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Arabia
Mutawwa ‘Attacker’ Says He Was Framed
2003-09-06
YANBU — A war of words has erupted in the wake of an alleged attack on members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice here, Al-Madinah said. Thirteen locals had reportedly attacked members of the commission in front of their offices in an attempt to rescue two men and two women the commission had arrested on the beach on suspicion of not being related to one another. One of the women escaped and all 13 alleged attackers were later arrested. One of the 13 now says the attack was motivated by members of the commission kicking and pulling the hair of one of the women in their custody in front of witnesses. The commission denies this.
"No, no! Certainly not! We're Arabs, after all. Why would we lie?"
Ahmad Hamed Al-Refaie, 30, told the newspaper: “I was on my way to my cousin’s house when I saw a member of the commission dragging a girl into the street by her hair. She saw me and started calling for help. I told the mutawwa to leave her alone because he has no right to arrest her. He was not accompanied by a police officer and he wasn’t riding an official car.” The commission has no powers of arrest.
"We don' need no stinkin' powers of arrest!"
Al-Refaie said an argument then erupted between him and the commission member, who continued to assault the woman. “He beat her up badly with a wooden stick. Other people tried to help, but he threatened to kill me,” he said. After Maghreb prayer that evening, Al-Refaie said, the commission member accompanied by some 20 men including his brothers went to his house and beat him unconscious with metal bars. “If I was in the wrong, why didn’t he simply come with the police and have me arrested?” Al-Refaie asked.
Because you live in a theocratic dictatorship, dimbulb.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#7  This episode is like an 8-week old baby starting to pick its head up.

They're starting to grow up, I just wish we had time on our side to watch them do it on their own.

But we don't.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-9-7 3:11:08 AM  

#6  Hodadenon:

You don't know what you are speaking about. This guy was not in America. In such kinds of dictatorships a
cop can have you liquidated with all your family just because he disliked the color of your shoes. This guy needed a pair of really big ones to do what he did. Read the Gulag Archipielago: _everyone_ dirtied at the mere sight of one of the KGB guys, and this was the people who later fought at Stalingrad.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-9-6 5:15:17 PM  

#5  Non, non! Zey are all French on zere father's side! Zey just don't know it!
Posted by: Fred   2003-9-6 4:21:16 PM  

#4  I forgot tire irons. For ... hobbiest that are working on ... their hot rods. Yeh, there's the ticket.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-9-6 2:20:35 PM  

#3  I used to carry a bike chain around with me. Make sure you tape up the links so you don't cut your own fingers off if you use it. But it will do the job if you need it.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-9-6 2:06:08 PM  

#2  Al-Refaie said an argument then erupted between him and the commission member, who continued to assault the woman. “He beat her up badly with a wooden stick. Other people tried to help, but he threatened to kill me,” he said.

What a f**king wuss! Some jagoff is whaling on a female friend, the mighty woman-beater threatens to kill the guy if he helps her, so the balless wonder does nothing. No wonder the Arab armies suck. Are they all French on their mothers side?
Posted by: Hodadenon   2003-9-6 2:03:38 PM  

#1  Can we get the address of some of these folks that refused to bow down to Allah's Avengers? They have obviously lost the path of righteousness. We could all help by sending them "recreational supplies." Here is my suggested list of supplies to keep them busy so that the Jihad Vigalantees don't have to take matters into their own hands again:
1. Baseball bats
2. Bicycle chains
3. Socks full of pennies
4. Car antenas
5. Anything that an English soccer fan might take to the pitch.

This should keep the secularists from excess free time. As the prophet said, "idle at work is the bloodbrother of the destroyer."
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-9-6 1:56:17 PM  

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