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At 1:13 PM , Hamad Mohawis said...
i don't know why they had to bring both extreme ends of the spectrum. muttawa's who think picking your nose means your waving at a woman to have oral sex with you using her nostrils, and a guy who's 18 and wants to dine out with his girlfriend.
The religous police is nothing more than the Taliban with a GMC suburban. they cause more trouble than they do good... hell, they never did anything good!!
i used to think that the stories about most of the members of the religous police being ex-convicts were bogus... until a guy at work told me about his relative (nephew).. heroin addict and dealer... got busted... went to prison then rehab... then joined the religous police... and he's now patroling riyadh's street to "protect our religous beliefs"...
aziz, didn't the religous police once stop you for walking fast in an mall that was empty in the morning? and the violation was that "you were walking suspiciously fast"? ... if that doesn't prove that they're never up to any good and they only want to harrass people, i don't know what does!
oh, btw, i was once "arrested" by these creatures because i was eating with a bunch of friends and athan just started... they immediately pulled over and took us all in because "we were eating in a public place during prayer time"...
At 3:40 PM , Abdulaziz Alnaim said...
Looooooool, I love this hamad "The religous police is nothing more than the Taliban with a GMC suburban".....
Yeah, I was "arrested" because I was walking fast which according to them meant I must've been following someone, it wasn't in morning, but anyone who remembers how the 2nd floor of Al-Rashid Mall circa 1998, where i was stopped, knows that usually there was NO ONE IN SIGHT, which was my first question to them. I said: "If i'm following someone please tell me where they are, look around, who am I following", they looked around and I swear there was no on in sight. So they said "still, you must've been up to something or why would you walk so fast". Of course, anyone who knows me knows I naturally walk very fast conveying the imagine I'm busy and always up to something (getting to think about it, I should put it under my "Skills" on my resume hehehe)... so they asked me to go with them to their office and I told them I would not walk with them no matter what because they are suspecious (i used the word "shubhah"), they got offended of course. I told them they had my ID and I gave them they can accept my condition to meet them at their office or they can take my ID and do whatever they want with it. Anyway, I ended up staying meeting them at their office 15 minutes later where I spent about 2 hours arguing with their guy. He wanted me to sign a document admiting guilt and promising not to do whatever I was doing again. I told him I would never admit guilt when I knew I wasn't guilty of anything and I wouldn't change the way I walk to please them. He threatened to take me to their head office and keep me overnight (lock me in) and I told him that that's fine with me and I would go with him all they way to the Governer's (the Prince) office if I had to, but I will never ever admit to something I didn't do. So after the 2 hours ended he got sick of me and just wanted me to leave. I "compromised" and accepted his offer to sign my name next to my ID number on their log book (which just lists people they've arrested) and they let me leave. I'm so proud of myself, honestly, for standing to them and i've had other similar encounters with them over the years (and I was never guilty in any of them and they could never do anything to me). Not that I'm always innocent, I just got lucky I guess that they always "caught me" when I wasn't doing anything wrong at the time. Oh, another example, I once fought with one of their guys for being inside our cafe shortly after the call to prayer (it was being built at the time and was clearly under construction!). I usually pray at the mosque and the mosque was just behind the building (it takes approx. 2 minutes to crawl to it), we argued and argued for like 5 or 10 minutes and then 5 minutes before prayer started I interrupted him and told him that I had to leave to go pray (he looked stupid then) and I left hehehe. I honestly enjoy these kinds of encounters!
At 6:41 PM , Rayan said...
It's a damn shame what some of those Hay'ah men do to people over cafes & restaurants.
Just the other morning i was having breakfast with my mom over Haagen Daaz at 9 AM and this Mutawwa comes in and he's like "sakkir el-7ajiz", i'm like why, there's no one but us?, he's like "eeh, bs hatha makan 3am"!! I'm like "yes but why now mafeeh a7ad ya3ni?" he's like "ma3leesh ya a5i makan 3am",, so mom was like 5ala9 close the partition o 5ala9na.
I was damn pissed off, even though just to at least be fair enough, he was very polite in the way he kept asking, irritating yes but polite. Unlike some of the others.
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