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Saudi court convicts foreigners for drinking, dancing at party
2007-02-05
A Saudi Arabian court has convicted and sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison for attending a party where alcoholic drinks were served and men and women danced, a Saudi newspaper reported on Sunday. The kingdom’s religious police arrested 433 foreigners, including more than 240 women, for attending the “impudent” party in Jeddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz reported. It did not identify the foreigners, give their nationalities or say when the party took place.

Judge Saud al-Boushi sentenced the 20 to three to four month in prison and ordered them to receive an unspecified number of lashes. They have the right to appeal, the newspaper said. The prosecutor general charged the 20 with “drinking, arranging for impudent party, mixed dancing and shooting a video for the party,” Okaz said. The newspaper said because of the large number of detainees, several judges were assigned to try them in groups. The rest of the detainees are awaiting trial.
Posted by:Fred

#7  You heard correctly, JosephM. I think it's the eldest, whose name I can't remember, he's already a Muslim and has been pushing Michael to convert.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-02-05 23:49  

#6  Did I hear correctly, or did Michael Jackson's brother want him to convert to Islam???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-02-05 22:30  

#5  Bahrain, that's where Jacko went. He'll push the fronteers of tolerance leftward.
Posted by: wxjames   2007-02-05 19:36  

#4  Now, compare and contrast this set of punishments for just drinking and dancing at a party, to the punishments meted out in Bahrain for a couple caught having sex in public. This is exactly what I was talking about in yesterday's post, Bahrain is 13 centuries ahead of Saudi Arabia when it comes to what most Westerners would define as interpersonal relationships, and the rights of the individual.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2007-02-05 16:12  

#3  Here are some folks American academic feminists can "get into bed with".
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-02-05 09:30  

#2  Jeddah is, I'm told, what passes for the Las Vegas of Soodiland. They have gay friendly coffee houses, music parlours, massage therapy, etc. If you bribe the right people nothing happens. If you don't...
Posted by: mhw   2007-02-05 09:01  

#1  Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which it bans alcohol, meeting between unmarried men and women, women driving and people convicted of murder, drug trafficking, rape and armed robbery can be executed with a sword and in public as a deterrent.

...although rape and murder are way down on the list of punishable offenses...What about wealthy Saudis contributing to terrorists charities to buy weapons? What about funding hate-spewing imans? Where do these fall on the scale?

Posted by: JohnQC   2007-02-05 08:42  

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