All We Are Saying Is Give (The Religion Of) Peace A Chance
So an American woman in an Islamic getup walks into a Starbucks somewhere in Saudi Arabia...
And the waiter asks, "Would you like bruises and a strip search with that latte?"
OK, it wasn't a waiter is was a Saudi pig... er... policeman, and the woman had committed a "terrible sin." What was the sin, you ask? No, it wasn't that she paid five bucks for a cup of coffee - she sat with a man she was neither related nor married to. Christ, you know it ain't easy!
Apparently, in Saudi Arabia they don't have "smoking and "non-smoking" sections, they have "related" and "mingle at your own risk" sections.
Interestingly, there was no word on the treatment the man who led her astray received or whether the woman got to finish her latte, but she's back in America and refusing to give her name out of concern for her friends and associates still in the Magic Kingdom. Sharia, baby! It's not just for dinner anymore.
Meanwhile, half a Middle East away, a 22-year-old guy in Iran has been sentenced to death. His crime was having a fourth drink.
More accurately, he was given the death penalty because of three previous convictions for alcohol consumption. Now that's what I call a temperance movement!
And a few weeks ago, three other Iranians had their right hands and left feet "recycled" because they were convicted of theft. It wasn't exactly what the victims were hoping for in the way of restitution, but they felt at least they'd have some conversation pieces.
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Truer words have never been made up!
Scio, holy crap! I thought the headline indicated Archie was sounding an alarm. Just the opposite. How soon before it's the Imam of Canterbury?
Of course, said guy didn't do himself any favors by:
1. Being black
2. being a full fledged Rastafarian and dressing appropriately.
I thoroughly enjoy visiting other cultures, but I try to know before hand if I'm in danger from going to jail because a speck of weed got stuck to my shoe.
Yes, but isn't that the point... you can't really know, much less avoid problems if someone just wanted to get you. We saw a show just last night where a guy got convicted of manslaughter in Monaco of all places and served 11 years.
He was an attendant for a very rich guy, and he claimed he was attacked by an intruder and had a knife wound to the stomach. He then herded the guy and a housekeeper into a bathroom and told them to lock the door which they did.
Then things started to unravel as he used a lighter to set off the smoke alarm and somehow something ignited. As the police came, he ran out and told them the people were trapped, and the people even had a cell phone and were talking to police.
But they wouldn't let firefighters enter until they determined if there was an intruder who was sill there - so the two people died. The attendant was charged with arson - and manslaughter and was convicted in forty-five minutes.