Saudi Religious Police Launch outrageously bigoted Website

www.memri.org...

The Al-Madina regional branch of the Saudi religious and morality police, formally known as "The Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices," recently launched its new website.[1] The site posts news items, citizens' violations, and includes a section that allows citizens to inform anonymously on persons they suspect of violating religious and moral laws

Book burning:
findarticles.com...

Basic paranoid intolerance:
www.jihadwatch.org...

Mysoginist sexist behaviour:
www.timesonline.co.uk...

www.guardian.co.uk...

During a school fire in Mecca in March they reportedly drove back girls who tried to escape without wearing headscarves, and prevented male rescuers from entering the building on the grounds that they would be "mixing" with the opposite sex. Fourteen girls died in the blaze.

Yesterday Amnesty International was sceptical about the training programme. "Saudi Arabia's religious police have an appalling record of brutality and discrimination going far beyond failings with interpersonal skills," a spokesman said. "Their track record includes making violent and arbitrary arrests, subjecting women in particular to taunts and vicious beatings, and lashing out at people taken into detention

Decapitiated for supernatural witchcraft?


Other outrages against freedom of expression:

Banning dogs and cats as pets:
www.foxnews.com...

Banning red items on Valentine's day:
www.boingboing.net...

Banning fashion:
www.ft.com...

Lets just hope this unhinged,religious mindset does not get too much of a foothold here in the West and these extremist religious sociopaths are never afforded a modicum of legitimacy for their intolerant,prejudiced,sexist,bigoted opinions.





[edit on 02/10/08 by karl 12]