(Saudi) Eatery Owner Faces Flogging for Hiring Women

[DoYouEverWonder]

QATIF, 8 April 2006 — Restaurant owner Nabeel Al-Ramadan said he was surprised by a phone call from a local court judge asking him to meet him immediately.

When Al-Ramadan asked if it was all right to bring his lawyer, the judge told the businessman that he wanted to see him alone.

When Al-Ramadan arrived in the court, the judge informed him that he had been sentenced in absentia to 90 lashes to be administered in clusters of 30 apiece. The charge against him was violating dignity and decorum.

After further inquiries, Al-Ramadan found out that his crime was employing two young women at his restaurant “Ranoosh” to take orders by phone. That was a year and a half ago when locals reported this supposed infraction to authorities.

Al-Ramadan had reduced the girls’ schedule to four hours a day due to pressure from local authorities.

He was questioned and the girls were laid off even though the girls worked from beneath their veils, Al-Ramadan pointed out at the time.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=80420&d=8&m=4&y=2006


These are the kind of people the Bush's call friends.

[DIKB]

1. These are the allies

and Iraq, where women had more rights than the other ME nations, was the "bad" regime?

I find it sickening to see how we're making the entire region regress, and we're causing more problems than we're solving.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Just caught a bit of Rummie on FAUX talking about Iraq

and he felt that everyone should be happy that they got to vote and then they got to vote again. He is completely insane.

[Bush_MUST_Go]

4. Who cares about the ability to vote if you are DEAD?

[Triana]

3. Do you think...

...that if the bu$hit regime could get away with this type of crap in the US, they would? They ARE woman-hating mysogenists, after all. I've always felt the only thing stopping them is the potential backlash. If left to their own devices and without repercussion....

[LostinVA]

5. Of course they would... they just want to be in power,

And don't care whose backs they do it on.