Saudi Police Crackdown on Holding Hands

Saudi Arabia’s feared Islamic Police raid wedding

after Groom seen holding Bride’s hand

Western women's lib and Gay rights groups are silent when

confronted with the true bigots in the world. 

Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police raided a park in the Gulf Kingdom and stopped a wedding they considered as a violation of conservative local traditions.

Hundreds of visitors to the park south of the capital Riyadh surrounded the newly-wed Egyptian couple to take part in the party before members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice entered the park and stopped the event.

“A source in the Commission said the wedding was stopped because it violated local traditions as the bride was not covering her face and the groom was holding her hand and hugging her sometimes,” Ajel newspaper said.

(Emirates 24-7)

A Religious Police State
Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

277 "Satanists" arrested in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s religious police arrested 277 Satanists during a ritual party in a hotel in the conservative Gulf Kingdom, a newspaper reported.

Members of the feared Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice raided the hotel in Riyadh and rounded up the participants in the rituals, mostly Saudi men, Sharq Arabic language daily said.

It said the night raid was ordered by Riyadh’s deputy prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz but gave no other details.

(Emirates 24-7)

 

'Gay club' raided and shut in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police shut a health club after seizing five local gays in a raid triggered by a tip-off about the club’s “suspect ed activities,” a newspaper in the Gulf Kingdom reported.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most influential law enforcement authority in the world’s dominant oil exporter, raided the club in the capital Riyadh and arrested the five gays.

“During the raid, they seized five gays, who possessed condoms…some of the condoms contained semen…..the authorities also decided to shut the club permanently,” Kabar newspaper said.

(Emirates 24-7)