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Our "Friends", The Saudis
By Ed Driscoll · May 22, 2005 12:04 PM · War And Anti-War

The Washington Times notes that Saudi Arabian authorities "reportedly arrested 92 people for being homosexuals during a raid on a gay party in eastern Riyadh":

Riyadh, May. 22 (UPI) — Saudi Arabian authorities Sunday reportedly arrested 92 people for being homosexuals during a raid on a gay party in eastern Riyadh.

The Al-Wifaq news website, with close links to the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry, said the suspects were found inside a club in a state of drunkenness or high on drugs and dancing wildly, with many of them dressed in women's clothes and wearing wigs and make-up.

The newspaper said the arrested gay men were from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Syria and Lebanon.

Homosexuality, alcohol and drugs are all illegal in the Arab kingdom, which says it strictly applies Islamic laws.

As James Lileks once wrote in 2002:
I was passing the TV and saw Jerry Brown debating O’Reilly. Brown’s default facial posture always seems to be android-calm, as if his internal systems are in Sleep mode, waiting for the cursor to move. O’Reilly was quoting a “60 Minutes” story about PLO - Iraq links; Brown responded that since the Saudis fund radical mosques, shouldn’t we invade them?

Thank you! I thought; there’s my column.

“The proper response to this is a big wide grin: capital idea, old chap; why not, indeed? Let’s go! Glad you’re on board. We can liberate those American-born women our craven State department refuses to help; we can take the oil fields, set the pumps on “gush” and flood the world with sweet, cheap crude. We can defund the radical mosques, disband the religious police, and build swingsets in the parks they use for public hand-choppings. As an added bonus, the West will occupy the most holy sites of Islam, so we can photograph, fingerprint, and possibly detain anyone who comes for a pilgrimage. Invade Saudi Arabia? Dude! You are so hard core!”

Heh, to coin a phrase.


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