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In Saudi Arabia, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is a religious police force that has been a constant presence in the Kingdom arresting woman having coffee with colleagues or forcing young girls to burn to death in fire rather than run out without their scarves. Then there was the time that the religious police in Dammam marched into a popular dinosaur exhibit and shut it down without any explanation of why the dinosaurs threatened the virtue of good Muslims. Then there was the flogging of a women who insulted them . Then there are the round ups of religious people for simply praying at home . Then there is the arrest of a man for standing in line with his wife at a grocery store. The list goes on and on. The latest entry is the arrest of young men for simply dancing at a birthday party. Birthday parties have been denounced by Saudi clerics as unIslamic , but this the first such arrest that many can recall that did not involve dancing with women.
The Vice police in Buraydah arrested the men for “loud music and inappropriate dancing.” The charge reflected the medieval views of the dominant Wahhabi sect of Islam. The police said that the young men were in “a comprising situation in their dance and shameful movements.” There was even a birthday cake. There is enough to send the Vice police into a fence. Recall that grand mufti Sheik Abdul-Aziz bin Baz declared that “It’s not permissible to take part in them . Birthday parties are an innovation . . . and people are in no need of innovations.”
The Vice police also noted that they saw the hair styles of the men as non-traditional and said that such styles are dangerous and “can lead to immorality and even homosexuality.”
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++"'Birthday parties are an innovation . . . and people are in no need of innovations.'"
Nice to see one of these idiots finally admitting it, at least. Maybe they finally realized that it's better for their image to be openly opposed to all forms of human progress than it is to claim a scientific mindset while endorsing geocentrism and opposing basic biology and physics.
To be fair this happened in Qassim province, Saudi Arabia's version of the worst parts of the Deep South (incidentally,which state there gets the worst rep? I always thought it was Alabama, but Mississippi has been mentioned)
I should hope no religious police this totalitarian ever gains power here.
Oh, right, we have the American Fascist--I mean, Family Association. Let's hope these two groups die an ignominious death.
They truly are the most sexually repressed people in the world, perhaps even more than the creeps in Vatican City.
I wonder what these prudes would think of mullets.
SCFTPVPV, proudly marches into the 6th century
Just watch out for the plague, it hits up north pretty hard, might want to cancel that trip to the Byzantine Empire.
Birthday parties are an innovation . . . and people are in no need of innovations.
And that idea, "no need of innovations", is why Arabia remains a socially and morally backward country.
Every time religious morons mess with dinosaurs I feel I owe it to the world to cleanse the gene pool of these idiots with a flamethrower. These acts OTOH, are so horrendous I not only don't care about the dinosaurs, but I believe nukes would be an insufficient amount of force to deal with these bastards. I think using every medieval torture device on them simultaneously would be sufficient though.
..."forcing young girls to burn to death in fire rather than run out without their scarves."
This has to be the most horrible, WTF thing I've ever read.
Saudi mutaween : making cop-killing praiseworthy since 1932.
Note: he reference to "innovation" bid'ah is about bringing changes to religious practices, which is anathema to the Wahhabist Orthodoxy ruling Saudi Arabia.
@Yama the Space Fish
"Birthday parties are an innovation . . . and people are in no need of innovations.”"
Fine by me. Get back to fucking camels in front of your tent, then.
@LDM
I think that goes for all of us. Hopefully when it does they'll just dry up and blow away. According to the latest statistics we only have another 39 years to wait and all the oil on the planet, including theirs, will be gone.
@1774335, @1774336
Forcing someone to go to church to instill fire-and-brimstone beliefs, especially at such a young age, is pretty bad parenting.
Oh, and I'm sure the AFA would support similar measures, just dressed up in shiny suits and Jesus posturing.
And I notice you've been fixated on my posts as if your eyes were cyanoacryllically bonded to my keyboard. What am I supposed to do but take a hard line against fundamentalism? I am pointing out that we have the American Taliban over here too.
In fact, they used to be really, really violent. Ku Klux Klan violent. But multiple crackdowns and infiltrations led to the undoing of the bloody survivalist neo-Nazi wingnuts, just as desired. So now we're left with the fundies who dress in suits and screech from the pulpit or the keyboard about their unreasoned stances, and the Muslims have a fair number of those types too.
Seems a fair comparison.
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