SAUDI WOMAN WHAPS VIRTUE COP

Virtue police, can you imagine. Well, one of these holy cops got the surprise of his life when a Saudi women turned out to be sick and tired of it all and beat the crap out of him. While her action certainly was a righteous one which I presume all who read this agree there is a problem. She'll probably go to jail an...d be lashed.

Just another nice day for women in another of the countries we count as an ally. Although, t'is true that numerous countries we count as enemies are just the same.

Be outraged today!

The following is from Mail Online.

Saudi woman beats up religious police officer who stopped her for walking with a man

An unidentified Saudi woman is being hailed a hero after beating up a virtue cop who stopped her for walking with a man

When a Saudi religious policeman questioned a young couple walking together in an amusement park he got a painful surprise - when the woman suddenly attacked him.

The officer, from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, asked the pair to confirm their identities and relationship to one another.

Unmarried men and women are barred from mixing under Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic rules.

The young man immediately collapsed for reasons that have not been made clear, the Jerusalem Post reported.
But before the policeman could do anything else, the woman - believed to be in her mid-twenties - laid into him.

Pictured Here: A Saudi woman makes sure she is properly

covered up while in a shopping mall (file photo)

He was punched repeatedly about the head and upper torso during the attack in the eastern city of Hofuf Mubarraz.

The assault was so severe and sustained, the officer was eventually taken to hospital suffering from severe bruising.


Neither religious nor local police have commented on the incident, which was widely played out in the Saudi media. 


If the woman is charged with assaulting the officer, she could face a lengthy prison term, or a lashing, or both.
But public opinion appears to have been firmly behind her.

'People are fed up with these religious police, and now they have to pay the price for the humiliation they put people through for years and years,' Saudi human rights activist Wajiha Al Huwaidar told the Media Line news agency.

'To see resistance from a woman means a lot... This is just the beginning and there will be more.'

The incident took place in the city of Mubarraz in Saudi Arabia

Saudi's archaic laws mean that, in addition to being barred from socialising with men in public, Saudi woman are also banned from driving.

They cannot divorce, inherit, or gain custody of their children, and they must be chaperoned in public by a male relative at all times.

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice - known locally as the Hai'a - are tasked with enforcing these laws. 


But resistance to the draconian measures - fuelled and empowered by the internet - has been growing in recent months. 


'There is some sort of change taking place,' Nadya Khalife, the Middle East women’s rights researcher for Human Rights Watch, told The Media Line.

'But it’s not quite clear what’s happening and it’s not something that’s going to happen overnight.'