The Saudi Arabian Muslim Culture Police
We don't read much about this in the press, about the presence of culture police in Saudi Arabia, but we do know that they exist. Not only are there culture police in Saudi Arabia, but culture police in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
What exactly are these "culture police" you ask. Culture police are thugs employed at the Islamic government to enforce Muslim cultural mores. Like, head scarves...any women in a Muslim society had better not be without one. Like, unaccompanied women being seen with men, boy, that one is a big no-no. In fact that is what the brouhaha in Saudi Arabia is all about. One woman is taking the government's culture police to court. These thugs arrested her and her daughter beat up her driver when it appeared to them that she was visiting men who were not part of her family. It turned out that the woman was visiting her own female relatives and yet was subjected to brutal behavior in the name of enforcing Muslim cultural mores.
it will be interesting to see and hear what happens with this very telling case in Saudi Arabia and if it even gets into the press or is repressed by the political culture police.
What exactly are these "culture police" you ask. Culture police are thugs employed at the Islamic government to enforce Muslim cultural mores. Like, head scarves...any women in a Muslim society had better not be without one. Like, unaccompanied women being seen with men, boy, that one is a big no-no. In fact that is what the brouhaha in Saudi Arabia is all about. One woman is taking the government's culture police to court. These thugs arrested her and her daughter beat up her driver when it appeared to them that she was visiting men who were not part of her family. It turned out that the woman was visiting her own female relatives and yet was subjected to brutal behavior in the name of enforcing Muslim cultural mores.
it will be interesting to see and hear what happens with this very telling case in Saudi Arabia and if it even gets into the press or is repressed by the political culture police.
