Saudi Arabia: American Woman Jailed for sitting with Man

[Darthphere]

I do hate being bruised and crying.

It happens.

 

[Carcharodon]

WTF??













Starbucks is in Saudi Arabia? Jesus...they're taking over....

 

[William_C]

I wonder if they have any specials

 

[Dorian Gray]

Edit:

 

[zanos]

What a great way to excuse ****ed up, idiotic laws. *applauds*

Who's excusing it? If there was a country where they say men are not allowed or I'll be jailed I certainly wouldn't go there.

 

[Superman4ever]

Go Islam!

Stupid comment. Most Muslims despise Saudi Arabia. What you should be cheering is 'Go West'! Who put this tyrannous government in power for cheap oil!

 

[Docker2.0]

Who's excusing it? If there was a country where they say men are not allowed or I'll be jailed I certainly wouldn't go there.

Believe it or not, I agree with what you said. You shouldn't go to a place until you know the law. There are just some places I aint' goign cuase I know they have f-ed up laws. Zanos isn't justifying the law, just saying she should have made sure that she knew the rules before going there. What american in their right mind would go to Iran now and say "Muhammad was gay" and expect to leave that country alive? Noone.

 

[The Professor]

When I first read the title I thought it said "on" instead of "with"...

Either way that's pretty wild.

 

[DV8]

it's about time they started cracking down on these women sitting with men all willy nilly!!! who do they think they are!?!?! humans or something!?!!

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm a Muslim female and I'm setting beside a dude right now, I guess I'm screwed. Seriously that country is run by a bunch of closeted women hating ******s.

I'm not even going to respond to those anti islamic posts.

Understand this: I'm a mulism female and I would never ever live in that country. The American goverment actually supports that country, a country that thinks that it's okay to rape women? A country that treats women as less than human?

G-d bless this mess.

 

[MetalloX]

Go Islam!

Go Bigoted generalization!
Also: Fox News,Bull****.

 

[Whirlysplat]

I had better not post my thoughts on this kind of behaviour from islamic nations. I remember the last time I did.

Sod it! I will..........

Spoiler

Disgusting

 

[Memphis Slim]

American Woman Jailed in Saudi Arabia for Sitting With Men at Starbucks

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia's religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh, according to a report in The Times of London on Thursday.
Yara, who does not want her last name published for fear of retribution, was bruised and crying when she was freed from a day in prison after she was strip-searched, threatened and forced to sign false confessions by the Kingdom's “Mutaween” police, The Times reported.
“Some men came up to us with very long beards and white dresses. They asked ‘Why are you here together?'. I explained about the power being out in our office. They got very angry and told me what I was doing was a great sin,” recalled Yara, who wears an abaya and headscarf, like most Saudi women.
The men were from Saudi Arabia's Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a police force of several thousand men charged with enforcing dress codes, sex segregation and the observance of prayers.
Yara says she was interrogated, strip-searched and forced to sign and fingerprint a series of confessions pleading guilty to her “crime,” the Times reported.
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Yara was visited yesterday by officials from the American Embassy, who promised they would file a report.

70 year old woman burned alive because she wanted to be baptized a Christian.

A middled-age school teacher jailed and threaten with death for a teddy bear.

Now this......


The hits just keep on coming. Can't wait til next week's news.

 

[Docker2.0]

wow. it's all women to. Why would any woman want to become a muslim in that part of the world?!

 

[FaT_tONle]

Hopefully when a nuclear bomb or an asteroid goes off... the Middle East will be the first thing that is hit other than Antartica... although that might melt more ice so it might as well be the Mid East...

 

[Whirlysplat]

Most of the middle east and Africa are hell holes. Religious extremism, Aids, despots, Islam.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

“Some men came up to us with very long beards and white dresses. They asked ‘Why are you here together?'. I explained about the power being out in our office. They got very angry and told me what I was doing was a great sin,”

****ing
IDIOTS.

a "great sin".
What kind of sick, demented nightmare are they living in where that is a "great sin" ?


Well, I've only ever heard these freaks referred to as the "Morality Police of Saudi Arabia".
The "Mutaween", It's nice to have the name for some of the most deranged, pathetic, evil ****s on Earth."


These are the bastards who, on video, stood outside a textile place, where only women worked, that was on fire, so they could watch, and if a woman wasn't covered, they'd beat her with sticks and force back inside the burning building.

Beyond sick, I hope they all get reincarnated as women or homosexuals.

 

[zanos]

The same goes for family members as well. If you are related to the other person and they happen to be female same rules apply.