Goodness gracious. I don't know if that was her crime or not - using toilet paper [which, of course, for reasons totally unfathomable to most of the civilized world, is not allowed in women's rooms here in the Sandbox]. The Hai'a, also known as the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or the Religious Police, physically removed a woman out of a restroom and beat her before forcing here into one of their vehicles. They did what?!! Dragged her out of a toilet! With "parts of her body exposed."
You have to wonder in stunned amazement what the woman could possibly have done to warrant such treatment and just shake your head that MEN in a country where women, supposedly, are never to be seen - let alone touched - by a men that are unrelated would enter a TOILET to remove a woman from such a "private" place. Unbelievable. Well, no, it isn't, really.
The story is here. No details on what the woman did prior to such a public spectacle. This. Done by an agency who just a week or so ago gave themselves praise for their new kinder, more gentle role. [I'm off to find the link so I can post it, here. Never mind. I've gone through two weeks of both papers, on-line, and I can't find the article. Maybe I saw it several weeks ago?] Umm hmm. Sure.
When I see several men dragging a screaming woman into a car (which happens most every day at the mall here, right Umm Mohamed) I always throw myself into the fray and attempt to rescue the woman from her captors. This is what civilized people are supposed to do unless the men are police officers. SO: do the Council have anything like uniforms they wear when kidnapping women? Do they have any legal authority to gan grape when not accompanied by a real police officer? If i did stomp four Matawah into the ground (and i can) would i get fifty years in prison or a round of applause? Do they only enforce their view of the law this enthusiastically when the woman is hot?
Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, there was a Woman who thought she was living the American Dream. Her childhood, although now not particularly memorable, was fairly normal. She went to school. She got a job. She met a tall, blonde and handsome pilot and married him. It was all good. They were the perfect “Ken and Barbie” couple. The handsome pilot built her the house of her dreams in North Carolina, where she thought they would live for the remainder of their many, many days to come. Circumstances, totally out of the control of this lovely Ken and Barbie couple, changed everything. Shortly afterward, they came to find themselves living a whole new life in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Oh, sure, they are still the perfect “Ken and Barbie” couple, but Barbie now wears an abeyah over her designer outfits when she leaves her house, she has given up her pink convertible because she is not allowed to drive, and she no longer has an office that she visits five days a week, instead choosing to spend her time as a stay-at-home wife and an over-protective, doting Mommy to their two absolutely adorable, much loved and very, very pampered four-legged “Kids.”
When I see several men dragging a screaming woman into a car (which happens most every day at the mall here, right Umm Mohamed) I always throw myself into the fray and attempt to rescue the woman from her captors. This is what civilized people are supposed to do unless the men are police officers. SO: do the Council have anything like uniforms they wear when kidnapping women? Do they have any legal authority to gan grape when not accompanied by a real police officer? If i did stomp four Matawah into the ground (and i can) would i get fifty years in prison or a round of applause? Do they only enforce their view of the law this enthusiastically when the woman is hot?
ReplyDeleteFive bucks says pocket rocket.
ReplyDeleteOf course, they don't exist over there...