Our Ally

Posted on March 1, 2004 by Gene

Instead of influencing them to become more like us, it seems that the opposite is happening.
This news story from the BBC really bugs me.

Saudi investigators are grilling some 50 people for allegedly attending a gay wedding in the city of Medina, a newspaper reported on Monday.

Police raided a rest house where the ceremony was under way after advice from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or religious police, Arab News reported.

Investigators say that invitations to last Wednesday’s ceremony indicated it was a gay function and point to the suspicious behaviour of guests.

The “Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice”? Is it just me, or are we now living in that horrible world envisioned by sci-fi writers a half century ago?