The religious police are becoming more unpopular every day in Saudi Arabia. This is the second incident involving women and the men who prowl the cities checking up on their virtue. She was caught in "moral seclusion" with another man and this time, a gun was involved and the lady in question was married to someone else.
She shot at the officers to distract them while her companion got away. But now she's in big trouble because her husband has filed an official report asking for his wife to be punished and stripped of her Saudi nationality. She was born in Syria and recently got her Saudi citizenship after living for years in the kingdom. Her punishment could be a flogging, jail, or both.
These police are hated by women in Saudi Arabia, they patrol shopping malls to make sure women are fully veiled and keep a watchful eye to ensure that no woman is walking unaccompanied by a male member of her family. They have been embarrassing people for years and now the anger against them seems to be spilling over. King Abdullah has tried to weaken their authority and soften the nation's fundamentalist Wahhabi Islam, but obviously hasn't tried hard enough.
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