Saudi Sex Cops continue to abuse people

Arab News:

It has unfortunately become a regular headline in our newspapers. We learn of people beaten up by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice — for short, the commission. The details of the beatings and the reasons for them can be dealt with later but the outstanding fact that strikes us is that people were assaulted with a severity that lands them in hospitals and, in two reported cases, killed those who were assaulted.

The latest of these reports concerns a boy from Najran who was attacked by the commission. Allegedly — and I am quoting from the newspaper report, the boy “confronted the men over a violation supposedly committed by his brother.” In other words, he was not the target; he was simply defending his brother. According to the boy, four members of the commission “insulted him and banged his head against a car until he became unconscious.”

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This story is not the first and is probably not the last on people being mistreated by commission members. On Jan. 11, Arab News carried a story about a security guard in a shopping center who was beaten up by commission members and sustained injuries that necessitated hospitalization. The guard was not accused of any indecent behavior; on the contrary, he was doing the job that he had been hired to do. The report says that he had detained a man who was verbally abusing two girls and taken him to a commission center where he witnessed the members assaulting the person who had been called to come and take the man home. When the guard interfered in what he saw as mistreatment, he too was beaten.

But the most tragic case is of the man who was beaten to death in front of his father. To make matters worse, the court cleared the commission members from charges of murder. It issued a rather interesting judgment that said that the man had not died because of commission members kicking him in the head. No, the judgment said that “the head is not cause of death and the legs are not instruments.” Therefore, the logic — if we can call it that — was that the man did not die because of being kicked in the head.

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The Saudi King needs to disband these religious thugs. They are a disgrace to humanity and an embarrassment to Saudi Arabia. These are just a few of the latest atrocities committed by the Sex Cops. Check out the label below for earlier attacks on decency in the name of indecency.