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NEWS ABOUT: religious police

religious police stories: 5 news summaries

Somali Women Whipped
for Wearing Bras

Underwear 'fraudulently advertises assets' to suitors

Oct 28, 09 2:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Muslim Shabaab religious enforcers in battered Somalia are finding time to whip Muslim women for wearing bras. They're being punished because the underwear accentuates breasts and in some cases gives a "fraudulent" impression to possible suitors, reports the Independent . "Al Shabaab now orders us to shake our breasts,... More »

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Somalia • Sudan • women • Muslim • Muslim women • lashing • religious police • conservative Islam • whips • bra

 Girl Group Rocks Saudi Taboos 

The Accolade still underground but gaining popularity as youth push boundaries

Nov 24, 08 12:02 PM CST
(Newser) - The Accolade sounds like a typical female rock band: Its members have teased hair and facial piercings, and their clothing shocks passers-by as they tell a New York Times reporter about their new song with lyrics about a failed relationship. But the Accolade’s home base is conservative Saudi Arabia,... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Islamic Sharia law • Muslim women • taboo • rock music • religious police

 Saudi Cops
 Target Flirty
 Dog Walkers

Riyadh officials confiscating pets in public

Aug 13, 08 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Officials in a Saudi province have banned the sale of cats and dogs after complaints that flirtatious men are “using cats and dogs to make passes at women and pester families,” the Christian Science Monitor reports. Although owning a pet isn’t illegal, the religious police say they’... More »

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pets • Saudi Arabia • Koran • veterinarian • Muhammad • religious police

57 Saudi Men Arrested
for Flirting

Prosecutors say they exhibited 'bad' behavior to woo girls at malls

Feb 23, 08 1:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested 57 young men accused of flirting with girls at shopping malls in Mecca, the BBC reports. Prosecutors say the men wore indecent clothing, played loud music, and danced to attract the girls’ attention. The arrests were prompted by Saudi’s Commission for the Promotion of... More »

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Islam • Saudi Arabia • Mecca • Wahhabism • Valentine's Day • religious police • gender segregation • flirting

Saudi Religious Cops Toss US Exec in Pokey

Her crime? Sitting with a male colleague at Starbucks

Feb 7, 08 8:25 AM CST
(Newser) - A 37-year-old American businesswoman says Saudi Arabia's religious police swooped her out of a Riyadh Starbucks and bundled her off to jail, where she was strip searched, humiliated, and bullied into signing confessions, reports the Times of London—all for sharing a table with a male colleague when the Internet... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Starbucks • women's rights • taboo • Mutaween • religious police • Islamic moral code

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