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Arabia
Saudi religious police suspect elderly woman of sexual liaison
2006-06-11
RIYADH - A 70-year-old Saudi woman was briefly jailed after being detained by the religious police who suspected her motives for entering a shop owned by a man in a busy Riyadh market, a paper said on Saturday.

Members of the dreaded Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, known as Mutawas, descended on the shop in the capital’s Al Deira market on Tuesday after the woman entered the shop while there was no one inside except the male owner, the Saudi-owned Al-Hayat daily reported. “The commission suspected the woman was in “unlawful seclusion’ with the owner despite the fact that the shop’s shutters were wide open,” the paper said, employing a term commonly used in Saudi Arabia’s puritanical society to describe a sexual liaison.
"Dang it Granny, the windows are wide open! Don't! Stop! Don't! Stop! Don't Stop! Don't Stop ...
Quoting her nephew, the paper said the woman, who could barely walk, had gone missing after she went shopping.
"Uncle Ackmed, have you seen Grandma?"
"No, Mahmoud, not since she left the house for some sort of meeting."
"She ... left ... the house! Alone? Oh, Uncle, why did you let her go!?"
"She seemed rather pleased with herself."
Her family searched for her in hospitals and police stations all over the capital until they found her in a womanÂ’s prison late Tuesday. She was later released.
"And I hope you're happy with yourself, Grandma!"
Mutawas, who are attached to the countryÂ’s powerful religious establishment, are charged with enforcing the ultra-conservative kingdomÂ’s strict Islamic moral code including the segregation of the sexes in public. The interior ministry issued a decree on May 25 aimed at reining in the Mutawas by requiring them not to interrogate detained suspects, as they previously did, but to hand them over to police.
Worked well, didn't it.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  Sheesh. To quote Jim Rockford:
"Does your mother know what you do for a living?"
Posted by: mojo   2006-06-11 12:34  

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