I'm just trying to figure how how this all works.
So you are saying all of these pictures were taken IN Saudi Arabia ?
they obviously did not run into these guys
Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Saudi Arabia)
While on patrol, the duties of the mutaween include, but are not restricted to:
ensuring that drugs including alcohol are not being traded.[16]
checking that women wear the abaya, a traditional cloak.[citation needed]
making sure that men and women who are spotted together in public are related.[16]
formerly, enforcing the ban on camera phones. This ban was enacted out of a fear that men would use them to secretly photograph women and publish them on the Internet without the consent of the subjects. The ban was enacted in April 2004 but was overturned in December that same year.[17]
preventing the population from engaging in "frivolous"[18] Western customs such as Valentine's Day.[19]
The punishment for such offenses is severe, often involving beatings and humiliation, and foreigners are not excluded from arrest.[20] The mutaween encourage people to inform on others they know who are suspected of acting unvirtuously, and to punish such activities.
In 2010, a 27-year-old Saudi man was sentenced to five years in prison, 500 lashes of the whip, and a SR50,000 fine after appearing in an amateur gay video online allegedly taken inside a Jeddah prison. According to an unnamed government source, “The District Court sentenced the accused in a homosexuality case that was referred to it by the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai’a) in Jeddah before he was tried for impersonating a security man and behaving shamefully and with conduct violating the Islamic teachings.” The case started when the Hai’a’s staff arrested the man under charges of practicing homosexuality. He was referred to the Bureau for Investigation and Prosecution, which referred him to the District Court.[21]
Among the Western practices suppressed by the Mutaween is the celebration of Valentine's Day. Condemning the festivities as a "pagan feast", Mutaween inspect hotels, restaurants, coffeehouses, and gift shops on 14 February to prevent Muslim couples from giving each other Valentines or other presents. The sale of red roses, red stuffed animals, red greeting cards and other red gift items is banned, according to store owners. These items are confiscated, and those selling them subject to prosecution.[22][23]
The children's game Pokémon was banned in 2001.[24] The sale of the fashion doll Barbie was banned as a consumer product for posing a moral threat to Islam,[25] stating: "Jewish Barbie dolls, with their revealing clothes and shameful postures, accessories and tools are a symbol of decadence to the perverted West. Let us beware of her dangers and be careful."[26] Fulla dolls were designed and approved as more acceptable.
