Re: WikiLeaks: Sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll – Saudi style
All other societies don’t have Vice police around.
Such parties are norm in Saudi society as long as some prince is invited. So the interesting question is not the presence of such elements (they are humans, after all), rather the question is where does the Vice police disappears when these parties are held in the presence of royals?
Compare it with what they do against commoners in the name of Islam.
Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers.
In a rare criticism of the kingdom’s powerful “mutaween” police, the Saudi media has accused them of hindering attempts to save 15 girls who died in the fire on Monday.
One witness said he saw three policemen “beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya”.
The Saudi Gazette quoted witnesses as saying that the police - known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice - had stopped men who tried to help the girls and warned “it is a sinful to approach them”.
“Lives could have been saved had they not been stopped by members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,” the newspaper concluded.
The religious police are widely feared in Saudi Arabia. They roam the streets enforcing dress codes and sex segregation, and ensuring prayers are performed on time.
**Those who refuse to obey their orders are often beaten and sometimes put in jail.
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Hypocrites.