Oh my, an ht and a cheap shot, I'm moving up in the world! 

Worthy of a hat tip and an insult. You, my friend, have hit the big time.

Just was thinking that, lol.  I knew surfing on the Internets at "work" would pay off sometime, *sniff*.


Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 24, 2010 12:16 PM (9hSKh)

23 She must have had a lead sap under her burqua.

Posted by: Vic at May 24, 2010 12:16 PM (6taRI)

24 God love'em, these women will won't be satisfied until there's pole dancing on every street corner.

Posted by: Fritz at May 24, 2010 12:17 PM (GwPRU)

25

Hmm, from the BBC.  A story that NARAL, Planned Parenthood, NAG and all those feminazi organizations can get behind.  Muslim man supports the "pro-choice" movement:

A man in Jordan is reported to have been charged with murdering his teenage daughter after he cut an unborn baby he had fathered from her body.

The man confessed to raping his 19-year-old daughter for five years, judicial sources told the Jordan Times.

Police said the man, who has not been identified, handed himself in to police in the Zarqa region on Sunday.

The charges have shocked Jordanian officials who told reporters they had never seen anything like it.

In his testimony to police in the region north-east of Amman, the 46-year-old man said after he discovered that his daughter was pregnant with his child, he took a carpet-cutter and cut her open with it.

He then removed the 37-week-old foetus and threw it away, reports said.

"The 19-year-old woman died on Sunday morning of severe internal bleeding after her father performed an abortion to get rid of a five month old foetus to hide his crime," a police spokesman told the Agence France Presse news agency.

He stitched up the wound, but he could not stop her bleeding and she died soon after.

Posted by: runningrn at May 24, 2010 12:18 PM (CfmlF)

26 But what was this woman's ultimate fate?  I don't know if that would qualify as an happy ending.

FTA: Should the woman be charged, she could face a lengthy prison term and lashings for assaulting a representative of a government institution.

And that's if her family doesn't kill her.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 24, 2010 12:18 PM (mR7mk)

27 SILENCE,,,,,,,I KILL YOU!

Posted by: A - K- FLEM... at May 24, 2010 12:19 PM (rVJH4)

28
I'm not putting my lips on that.

Posted by: Mr Whoopi at May 24, 2010 12:20 PM (uFokq)

29

According to the Saudi daily Okaz, the woman then allegedly laid into the religious policeman, punching him repeatedly, and leaving him to be taken to the hospital with bruises across his body and face.

My guess: Black Widow in a burqa.

Posted by: Cicero at May 24, 2010 12:20 PM (QKKT0)

30 Monty, you are such a ray of sunshine--yeesh! It gets worse. The LIBOR rate (the interest rate banks charge each other for loans) is at the highest rate it's been since last June, and is still going up. The Euro is still tracking down, and Spain just nationalized one of their banks, leading investors to wonder if Spain is the next domino to fall. The good news? The "flight to safety" of institutional investors and the reserve status of the US Dollar means that we actually benefit in some ways from the chaos in European markets right now. But it won't last.

Posted by: Monty at May 24, 2010 12:20 PM (4Pleu)

31 bully for her!

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 24, 2010 12:20 PM (BpwZe)

32

Just was thinking that, lol.  I knew surfing on the Internets at "work" would pay off sometime, *sniff*.

 

Now you need to start doing your teary "thank you" speech.  You know the "Thanks to my mom and dad who without, none of this would be possible, thanks to my boss for giving me an uninteresting, dead end job that leaves me lots of time to be on AoS, Thanks to wherestherum for always keeping me stimulated to strive for more, thanks to Baby BoO...etc."

Posted by: runningrn at May 24, 2010 12:21 PM (CfmlF)

33

The hard up muslim was convinced that he was about to get his end away and his blood pressure was peaking, when he saw the thought police the sudden drop in pressure caused him to flake out, it's a no brainer.

 

Posted by: Cynical prick at May 24, 2010 12:21 PM (M+3t6)

34
37 weeks = five months?

Either way, a 37-month old 'fetus' is a what we humans call a baby.

Posted by: Mr Whoopi at May 24, 2010 12:22 PM (uFokq)

35

FTA: Should the woman be charged, she could face a lengthy prison term and lashings for assaulting a representative of a government institution.

And that's if her family doesn't kill her.

 

Yeah, I figured as much.


Posted by: runningrn at May 24, 2010 12:22 PM (CfmlF)

36

26 But what was this woman's ultimate fate?  I don't know if that would qualify as an happy ending.

FTA:
Should the woman be charged, she could face a lengthy prison term and lashings for assaulting a representative of a government institution.

And that's if her family doesn't kill her.

AND: remember this about their freakis laws:::: When a woman testifies in court, her testimony is only given 50% of the weight it would be given for a man to testify. (In essence, any time a male muslim says something that conflicts with what the woman says, his testimony is believed.) And to think parts of Canada actually support their legal system!

Posted by: rightzilla at May 24, 2010 12:22 PM (rVJH4)

37 #9  Is that a euphemism?  Cause he talks about playing with his 'sword' quite a lot, IYKWIMAITTYD.

heh.  One would have to possess the snout of Henry Waxman to pick their nose with the Blade of Olympus.

19 Just curious what is a Saudi "Amusement Park"? Do they kill Jews? Hang Gays? Just asking?

Those things, yes, but they also boast Disney plays with an "Islamic" theme.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 24, 2010 12:23 PM (9hSKh)

38

The good news? The "flight to safety" of institutional investors and the reserve status of the US Dollar means that we actually benefit in some ways from the chaos in European markets right now. But it won't last.

 

 

So here is my question, dear M&M's.  What should we all be doing with our money/investments?  (Besides the canned food, guns and ammo thing).  Seriously, is anyone rebalancing their portfolios?


Posted by: runningrn at May 24, 2010 12:24 PM (CfmlF)

39 if her family doesn't kill her, will his family be obligated to kill her?  and if his family doesn't kill her, will the policeman's family be obligated to kill her?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 24, 2010 12:24 PM (BpwZe)

40 Posted by: nevergiveup at May 24, 2010 04:15 PM (0GFWk)

Your views are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: A. Hitler at May 24, 2010 12:26 PM (qs11W)

41 37 weeks = five months?

Either way, a 37-month old 'fetus' is a what we humans call a baby.

Posted by: Mr Whoopi at May 24, 2010 04:22 PM (uFokq)

Maybe they're metric months.

Posted by: WalrusRex at May 24, 2010 12:27 PM (xxgag)

42 37 weeks = five months?

Either way, a 37-month old 'fetus' is a what we humans call a baby.
Posted by: Mr Whoopi at May 24, 2010 04:22 PM

But...is it a baby baby?

Posted by: jcjimi at May 24, 2010 12:27 PM (ay6+/)

43 39 if her family doesn't kill her, will his family be obligated to kill her?  and if his family doesn't kill her, will the policeman's family be obligated to kill her?

Either way, she's a marked woman.  If she can escape, she'd better do so.  She's most likely forfeited her life by beating down the religious policeman.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 24, 2010 12:28 PM (9hSKh)

44
what, we need to convert weeks into Euros now?

/Jackie Mason voice off

Posted by: Mr Whoopi at May 24, 2010 12:29 PM (uFokq)

45 Seriously, is anyone rebalancing their portfolios? The old advice is the best, I think: keep diversified, maybe go a little longer on commodities and precious metals. I generally never kept much gold/silver in my portfolio, but I increased it to 10% or so. (I hold precious metal in ETFs, though, not in actual metal; thus I'm not sure how much good it'll do me.) I think the market is actually over-correcting right now, and will swing back up as the summer wears on. So it's actually a good time to buy equities -- you're getting them cheap. Over the longer term, though? It's really hard to say. One thing I did was get my big-ticket purchases (a new car, for example) out of the way now. Rates are cheap, and when inflation hits (as it will, sooner or later), you can pay the debts off in inflated money.

Posted by: Monty at May 24, 2010 12:30 PM (4Pleu)

46

runningrn 25 Muslim man supports the "pro-choice" movement:

That's unfair; to pro-choicers, Muslims, and the Jordanians.

Islam considers incest a heinous sin, and Jordan considers it a crime. That's why the man figured that he needed to cover it up.

This isn't an Islamic or even tribal crime; it's just one evil monster, and we have enough of those in the Western world.

Posted by: the guy who says Rand Paul! at May 24, 2010 12:31 PM (9Sbz+)

47 I put all my money in stocks of money printing companies.

Posted by: Truman North at May 24, 2010 12:31 PM (e8YaH)

48

Stupid sock :^P

Point stands, however.

Posted by: Zimriel at May 24, 2010 12:31 PM (9Sbz+)

49
brb...

gotta take an unexpected pee

Posted by: Mr Whoopi at May 24, 2010 12:31 PM (uFokq)

50 Right now, if I had a pot to piss in, I'd have to save up for a window to throw it out of.

Posted by: RKS at May 24, 2010 12:31 PM (qs11W)

51 Islam considers incest a heinous sin Well...kind of. Arabs particularly, and Muslims more generally, are heavily into cousin-marriage. It keeps the wealth and influence inside the tribe. This remains true even when Arabs relocate to Western societies. This is why the birth-defect rate among Arabs tends to be four or five times what it is in the population at large.

Posted by: Monty at May 24, 2010 12:33 PM (4Pleu)

52
my volume of pee was unexpectedly high, economists said

Posted by: Mr Whoopi at May 24, 2010 12:34 PM (uFokq)

53 39 if her family doesn't kill her, will his family be obligated to kill her?  and if his family doesn't kill her, will the policeman's family be obligated to kill her?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 24, 2010 04:24 PM (BpwZe)

They'll probably force her to have sex with the Jordanian carpet trimmer.

Posted by: ontherocks at May 24, 2010 12:34 PM (HBqDo)

54
Michael Barone is on Jerry Doyle right now. I love this guy.

Posted by: Mr Whoopi at May 24, 2010 12:35 PM (uFokq)

55

Monty 51, Prohibited for you are... your daughters (Q. 4:23).

This guy broke the law of God and will probably get executed for it.

Posted by: Zimriel at May 24, 2010 12:36 PM (9Sbz+)

56 This aggression towards Emo girls will not stand!

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2010 12:37 PM (SVSE7)

57

Iran also has lovely religious policemen!

Iran holy city ups fine for unveiled women

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's second biggest city has massively increased the amount it fines for women who fail to observe the Islamic dress code and don't cover their hair properly, media reported. Morality police around Iran are beginning their annual spring crackdown on women wearing too much makeup, daring to show their hair or dressing in a way that shows their body contours too clearly.In the holy city of Masshad, the public prosecutor has increased the fine to 1.3 million tomans, roughly $1,300 -- a hefty sum in a country where a teacher's monthly salary is around $500.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 24, 2010 12:37 PM (9hSKh)

58 #55  This guy broke the law of God and will probably get executed for it.

A guy being charged for a sex crime in the ME?  Inconceivable!

/Unless it's for molesting his neighbor's camel.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 24, 2010 12:38 PM (9hSKh)

59

 "deranged anti-Muslim whore."

Bunk...

 

 

Posted by: dananjcon at May 24, 2010 12:40 PM (pr+up)

60

ticket purchases (a new car, for example) out of the way now. Rates are cheap, and when inflation hits (as it will, sooner or later), -you can pay the debts off in inflated money.

Tim, Tim, Timmeh!

Posted by: Timmeh! at May 24, 2010 12:41 PM (SVSE7)

61

Damn, that was a Bold comment...sorry, that's worse than being Italicized.

timmehpuppehtOFF!

Posted by: garrett at May 24, 2010 12:43 PM (SVSE7)

62 This remains true even when Arabs relocate to Western societies.

I think it was Stanley Kurtz who found that the rate of cousin-marriage among Pakistanis (I know they're not Arab; they are Muslim) was higher in Britain than in Pakistan.  It's a way to avoid assimilation and a way to import more of your village.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 24, 2010 12:44 PM (mR7mk)

63 Ever wanted to get back at Saudi Arabia but you don't want to kill anybody,,,,yet?

Revenge on a cause, country, people, media and any thing left over.
Not blood thirsty ... gasoline thirsty.

Posted by: robotgossip at May 24, 2010 01:02 PM (EiH7n)

64 I put all my money in stocks of money printing companies.

Printing money is just a euphemism; They don't actually print it anymore. They just make it magically appear in bank accounts. Otherwise we would have deforested the US by now.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at May 24, 2010 01:07 PM (0q2P7)

65 She's a dead woman walking -- if the Saudis haven't whacked off her head already.


Posted by: CLP at May 24, 2010 01:11 PM (jw/wu)

66

I like this one. I think Dad was against the marriage because the son-in-law's not an Arab.  And note that when being Canadian didn't allow him to control his daughter to the degree he wanted, he lured her onto Saudi soil.

Canadian's online plea for help reunites her with fiance after three years in captivity in Saudi Arabia

A Canadian student held captive for three years in Saudi Arabia under the kingdom’s controversial “guardianship” laws has been allowed to leave and marry her fiance after she issued a desperate online plea for help.

In a tale of star-crossed lovers that gripped newspaper readers on two continents, Nazia Quazi, a Canadian of Indian Muslim origin, fell in love with a fellow student, Bjorn Singhal, who was born to a partly Hindu family.

To prevent them marrying, her father used his power under the Saudi legal code to stop her leaving the country after she went on a visit. But following a campaign by supporters in Canada that was taken up by the media there and even in Saudi newspapers, he has now relented and allowed the marriage to take place in Dubai.

“I still can’t believe it,” Miss Quazi, 24, told reporters this week after the wedding. “I keep pinching myself and I keep pinching him.”

Despite attempts to reform the system by the current monarch, King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia still has the most conservative attitudes towards women of any country in the world.

The rules most obvious to outsiders are that unrelated men and women are not allowed to mingle, women must wear a head-covering outside at all times, and are not allowed to drive.

But more important for many residents is the need for all women, even the growing number of high-powered business executives, to conform to the wishes of their nearest male relative, usually a husband, father or brother, for all practical aspects of life.

Miss QuaziÂ’s father, Quazi Malik Abdul Gaffar, who worked in Saudi Arabia, used this law to try and cut off the romance that had developed between his daughter and Mr Singhal, an Indian who lives in Dubai.

The Quazi family had Canadian citizenship, and the pair met when they were both studying at Ottawa University.

Mr Singhal had a Hindu father and a Muslim mother, and although he practised Islam, Mr Gaffar did not approve of the relationship.

In 2007, while staying with her father in Saudi Arabia, she discovered her passport and other papers were missing. He refused to return them, and without his permission she was unable to buy an air ticket.

Earlier this year, after she wrote an online letter appealing for help, her case was taken up by Human Rights Watch and other groups in Canada, including Muslims for Progressive Values. Meanwhile, she and Mr Singhal maintained a fleeting relationship over the internet.

Mr Quazi and the rest of his family have refused to comment on why he eventually changed his mind. But Miss Quazi says she believes that in the glare of publicity, he eventually softened. She says she has now forgiven him.

“He wanted me to be happy, so he got me a ticket to come here” to Dubai, she said.

Both my parents really wanted me to get settled down and married.”

The success of the appeal also shows how powerful the internet is becoming in changing attitudes in previously closed societies. Saudi women, often now better educated than their male contemporaries, communicate via Facebook, even using it to run campaigns to increase their personal freedoms.

The couple were eventually married - in the presence of both families - in Dubai on Tuesday. “It was a great relief,” Mr Singhal, 29, said at his new family home in the neighbouring emirate of Sharjah.

“The hardest part was to wait for something to happen, that’s what really killed me,” Miss Quazi said, adding that the restrictions of life in Saudi Arabia had come as a shock. “I actually forgot what freedom was. I was [living] for three years in that closed environment.”

Mr Singhal said he had now reconciled with his father-in-law. “He hugged me, he spoke nicely to my mum,” Mr Singhal said.

“He said, ‘I only wanted the kids’ happiness,’ and that the ’kids chose the wrong path’. I didn’t want to argue with him. Let him blame us as he wants.”

Posted by: stuiec at May 24, 2010 01:21 PM (7AOgy)

67 "Blatantly anti-Muslim"...isn't that just another way of saying "rational, civilized, and sane"?

Posted by: Chainsaw Chimp at May 24, 2010 01:39 PM (k4bdL)

68 During Desert Storm, a female MPs assigned to protect some General got into it with one of the Saudi Religious police after he whacked her in the butt with a stick for being in the male portion of a restaurant. She apparently kicked his ass. The story went she got transferred to Germany with a nice letter in her file from the General she was protecting, who thought it was pretty hilarious.

Posted by: Gerry Owen at May 24, 2010 01:54 PM (W7JkV)

69 During Desert Storm, a female MPs assigned to protect some General got into it with one of the Saudi Religious police after he whacked her in the butt with a stick for being in the male portion of a restaurant.

Too bad we don't have a you-tube video of that, talk about going viral.

Posted by: Vic at May 24, 2010 02:11 PM (6taRI)

70 Venus Williams...not being shown in Saudi Arabia

Posted by: t-bird at May 24, 2010 02:14 PM (FcR7P)

71 You have to admit, George gave Saudi women balls.

Posted by: Laura Bush at May 24, 2010 02:54 PM (4FJoo)

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