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06-09-2010 , 03:59 PM

Maximum Rocknroll

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I suppose maybe this is Islam's version of "Nun Excommunicated After Saving a Mother's Life With Abortion"

"Women in Saudi Arabia should give their breast milk to male colleagues and acquaintances in order to avoid breaking strict Islamic law forbidding mixing between the sexes, two powerful Saudi clerics have said. They are at odds, however, over precisely how the milk should be conveyed."

"Unlawful mixing between the sexes is taken very seriously in Saudi Arabia. In March 2009, a 75-year-old Syrian widow, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, living in the city of Al-Chamil, was given 40 lashes and sentenced to six months in prison after the religious police learned that two men who were not related to her were in her house, delivering bread to her."

Of course atheists and Christians (two biggest groups here) agree that Islam is a slightly more crazy and strict religion/culture (let's not pick nits about separating the two). But to me these two stories seem relatively in line. Crazy ass ideas about telling people how to live their life -----> crazy ass ideas about how to punish them -----> crazy ass ideas about how to make those crazy ass ideas seem less crazy.

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06-09-2010 , 04:40 PM

MelchyBeau

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You must remember that Saudi Arabia is run completely by Wahhabiists. These are the most fundamental loonies you can find on the planet. They are the equivalent of the Westboro baptist church (much worse actually). They consider most other muslims infidels, especially Shia muslims.

The muhammed cartoon protests for example were primarily Wahhabi fueled. Al-Quida is Wahhabi, the Taliban is Wahhabi.

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06-09-2010 , 04:44 PM

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Women are fighting back

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In an unprecedented outburst toward Saudi Arabia's religious police, a married woman shot at several officers in a patrol car after she was caught in an "illegal seclusion" with another man in the province of Ha'il on Tuesday. LA Times has more.

"She shot at the officers to distract them and allow the man to escape instant detention," said Sheik Mutlak al Nabet, a spokesman for the religious police in Ha'il. He added that the unnamed woman's husband has filed an official report, asking for his wife to be punished and stripped of her Saudi nationality.

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Saudi media report that the woman is Syria-born and recently obtained Saudi citizenship after living for years in the kingdom. Her male compatriot is still at large. The incident occurred only few days after the Saudi daily newspaper, Okaz, reported that a religious cop was taken to hospital with bruises after being punched by a woman in her 20s in the city of Al Mubarrazz.

The paper wrote that the young lady got violent with the officer after he asked her and man she was with at a public park to verify their relationship. Despite the possibility of facing imprisonment or lashing, the woman's fisticuffs was hailed by Saudi human rights activist Wajiha Huwaidar.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/baby...-officers.html

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06-10-2010 , 12:53 PM

SixT4

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The story in the OP is ridiculous. It's beyond ******ed. She's 75. She's getting bread delivered. Unless she's actually getting "bread" "delivered" I don't see what the problem is.

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06-10-2010 , 01:05 PM

SixT4

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"The man should take the milk, but not directly from the breast of the woman,"

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06-10-2010 , 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by SixT4

The story in the OP is ridiculous. It's beyond ******ed. She's 75. She's getting bread delivered. Unless she's actually getting "bread" "delivered" I don't see what the problem is.

It is ridiculous, but unfortunately these are not at all isolated incidences, stories like this are very common out of Saudi Arabia and other muslim countries, especially the ones that use some form of sharia law. I don't remember the details exactly but IIR there was a story not too long ago about a young girl is Saudi Arabia that was raped by 3 adult males and when the rape was reported she was arrested and imprisoned for adultery... ****ing religionists are disgusting.

to quote the tag line of one of my favorite podcasts: "dogma makes you crazy"

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