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in a sign of regional concern over terrorism, saudi arabia is pushing ahead with plans to build a fence along its entire 560-mile (900-kilometer) border with iraq to prevent terrorists from entering the kingdom from the chaotic north.
the barrier, which likely will take five to six years to complete, is part of a $12 billion package of measures, including electronic sensors, bases and physical barriers, to protect the oil-rich kingdom from external threats, said nawaf obaid, head of the saudi national security assessment project, an independent research institute that provides security advice to the saudi government.
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article submitted by ug7344. prosecutors in saudi arabia have begun investigating 57 young men who were arrested on thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centers in mecca. the men are accused of wearing indecent clothes, playing loud music and dancing in order to attract the attention of girls, the saudi gazette reported. they were arrested following a request of the commission for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. the mutaween enforce saudi arabia's conservative brand of islam, wahhabism. earlier in the month, the authorities enforced a ban on the sale of red roses and other symbols used in many countries to mark valentine's day. the ban is partly because of the connection with a "pagan christian holiday", and also because the festival itself is seen as encouraging relations between the sexes outside marriage, punishable by law in the kingdom. the prosecution and investigation commission said it had received reports of such "bad" behavior by 57 young men at a number of shopping centers in the holy city of mecca, the saudi gazette said. the guardians of some of the men defended their actions, however, saying they would regularly get together at the weekend to have fun without ever violating laws governing the segregation of the sexes, it added. source
an afghan and a bangladeshi, who were respectively convicted in saudi arabia of drug trafficking and murder, were beheaded by the sword today, the interior ministry said.
the afghani national, obeid allah bin mohammad alem, was caught smuggling an unspecified amount of heroin into the kingdom, the ministry said in a statement carried by the state spa news agency.
a group of islamic clergy in saudi arabia has condemned the letter "x” because of its similarity to a hated banned symbol – the cross. the commission for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, which has the ultimate say in all legal, civil and governance matters in the kingdom, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, against the "x.” it came in response to a ministry of trade query about whether a saudi businessman could be granted trademark protection for a new service with the english name "explorer.” the request from the businessman, amru mohammad faisal, was turned down. "experts who examined the english word ‘explorer’ were struck by how suspicious that ‘x’ appeared,” youssef ibrahim writes in the new york sun. "in a kingdom where friday preachers routinely refer to christians as pigs and infidel crusaders, even a twisted cross ranks as an abomination.” in response to the turndown, faisal wrote an article that appeared on several arabian web sites, sarcastically suggesting that the authorities might consider banning the "plus” sign in mathematics because of its similarity to the cross. among the commission’s earlier edicts is the 1974 fatwa declaring that the earth is flat. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/15/101803.shtml?s=ic
saudi arabia's religious police, normally tasked with chiding women to cover themselves and ensuring men attend mosque prayers, are turning to a new target: cats and dogs.
the police have issued a decree banning the sale of the pets, seen as a sign of western influence.
the prohibition on dogs may be less of a surprise, since conservative muslims despise dogs as unclean. but the cat ban befuddled many, since islamic tradition holds that the prophet muhammad loved cats — and even let a cat drink from his ablutions water before washing himself for prayers.
what do you do when you have an ass load of money and gas and some free time?
one of a kind honda accord
are these guys brave or just really stupid?
a couple of guys get bored and decide to drive against oncoming traffic.
article submitted by geoblaze. religious police in saudi arabia are banning the sale of valentine's day gifts including red roses, a local newspaper has reported. the saudi gazette quoted shop workers as saying that officials had warned them to remove all red items including flowers and wrapping paper. black market prices for roses were already rising, the paper said. saudi authorities consider valentine's day, along with a host of other annual celebrations, as un-islamic. in addition to the prohibition on celebrating non-islamic festivals, the authorities consider valentine's day as encouraging relations between men and women outside wedlock - punishable by law in the conservative kingdom. the saudi gazette reported that some people placed orders with florists days or weeks before valentine's day in anticipation of the ban, which is a regular occurrence. "sometimes we deliver the bouquets in the middle of the night or early morning, to avoid suspicion," one florist said. others were planning to travel to the more religiously liberal neighbouring countries, bahrain or the united arab emirates, to celebrate. saudi arabian authorities impose a strict islamic code that prevents men and women from mixing. source
riyadh, saudi arabia - a governor in northern saudi arabia has ordered authorities to punish men who flirt with women in public places by cutting their hair, local media said tuesday. prince fahd bin badr, governor of the northern al-jof region, ordered police to carry out the punishment after seeing a group of men with long hair pestering female students as they left school in the northern al-qurayat province, al-hayat newspaper said. it said the prince told a gathering at his palace in the northern town of skaka on sunday he has instructed police to apply the punishment to all youths guilty of flirting, including "the sons of senior military and civil officials." "the decision doesn't include men who spend their free time in public places without hurting anyone," the paper quoted the prince as saying. saudi arabia has long imposed a strict islamic lifestyle in which men and women are segregated in public. that lifestyle is enforced by the commission for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice, a government body that runs the country's powerful religious police. its members patrol public places to make sure women are covered and not wearing make up, the sexes don't mingle, shops close five times a day for muslim prayers and men go to the mosque and worship. many clergymen in this conservative gulf country say men should not have long hair because islam prohibits the sexes from emulating each other. sheik mubarak al-rushoud, head of the commission in al-jof, told al-hayat the new punishment resulted from "the repeated pestering of women in souks and outside girls' schools." he said fahd has ordered that the punishment against the men "who emulate women" should be carried out at the scene of the infraction, according to the paper. "the decision, however, doesn't include all men with long hair," al-rushoud was quoted by al-hayat as saying. source
an eight-year-old girl from saudi arabia has been granted a divorce from her 50-year-old husband. the case has prompted the kingdom to re-evaluate its conservative attitudes to marriage. the girl's marriage was arranged by her father and backed twice by a judge on the condition that it was not consummated until she reached puberty her mother, who is separated from the father, objected to the arrangement and twice sought a divorce on her daughter's behalf. it was refused both times by the judge, sheikh habib al-habib, after the girl's husband refused to agree. the judge did say that when the girl reached puberty she could herself seek a divorce. the case was widely publicised and prompted heated debate in the country, which is currently giving more rights to women than have previously been granted. it was also condemned by human rights groups abroad. king abdullah, seen as a reformist, appointed the first ever woman deputy minister earlier this year. one of his advisers, mohsen al-obaikan, an islamic scholar, went public to demand that a legal age for marriage be set at 18. the justice ministry said it was considering reforming the law, which until now has given no minimum. the justice minister said he wanted to end the "arbitrary" control of marriages by girl's fathers. however, the country's highest religious authority, the grand mufti sheikh abdul aziz al-shaikh, said that marrying girls even under the age of 15 was not against sharia - islamic law which forms the basis of the saudi legal system. the saudi gazette reported that the marriage of the eight-year-old, who has never been named, was annulled in a private out-of-court settlement between the two families in the city of onaiza. most such marriages are arranged by families in return for money. in this case, the father was said to need to pay off a personal debt to the husband, a friend. the girl herself has been living with her mother, and was never told that she was married, or of the international controversy her case had provoked. earlier, anne veneman, director of unicef, said: "unicef joins many in voicing concern that child marriage contravenes accepted international standards of human rights." source
it could be the ultimate in political control — but it won't be patented in germany. german media outlets reported last week that a saudi inventor's application to patent a "killer chip," as the swiss tabloids put it, had been denied. the basic model would consist of a tiny gps transceiver placed in a capsule and inserted under a person's skin, so that authorities could track him easily. model b would have an extra function — a dose of cyanide to remotely kill the wearer without muss or fuss if authorities deemed he'd become a public threat. the inventor said the chip could be used to track terrorists, criminals, fugitives, illegal immigrants, political dissidents, domestic servants and foreigners overstaying their visas. "the invention will probably be found to violate paragraph two of the german patent law — which does not allow inventions that transgress public order or good morals," german patent and trademark office spokeswoman stephanie krüger told the english-language german-news web site the local. source, source
no one's more surprised than him that he's not eating a dish of kabsa.
some are really brutal, yet funny.
