Life in "The Kingdom"..... 75 Year old Syrian woman sentenced to 40 Lashes in Saudi Arabia.....

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/09/saudi.arabia.lashes/index.html

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports.

According to the Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan, troubles for the woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, began last year when a member of the religious police entered her house in the city of Al-Chamli and found her with two unrelated men, "Fahd" and "Hadian."

Fahd told the policeman he had the right to be there, because Sawadi had breast-fed him as a baby and was therefore considered to be a son to her in Islam, according to Al-Watan. Fahd, 24, added that his friend Hadian was escorting him as he delivered bread for the elderly woman. The policeman then arrested both men.

Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism and punishes unrelated men and women who are caught mingling.

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, feared by many Saudis, is made up of several thousand religious policemen charged with duties such as enforcing dress codes, prayer times and segregation of the sexes. Under Saudi law, women face many restrictions, including a strict dress code and a ban on driving. Women also need to have a man's permission to travel.

And we wonder why things are so fucked up. This is the country that feeds us our morning breakfast. GAS. This is the country that unleashes half a dozen 9/11 hijackers. Bush 1 and Bush 2 may as well have bent over and let their "Princes" do the dirty deed.



And we wonder why the Republican Party is the Party of No. This is the Republican Party. This is why they own their failure.

[Bobbieo]

1. With friends like these who needs enemies?