From Yahoo:
A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The defendants were among 433 foreigners, including some 240 women, arrested by the kingdom’s religious police for attending the party in Jiddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz said. It did not identify the foreigners, give their nationalities or say when the party took place.
Judge Saud al-Boushi sentenced the 20 to prison terms of three to four months and ordered them to receive an unspecified number of lashes, the newspaper said. They have the right to appeal, it added.
The prosecutor general charged the 20 with “drinking, arranging for impudent [lacking modesty] party, mixed dancing and shooting a video for the party,” Okaz said.
The paper said the rest of those arrested were awaiting trial.
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which it bans alcohol and meetings between unrelated men and women.
The religious police, a force resented by many Saudis for interfering in personal lives, enjoys wide powers. Its officers roam malls, markets, universities and other public places looking for such infractions as unrelated men and women mingling, men skipping Islam’s five daily prayers and women with strands of hair showing from under their veil.
Just remember this any of you wanting to visit Saudi Arabia. It’s their country and they can behave within their borders any way their law allows. If they want to stay rooted in the Dark Ages then who are we to criticize, right?
This medieval system of “justice” oversees countless stonings, beheadings, crucifixions, and often-fatal floggings in Islamic theocracies each year. But as long as it stays in Saudi Arabia it’s of no concern, right?
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” - Omar M. Ahmad, founder of the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR)
- Did you know that Europe has become home to an estimated 20 million Muslims in a mere three decades?
- Did you know that the most popular name for a baby boy in Brussels is Mohammed?
- Did you know that Muslims plan to build a mosque in London that will hold 40,000 people?
- Did you know that Dutch cities like Amsterdam and Rotterdam are close to having Muslim majorities?
- Did you know that according to a February 2006 ICM opinion poll 40% of British Muslims want Sharia law introduced into parts of the country?
- Did you know that a similar number said they also hope Britain will one day become an Islamic state?
- Did you know that, in the United States, Muslim groups have petitioned to establish enclaves in which they can uphold and enforce greater compliance to Islamic law?
- Did you know that in a great number of cases what sharia terms “justice” is actually illegal in every civilized nation around the world?
The late Saudi theologian, Sheikh Muhammad bin Ibrahim al-Jubair, stated:
Only one ambition is worthy of Islam, to save the world from the curse of democracy: to teach men that they cannot rule themselves on the basis of man-made laws. Mankind has strayed from the path of God, we must return to that path or face certain annihilation.
We simply need to erase all our cursed man-made laws of democracy and instead follow the law of Islam - sharia.
Yes, sharia is allowed in Saudi Arabia. Men and women that dance together over there can get lashes and prison sentences. Their traditions and laws are still stuck in the Dark Ages. But sharia wants to embed itself into both Europe and the US, and it is making headway in that direction. It wants to come into both your hometown and into your home. If you have a backyard party where men and women dance it wants you to have lashes and go to prison.
Sharia does not co-exist - it conquers.
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