Saudi Religious Police Blamed In 'Honor' Killing Of Sisters

Obama bowed to their king. The UN bows to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The media bows to Islamic censorship. And the West bows to Islamic supremacism ............ and it's the women and children, nothing more than chattel, who suffer the brunt of it.

Saudi Religious Police Blamed In 'Honor' Killing Of Sisters - Dow Jones Newswires

RIYADH (AFP)--A Saudi women's group on Friday blamed the country's religious police in the "honor" killing of two sisters shot dead by their own brother after they were arrested for mixing with unrelated men.

The Society for Defending Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia said the religious police put the sisters' lives in danger when they arrested them and placed them in a Riyadh women's shelter.

The two women, identified as Reem, 21, and Nouf, 19, were murdered after they left the shelter July 5.

The brother shot them in the presence of their father who, according to newspaper reports, quickly forgave the son because he was defending the family's honor.

But the society blamed the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or the religious police, for sparking the brother's anger over his family's honor by arresting the girls in the first place.

"The hands of the religious police, as well as the brother's hands, are stained with the blood of these innocent young women," the group said in a statement. "These women have not committed any crime to be killed in a such brutal way."

Under Saudi Arabia's Islamic sharia legal code, unrelated men and women are not allowed to be together, and the religious police actively enforce the rules by patrolling areas frequented by young people.

"Arresting women for mingling with (unrelated males) should be stopped because it puts many Saudi women in danger and sometimes (costs) them their lives," the statement said.

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The Saudi people must rally behind Reem and Nouf, and denounce the actions of all those involved in this terrible tragedy. The Saudis can't treat women like this anymore. Enough is enough.
Here's an interesting article about the murder: https://www.mindreign.com/en/mindshare/World-Politics-and-Current-Events/Honor-Killing-in-Saudi-Arabia/sl34045952bp318cpp5pn1.html