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1. #252437
   On February 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 am, Outlander said:

   I thought the Commission for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue had independent arrest authority. Maybe that authority only pertains to women. (Remember how the Saudi religious police allowed like 10 girls to die in a school fire, because they forbade the girls from leaving the burning building without their heads covered?)

   Anyway, at least the Saudis are not discriminating on the basis of gender…

2. #252440
   On February 23rd, 2008 at 11:39 am, procopy said:

   Can’t get “A Night at the Roxbury” out of my head.

3. #252441
   On February 23rd, 2008 at 11:39 am, reine.de.tout said:

   pagan Christian holiday

   What??? Never heard of one of these…

4. #252443
   On February 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 am, lasertech said:

   Ah the Mutawas, one of the many reasons I don’t miss living in the Magic Kingdom anymore.

5. #252446
   On February 23rd, 2008 at 11:56 am, Mixer14 said:

   Still a double standard here.

   The men haven’t reportedly been physically attacked, beaten while under arrest, forced to write confessions and then be beaten, or stoned to death.

6. #252447
   On February 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm, Jeddite said:

   Flirting with the opposite sex is illegal. Flirting with the same sex is illegal. What’s a single guy to do on a Friday night in Riyadh?

7. #252450
   On February 23rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm, gayle said:

   Oh, but they can kill.

   Makes sense to me.

8. #252451
   On February 23rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm, Kevlaur said:

   I spent some time there from 2000 to 2001 (yea, go figure…). Anyway, there were then many, many young men with not a whole lot to do. I’m glad they are thinking about what normal young men should think about.

   Mutawa are knuckleheads. But, we there was a restaurant owner that closed his doors and let us stay in and eat during prayer time. He could have gotten into a lot of trouble.

9. #252455
   On February 23rd, 2008 at 12:31 pm, pedro4 said:

   We need to send Kevin Bacon over there to teach those country folk how to party.

10. #252457
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 12:36 pm, zorro said:

    a futile attempt at mind control.

11. #252464
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm, TXRose said:

    Would like to know what constitutes indecent clothes on young men. Western? No
    nighties worn outside with the requisite beard and head cover? And, were they dancing
    middle eastern style ( like “sugar boys” ) or western style? These are pertinent questions because if this had been females, none of this would have mattered. They
    more than likely would have been lashed or stoned on the spot.

12. #252465
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 12:56 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    Isn’t it the girs’ fault anyway? One would think if they’d been wearing their tent, oops, I mean burka, then they wouldn’t have gotten the young men all riled up. How dare the young women of the Holy City not happily and willingly deny their own feminity, personality, and humanity?

    There may be a touch of sarcasm in that paragraph.

13. #252467
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm, MDH3 said:

    killjoys. Boys just wanna have fun.

14. #252469
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm, TXRose said:

    OT…Great video of a soldier and an Iraqi at a check
    point.

    http://themoderatevoice.com/war/iraq/17970/talking-smack/

15. #252470
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 1:11 pm, rightisright said:

    Tks TR, i needed a good laugh…the funny part is bet most the soldiers feel just that way…”boys wanna play come on out let’s play” lmao

16. #252471
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm, rightisright said:

    Thanks to all the soldiers that keep us safe from the ills of the world…now if we could just get our politicians to act the same way.

17. #252477
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 1:26 pm, groundhunter said:

    Barach Obama should go talk to them.

18. #252486
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 1:50 pm, nyc123me said:

    “Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.”

    It’s still ok to drill holes in people’s heads though, right?

19. #252491
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 2:04 pm, purplepeep said:

    The men are accused of wearing indecent clothes, playing loud music and dancing in order to attract the attention of girls, the Saudi Gazette reported.

    Throw in a keg or two and it’s “all their rowdy friends comin’ over tonight” for these boys!

20. #252495
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 2:07 pm, behiker said:

    “pagan Christian holiday”? Nah, can’t be. Otherwise, the ACLU would be screaming to ban it from schools. And, I don’t remember anyone saying “Happy Holiday” on February 14.

21. #252497
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm, graysonret said:

    Jeddite, you’re supposed to go pray at the mosque. That way the clerics know they still control you. It’s not about God, it’s about power. In societies where one family rules, those who have massive egos have to find power in other ways. Religion, down through the centuries, have always been the route.

22. #252500
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm, NotaSlickFan said:

    TXRose Thanks for the belly laugh! That was classic. “Wear your seat belt and drink milk”! Bwahaa! Thanks twice!

23. #252505
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 2:28 pm, Blind_Mule said:

    Indecent clothing and loud music, what is wrong with the youth of today. I wonder if they were sagging and playing hip hop. Thump ThumpThump, (Break Dance Spin) Yo!, Biatch! take that burka off and come play with daddy.

    Typical Islamic crap

    Thank you God for letting me be born in the good ole U.S.A.

24. #252508
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 2:34 pm, brooklyn red said:

    100 years from now, maybe sooner I hope, history books will tell the story of how the Arab world was conquered by MTV… I wonder how long till the next Internet cable gets severed by an anchor?

25. #252509
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 2:35 pm, greggtex said:

    It’s no wonder Saudi young men get mad and want to blow something up. I just wish they would stay in their country to do it.

26. #252523
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm, right_on said:

    The mutaween enforce Saudi Arabia’s conservative facist brand of Islam, Wahhabism.

    There, that’s more like it!

    And the “mutaween?” More like mutant-weenies!

27. #252525
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 3:30 pm, gandolphxx said:

    It had to be the fault of the women, must have been a small piece of skin showing – you know these muslims, beserk around a woman.

28. #252532
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm, Jim M. said:

    Looks like the Saudis’ are the new LOVE NAZIS: “NO LOVE FOR YOU!”

29. #252534
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm, twoninerkilo said:

    Unreal! No wonder they want to kill themselves.

30. #252540
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm, Papa Louie said:

    I wonder what the punishment is for flirting? Now, if they had committed rape, the boys would have been excused and the girls would have been arrested and punished for being with a non-relative male.

31. #252544
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 4:30 pm, brooklyn red said:

    “flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca.”

    Shopping centers in Mecca? Anyone else find that weird?… and what are females doing in Mecca in the first place? Aren’t girls iccky unclean…

32. #252546
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm, graysonret said:

    Those kids really screwed up with flirting. You don’t flirt in Mecca. You and your friends grab them, rape them, and stand back while the girls are punished. Isn’t that the way it works over there? The girls get 100 lashes and the boys head back to the center for more “loose women”.

33. #252561
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 5:17 pm, JohnHolliday said:

    A while back, don’t remember when, there was an article in The American Spectator about how islam controls the male youth. It’s done through polygamy. Since some men can have more than one wife, others will have none. In some instances, young girls (around the age of 10) are promised or even married to an older man, who might already have multiple wives.

    The male youth have nowhere to channel their sexual energy. Enter the jihadis.

    This is just more proof that islam does not want any intrusion from Western Culture which is based in Christianity.

    On a lighter note…but it is in the same vein.

34. #252589
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 pm, TexasTiger said:

    On February 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm, Jeddite said:

    Flirting with the opposite sex is illegal. Flirting with the same sex is illegal. What’s a single guy to do on a Friday night in Riyadh?

    For children, a woman; for pleasure, a boy; for sheer ecstasy, a goat!
    –Mo Hamid

35. #252596
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 7:41 pm, Tennessee Dave said:

    Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice

    We’ll never have to worry about the dimocraps setting up something like this. It would cramp their style.

    On February 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm, Jeddite said:
    Flirting with the opposite sex is illegal. Flirting with the same sex is illegal. What’s a single guy to do on a Friday night in Riyadh?

    Maybe take a trip to the zoo.

36. #252615
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm, sausage said:

    Meanwhile in Israel, women are sent to the back of the bus…

    Of course as they are ultra-Orthodox Jews and not Muslims, that kind of story is off limits…..I wonder why?…..

37. #252619
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 9:21 pm, gandolphxx said:

    Sausage, how can the story be ‘off limits’, it was published?

    I am trying to find the connection here – I guess a rabbi would punish young orthodox Jewsish boys who flirted with the young ladies in the back of the bus???

    In any event this ’sex segregation’ is hardly the rule in most of Israel and most Israeli women dress well, drive and are treated with respect.

38. #252634
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 10:14 pm, TXRose said:

    Let’s see….Orthodox Jewish men vary in their treatment of
    women. Some will not touch a woman who isn’t a relative,
    even to simply shake hands. Others will refuse to talk to a
    woman under the same circumstances. Then, there is the little matter of those awful wigs orthodox women wear to cover their hair. There are other things but we’ll leave them
    alone. Is it any wonder, considering that the Koran dips so
    freely into Judaism that their mistreatment of women has gone overboard?

39. #252638
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 10:38 pm, TexasTiger said:

    On February 23rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm, sausage said:

    that kind of story is off limits…..I wonder why?…..

    Because Israel will use democratic institutions to resolve this issue. How boring.

40. #252640
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 10:45 pm, brooklyn red said:

    sausage, I went to school with an Israeli woman who commanded a squad of IDF tanks…

41. #252648
    On February 23rd, 2008 at 11:09 pm, jeffshultz said:

    Maybe because the Orthodox Jews will be criticized within Israel for their actions?

42. #252905
    On February 24th, 2008 at 6:23 pm, FuManchu said:

    As every G&S fan knows, the punishment for flirting is decapitation; they got off relatively lightly.

43. #252911
    On February 24th, 2008 at 6:53 pm, englishqueen01 said:

    What’s a single guy to do on a Friday night in Riyadh?

    Well, he could marry his underage cousin or a non-Muslim woman in a “temporary” marriage, engage in acts of jihad or participate in an honor killing.

    Meanwhile in Israel, women are sent to the back of the bus…

    Of course as they are ultra-Orthodox Jews and not Muslims, that kind of story is off limits…..I wonder why?…

    Again, a typical lack of perspective. As TexasTiger said, Israel has democratic institutions that will take care of the matter.

    When Orthodox Jews start blowing up busses with trouser-wearing women, engage in gang-rape of non-Orthodox women, or start beheading non-Orthodox Jews, then we’ll talk.

    When Orthodox Jews – or the members of pretty much any other religion – commit widespread acts of terror on a global scale, numbering in the tens of thousands since 9/11/2001, then we’ll talk.

    When Orthodox Jews engage in honor killings, or treat women’s testimony as less than half a man’s, or behead apostates who convert away from Judaism, then we’ll talk.

    In the meantime, stop frantically searching for ways to prove you’re so multicultural and focus on the fact that Islam – time and again – is proving itself a violent, dangerous, controlling religion.