[Rhodes22-list] Sex and Oil

[Brad Haslett]

Let'em keep the oil, I'll take flirting! I was teaching at the old Braniff
training center several years ago and talking to a 747 crew (Americans) that
flew for a Saudi sheik and trained using the old Braniff 747 sim.  They said
the 'boys' would strip off their garb once on board and party with the
soon-to-be-replaced harem enroute to LAX, spend a day or less while their
agents rounded-up a new batch of girls for the next tour, and off they go
back to Saudi.  It's good to be rich!  For the average Joe Smcukitelli in
Saudi, you get this-

Brad

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 [image: BBC NEWS]
 Saudi men arrested for 'flirting'
* Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have begun investigating 57 young men who were
arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca. *

The men are accused of wearing indecent clothes, playing loud music and
dancing in order to attract the attention of girls, the Saudi Gazette
reported.

They were arrested following a request of the Commission for the Promotion
of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

The mutaween enforce Saudi Arabia's conservative brand of Islam, Wahhabism.

Earlier in the month, the authorities enforced a ban on the sale of red
roses and other symbols used in many countries to mark Valentine's Day.

The ban is partly because of the connection with a "pagan Christian
holiday", and also because the festival itself is seen as encouraging
relations between the sexes outside marriage, punishable by law in the
kingdom.

The Prosecution and Investigation Commission said it had received reports of
such "bad" behaviour by 57 young men at a number of shopping centres in the
holy city of Mecca, the Saudi Gazette said.

The guardians of some of the men defended their actions, however, saying
they would regularly get together at the weekend to have fun without ever
violating laws governing the segregation of the sexes, it added.
 Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/7260314.stm

Published: 2008/02/23 10:21:01 GMT

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