Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Saudi woman beats up religious cop
In Saudi Arabia, a Saudi woman whose male friend collapsed on being questioned by a member of the notorious morality police (the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice) laid a beating on the religious cop. The cop went to hospital with bruises.
"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."
In England, too, Deputy Leader Clegg does intend to "get rid of the unnecessary laws" and "introduce a mechanism to block pointless new criminal offences"and to ask the public "which laws you think should go" as they "tear through the statute book".
IMO: I refuse to take a view on the issues, but for years I have said something like this will happen - in Saudi Arabia. I do not think that it would be popular if the cops were beaten up by women in London, England, but I imagine many women would like to. Indeed, one woman recently nearly murdered a UK M.P. (named Timms). At least one can hope that Clegg will not make minatory shooting of dogs legal, as doubtless one of his Liberal predecessors would have wished.
# posted by uv : 3:12 AM
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