Saudi Cops Get “Infidel Sensitivity Training”
This must be akin to “Demon Sensitivity” training for Christians or “”Increasing Producivity Training” for DMV employees. But more than likely covers teaching how to say “This is going to hurt me more than it does you” to those being publicly flogged.
Riyadh - The agents of the “commission for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice”, the official name of the muttuwa, the Saudi religious police, must attend courses on how to behave toward diplomats and non-Muslim foreigners.
The Dubai newspaper Gulf News reports that the courses will be organised by the Institute of Diplomatic Studies in Riyadh. The head of the institute’s development programmes department, Nasser Al Marzouqi Al Buqmi, says the courses will begin on April 20, and will be taught by “specialised experts from the institute and others from outside”.
The initiative, created under the auspices of the foreign ministry, seems to be part of a government policy to moderate the actions of the muttawa, which have always been accused by human rights groups and recently also criticised by the government-controlled Saudi press for the actions of their agents. There was also widespread coverage of the news that at the end of October last year, for the first time ever two agents of the religious police were put on trial, accused of the beating death of a man in his home, which they had stormed on the suspicion that there was alcohol inside.
A step toward the containment of the vast role of the muttawa has also been seen in the government decision, announced about ten days ago, to institute a “community police” force. The agents of this police force would have to work together with the population, not only to resolve any disputes, but also to create social service mechanisms.
(AsiaNews)
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Exactly what is sensitivity training for 7th century sadists anyways? Is this a joke?
January 25th, 2008 at 2:00 pmDan, my thoughts exactly. first step to their training should be to step out of the damn 7th century
January 25th, 2008 at 2:30 pmWhat is this? “On the suspicion that there was alcohol inside.” Why do Islamic morality police ALWAYS act on suspicions?! Where the Hell does proof ever play into anything? It’s at least being trigger-happy.
January 25th, 2008 at 4:59 pmMy skin crawls when I see them here in Philadelphia. I can’t imagine my ever going to where they come from.
January 26th, 2008 at 12:27 am