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Saturday, November 21, 2009 12:30 PM

Religious Police

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Name: Religious Police
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
Research and Markets: Pet Food and Pet Care Products in Saudi Arabia
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c15c23/pet_food_and_pet_c) has announced the addition of the 'Pet Food and Pet Care Products in Saudi Arabia' report to their offering.The Pet Food and Pet Care in Saudi Arabia report offers ... [RBC Dain Rauscher - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/22/2009 - 1 Documents
Mark Steyn: San Francisco Has to Pay for its Sins
Author: quidnuncPosted: 10/ 22/ 09 3:20 pmIn this novel set in 2040, the U.S. has split into an Islamic Republic and a Christian Bible beltSeven and a half years ago, a girls school in Mecca caught fire. Many of the pupils were able to escape the burning ... [Free Dominion - 10/22/2009]
First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 1 Documents
Us Religious Freedom Report Hits Speech Curbs
U.S. State Department's International Religious Freedom Report 2009The U.S. State Department's annual report on world-wide religious freedom, released Monday, was critical of what it says are international efforts to limit free speech in the name of combating ... [Turkish Weekly - 10/27/2009]
First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 1 Documents
Saudi King blocks flogging of female journalist
On Saturday, Rozana al-Yami, 22, was sentenced to 60 lashes by a Jiddah court for working for an unlicensed network. The network, known as LBC, has generated controversy in Saudi Arabia because it recently aired a program that featured discussion about ... [Washington Post - 10/27/2009]
First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 1 Documents
In liberal Indonesia, Aceh is Taliban spot
BANDA ACEH: Under Islamic law, or sharia, the religious police have administered public canings for such things as gambling, prostitution and illicit affairs. But under a new Islamic criminal code that goes into effect this month, the sharia police will ... [Times of India - 10/28/2009]
First Reported 10/29/2009 - Updated 10/29/2009 - 1 Documents
Riyadh's first female only spa to open in 2010
SPA FIRST: The first female only spa will open in Riyadh next year.The first female-only hotel spa in the Saudi Arabian city of Riyadh has preliminary approval and is set to open in March next year, hotel chiefs have said.Al Faisaliah Hotel bosses say ... [ArabianBusiness.com - 10/29/2009]
First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 1 Documents
Impressions of a new Saudi Arabia
For the first time in three decades of teaching, I canceled a class. I did so in order to accept an invitation to attend a conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Institute for Public Administration, a Saudi government ... [Federal Computer Week - 11/04/2009]
First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 1 Documents
Muslim women wearing the trousers
The West Aceh Regent Ramli M.S, based in Meulaboh, has issued a regulation that women found wearing tight trousers such as jeans will have them cut by sharia police and forced to wear loose-fitting attire as of January 1st 2010. (The Jakarta Post 28.10.09). ... [Albawaba - 11/05/2009]
First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
It takes Saudi religious police to make Facebook a virtuous place
If you are like me, you were probably also bothered by the lack of virture on Facebook and other social networking sites. Well, fear not: the Saudi religious police are here to help us. Al Arabiya has more (h/t Chanan Weismann):A group of Saudi's launched ... [Foreign Policy Magazine - 11/10/2009]
First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/12/2009 - 1 Documents
Small War or Big Problem? Fighting on the Yemeni-Saudi Border
Government OffensiveThe current fighting dates from this past August, when the government in Sana started an offensive, code-named Operation Scorched Earth, against fighters of the Houthi clan who were blockading roads in the mountainous northwest of ... [Washington Institute for Near East Policy - 11/12/2009]
First Reported 11/11/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
Obama: Go to Copenhagen!
pressing issue of climate change, which will culminate in the Copenhagen summitnext month. So far, more than 40 heads of state have agreed to attend, to actas negotiators and more importantly to demonstrate a firm commitment to ambitioustargets. The growing ... [Foreign Policy Magazine - 11/11/2009]
First Reported 10/21/2009 - Updated 10/21/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Malaysia court sentences Muslim sect leader to 10 years in jail, caning over false teachings
A lawyer says a Malaysian Islamic court has sentenced a Muslim sect leader to 10 years in prison and six lashes from a rattan cane for spreading false teachings.Abdul Kahar Ahmad pleaded guilty in an Islamic Shariah court last month to charges of spreading ... [3 News - 10/21/2009]

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...Shethry had a particular problem with co-ed classes:   "Mixing is a great sin and a great evil," al-Shethri was quoted as saying. "When men mix with women, their hearts burn and they will be" diverted from their main goal (which is) ... education...
Don't tell King Abdullah how to run King Abdullah University [FP Passport - 10/06/2009]
...leader, who now lives in exile in France, has called for an end to religious persecution and the disbandment of Vietnam's religious police. "It is now clear that the police and the government are not satisfied with the forced closure and violent eviction of monks and nuns from Bat Nha monastery itself, but are intent on continued, aggressive persecution of this one group of people" they said in a statement
Vietnamese riot police target monk's followers [Guardian Unlimited - 10/02/2009]
Now that her mother has died, she plans to go to Thailand later this year and have sex-change and breast augmentation surgery. "If you want to become pretty quickly, then you can't be afraid" she says. 'Only then will I feel like a complete woman...
Twilight life of Malaysia's Muslim transsexuals [AFP via Yahoo! - 09/06/2009]
"The hands of the religious police, as well as the brother's hands, are stained with the blood of these innocent young women"
"The hands of the religious police, as well as the brother's hands, are stained with the blood of ... [Jihad Watch - 07/11/2009]

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30 years on, bloody Mecca mosque siege reverber... [Lebanon Daily Star - 8 hours ago]
Timeline: Saudi Arabia [BBC - 19 hours ago]
Web Exclusive: Cuban dissidents make noise—oops... [Canadian Dimension - 11/19/2009]
Research and Markets: Pet Food and Pet Care Pro... [RBC Dain Rauscher - 11/19/2009]
30 years on Mecca reverberates [News24.com - 11/19/2009]
Small War or Big Problem? Fighting on the Yemen... [Washington Institute for Near East Policy - 11/12/2009]
Obama: Go to Copenhagen! [Foreign Policy Magazine - 11/11/2009]
It takes Saudi religious police to make Faceboo... [Foreign Policy Magazine - 11/10/2009]
Muslim women wearing the trousers [Albawaba - 11/05/2009]
Culture Wars in Afghanistan [Middle East Online - 11/05/2009]
Islamic Party Gains Clout in Malaysia [Malaysia Today - 11/05/2009]
Impressions of a new Saudi Arabia [Federal Computer Week - 11/04/2009]
China's newest export: sex crimes [DNA India - 10/31/2009]
Saudi tourism has potential but faces obstacles [FinanzNachrichten.de - 10/30/2009]
Saudi tourism has potential but faces obstacles [Interactive Investor International - 10/30/2009]
Sexing up Education in Saudi Arabia [Middle East Online - 10/30/2009]
Saudi Riots Reveal Society's Fissures [The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - 10/29/2009]
Riyadh's first female only spa to open in 2010 [ArabianBusiness.com - 10/29/2009]
In liberal Indonesia, Aceh is Taliban spot [Times of India - 10/28/2009]
Extremism Spreads Across Indonesian Penal Code [New York Times - 10/28/2009]
Ripple of religion spreads in Indonesian penal ... [Malaysian Insider - 10/28/2009]
Us Religious Freedom Report Hits Speech Curbs [Turkish Weekly - 10/27/2009]
Saudi King blocks flogging of female journalist [Washington Post - 10/27/2009]
Mark Steyn: San Francisco Has to Pay for its Sins [Free Dominion - 10/22/2009]
San Francisco has to pay for its sins [Macleans Online - 10/22/2009]
Malaysia court sentences Muslim sect leader to ... [3 News - 10/21/2009]
Malaysia Muslim sect leader gets 10-year sentence [Jakarta Post - 10/21/2009]
Boys and girls together in Saudi primary schools [AsiaNews.IT - 10/21/2009]
Islamic women embarrassed by religious police [Big News Network - 10/20/2009]
Hamas patrols beaches in Gaza to enforce conser... [Guardian Unlimited - 10/18/2009]
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Culture Wars in Afghanistan [IntelliBriefs - 11/08/2009]
The United States no longer believes that its technological supremacy can dominate Afghanistan. And that’s right. Now it stresses cultural clichés about tribal traditions ...
Mark Levine: A Sanctuary Attacked, and With it,... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/27/2009]
Of all the violence that has plagued Pakistan in the last few years perhaps none is more symptomatic of the larger war over the country's future than the ...
Hamas launches religious crackdown in Gaza [AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the t ... - 10/19/2009]
Bringing out the inner knuckle-dragger whether they like it or not. The Guardian:For the first time since Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections nearly four ...
Sabria Jawhar: Saudi Religious Police Clamp Dow... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/15/2009]
Perhaps one of the most misunderstood aspects of Saudi society in the non-Arab world is the myth that all Saudi women are banned from driving cars. Read ...
Faisal J. Abbas: A Journalism Lesson from King ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/12/2009]
As they often do every weekend, a group of Saudi journalists gathered up at 'The Millennium' -- a local hangout which was once popular for being among ...
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