20 Foreigners Sentenced To Prison And Lashes For Partying
I know you have to abide by the rules of a country but these are some harsh rules.
A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced.
The defendants were among 433 foreigners, including some 240 women, arrested by the kingdom's religious police for attending the party in Jiddah.
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which it bans alcohol and meetings between unrelated men and women.
The religious police, a force resented by many Saudis for interfering in personal lives, enjoys wide powers. Its officers roam malls, markets, universities and other public places looking for such infractions as unrelated men and women mingling, men skipping Islam's five daily prayers and women with strands of hair showing from under their veil.
Well, ... people will go to these places!!
Posted by: Jonathan | Tuesday, February 06, 2007 at 06:43 AM
USA USA USA!
Posted by: Eli | Wednesday, February 07, 2007 at 07:05 PM