Reading the following article this morning on Saudi life in today’s nYtimes, on ething struck me funny..how come all these secret police, religious police etc..have some elaborate names?
The woman, who asked not to be identified for fear of another arrest, said her father was ill so she went to his office to fill in and open the safe. The business was raided by the religious police, formally known as **The Society for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. **
“Don’t you fear God?” she recalls them screaming, demanding that she not address them from behind a desk because women don’t belong there. “It is a sin that you are sitting in this office around men.” The woman says one of the men groped her while ostensibly searching for drugs before dragging her kicking and screaming into an unmarked Toyota.
She had called her husband, but when he tried to collect her from the station, they pretended she was elsewhere. Instead they locked her into a roach-infested jail for a couple of days and forced her to endure an extended lecture by the prison’s religious sheik about the sin of adultery.
“He thought I was weeping because he was so convincing,” said the woman, pale and shaking a week after the ordeal.
...not so very hilarious if you're the one sitting in a roach infested cell and being groped by disgusting men who have a serious need to prove their superiority and manhood
