Saudi religious police medival age attitudes towards women!

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Arab news
German tourism reps leave expo after Haia behavior — report

By ARAB NEWS

Published: May 26, 2011 21:55 Updated: May 26, 2011 21:55

RIYADH: Outraged over the maltreatment of one of its female representatives by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia), the German Tourism Commission abruptly bowed out Wednesday of the Riyadh International Exhibition for Travel.

Regional director for sales and marketing at the German National Tourist Office in Gulf Antje Roeding said the men took offense to the red stripes on the German woman's abaya. They also demanded that she not speak to male visitors, according to a report in Thursday's Al-Riyadh newspaper.

“We will stop our participation in the exhibition because of the strange conduct of some men who entered the exhibition in a frightening manner," the report quoted Roeding as saying.

The representative said the men were the only people at the event who behaved deplorably, and that all of the other Saudi attendees behaved in a "polite and ideal manner."

He added that the woman was pushed to the point of tears by the ill manners of the men who forced her to leave. She was escorted from the building and ordered into a taxi.

The woman, who was not identified by name, said she and other foreign women at the event were careful to respect local traditions by wearing abayas and covering their hair.

“After this incident we plan not to come to Saudi Arabia or participate in any future occasion,” the woman was quoted by the paper as saying.

© 2010 Arab News

 

[roadrunner]

the germans ban some saudi stuff, so the saudis ban some german stuff.

what do the saudis find offensive about red stripes?

 

[pak-marine]

religious police , what do they do exactly ? ... the sort of news we hear from saudi it seems they need moral policing than religion

 

[Stealth IFV]

religious police , what do they do exactly ? ... the sort of news we hear from saudi it seems they need moral policing than religion

Iran has a moral police. They usually beat up young kids for having parties, and they kidnap suspected pre-marital couples. However I feel strongly that the world needs to stop putting their noses in each others business. If the people are too scared to stand up and voice discontent, let them suffer.

 

[Roybot]

Nut cases. They don't realise that they came out of a woman too.

 

[Last Hope]

I hate muttawwas (Religious Police) for many stupid things.
@PakMarine. They are special branch of police who are out during prayer times to ensure all shops are clossed, they catch flirts and ladies in indecent dresses. They are meant to be Peace keeping, and they actually are good. But, once they go insane, they wont leave you!

 

[pak-marine]

Iran has a moral police. They usually beat up young kids for having parties, and they kidnap suspected pre-marital couples. However I feel strongly that the world needs to stop putting their noses in each others business. If the people are too scared to stand up and voice discontent, let them suffer.

wow what knuckleheads .. saudi with religious police , irans moral police .... any other sort of policing we aware of ?

 

[Pfpilot]

Interesting...moral police employed by those who threw their morals out the window long ago. Apparently, it is ok to rob your nation of its precious resources and use it to buy Ferraris, but how dare a lady show some skin, or worse, a couple of youngsters getting too touchy...sigh..how is this relevant to the running of a country...let the people be free.
This has less to do with religion and more to do with the idea of dictators controlling every aspect of public life in order to keep strict control over a population, in order to prevent it from ever becoming organized enough to overthrow these people.