Saudi woman beats up virtue cop
Jerusalem Post

It was a scene Saudi women’s rights activists have dreamt of for years.

When a Saudi religious policeman sauntered about an amusement park in
the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Al-Mubarraz looking for unmarried
couples illegally socializing, he probably wasn’t expecting much opposition.

But when he approached a young, 20-something couple meandering through
the park together, he received an unprecedented whooping.

A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of
Vice, the Saudi religious police known locally as the Hai’a, asked the
couple to confirm their identities and relationship to one another, as
it is a crime in Saudi Arabia for unmarried men and women to mix.

For unknown reasons, the young man collapsed upon being questioned by
the cop.

According to the Saudi daily Okaz, the woman then allegedly laid into
the religious policeman, punching him repeatedly, and leaving him to be
taken to the hospital with bruises across his body and face.

“To see resistance from a woman means a lot,” Wajiha Al-Huwaidar, a
Saudi women’s rights activist, told The Media Line news agency. “People
are fed up with these religious police, and now they have to pay the
price for the humiliation they put people through for years and years.
This is just the beginning and there will be more resistance.”

“The media and the Internet have given people a lot of power and the
freedom to express their anger,” she said. “The Hai’a are like a
militia, but now whenever they do something it’s all over the Internet.
This gives them a horrible reputation and gives people power to react.”

Neither the religious police nor the Eastern Province police has made a
statement on the incident, and both the names of the couple and the date
of the incident have not been made public, but on Monday the incident
was all over the Saudi media.

Should the woman be charged, she could face a lengthy prison term and
lashings for assaulting a representative of a government institution.

Saudi law does not permit women to be in public spaces without a male
guardian. Women are not allowed to drive, inherit, divorce or gain
custody of children, and cannot socialize with unrelated men.

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America *needs* that woman to stand outside abortion clinics and beat
the crap out of the protesters who try to block access. :)

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Bad experiences are the only ones that teach us anything.

On Tue, 18 May 2010 12:15:43 -0400, hk
wrote:

Saudi woman beats up virtue cop
Jerusalem Post

It was a scene Saudi women’s rights activists have dreamt of for years.

When a Saudi religious policeman sauntered about an amusement park in
the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Al-Mubarraz looking for unmarried
couples illegally socializing, he probably wasn’t expecting much opposition.

But when he approached a young, 20-something couple meandering through
the park together, he received an unprecedented whooping.

This woman should attend the next meeting of the Texas textbook
committee.

"hk" wrote in message
m...
Saudi woman beats up virtue cop
Jerusalem Post

It was a scene Saudi women’s rights activists have dreamt of for years.

When a Saudi religious policeman sauntered about an amusement park in the
eastern Saudi Arabian city of Al-Mubarraz looking for unmarried couples
illegally socializing, he probably wasn’t expecting much opposition.

But when he approached a young, 20-something couple meandering through the
park together, he received an unprecedented whooping.

A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of
Vice, the Saudi religious police known locally as the Hai’a, asked the
couple to confirm their identities and relationship to one another, as it
is a crime in Saudi Arabia for unmarried men and women to mix.

For unknown reasons, the young man collapsed upon being questioned by the
cop.

According to the Saudi daily Okaz, the woman then allegedly laid into the
religious policeman, punching him repeatedly, and leaving him to be taken
to the hospital with bruises across his body and face.

“To see resistance from a woman means a lot,” Wajiha Al-Huwaidar, a Saudi
women’s rights activist, told The Media Line news agency. “People are fed
up with these religious police, and now they have to pay the price for the
humiliation they put people through for years and years. This is just the
beginning and there will be more resistance.”

“The media and the Internet have given people a lot of power and the
freedom to express their anger,” she said. “The Hai’a are like a militia,
but now whenever they do something it’s all over the Internet. This gives
them a horrible reputation and gives people power to react.”

Neither the religious police nor the Eastern Province police has made a
statement on the incident, and both the names of the couple and the date
of the incident have not been made public, but on Monday the incident was
all over the Saudi media.

Should the woman be charged, she could face a lengthy prison term and
lashings for assaulting a representative of a government institution.

Saudi law does not permit women to be in public spaces without a male
guardian. Women are not allowed to drive, inherit, divorce or gain custody
of children, and cannot socialize with unrelated men.

All rights reserved © 1995 - 2009 The Jerusalem Post.

- -

America *needs* that woman to stand outside abortion clinics and beat the
crap out of the protesters who try to block access. :)

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Bad experiences are the only ones that teach us anything.


One tough chick!