In the middle of all the political hoopla leading up to tomorrow's primaries, I thought I would this heartening story from the other side of the world - heartening because, in a country where women are not allowed to walk out of the house without some male relative's permission, one young woman stood up for herself and beat the crap out of the virtue police.
Seems she was one half of a couple who were minding their own business as they meandered through a park in Al-Mubarraz, when:
A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Saudi religious police known locally as the Hai’a, asked the couple to confirm their identities and relationship to one another, as it is a crime in Saudi Arabia for unmarried men and women to mix.
For unknown reasons, the young man collapsed upon being questioned by the cop. The Media Line
And then... (below the fold)
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