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nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

Just couldn't resist posting this tidbit... Laughing

Saudi Arabia: Religious Police Expel UAE Men from Festival for Being 'Too Handsome'
By Drishya Nair, ibtimes | 16 April 2013
(Source: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/457734/20130416/saudi-arabia-festival-men-expelled-handsome.htm )

RIYADH--An annual culture festival in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh had to be stopped when a group of delegates from the United Arab Emirates were expelled for being too good-looking.

According to an official at the Janadriyah festival, quoted by Emirates 24/7, "three Emiratis were taken out on the grounds [that] they are too handsome and that the [festival] commission members feared female visitors could fall for them. "The festival's management took urgent measures to deport the three to Abu Dhabi."

The UAE's stand at Janadriyah has also been forced to clarify why a religious policeman stormed the stand before being forced out by members of the Saudi national guard.

A statement from the UAE delegation said the religious officer, a member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, was attracted by the presence of an Emirati female artist at the stand. Though the female artist was not identified, it is said that her presence was not previously arranged and that she had come to the UAE pavilion by "coincidence."

"Her visit to the UAE stand was a coincidence as it was not included in the programme which we had already provided to the festival's management," Saeed Al Kaabi, head of the UAE delegation to the festival, said in a statement according to the report.

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crewmeal1 · Joined: 08 Jul 2010 Posts: 75

I thought beauty was in the eye of the beholder? Are the religious police that ugly?

cmp45 · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 1475 Location: KSA

The religous police in KSA already have a notoriously bad reputation for their absurd rules and regulations; this story only serves to make them appear even more irrational.

Geronimo · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 498

I really have to empathise with those 3 young Emirati lads. Cool

As Tim Stanley observes,
"It's really not easy being a handsome devil." ...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100212825/its-really-not-easy-being-a-handsome-devil/

Geronimo

Badar Bin Bada Boom · Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 7:48 pm Post subject:

I was deported from the United States for being too ugly. And I'm a citizen! Hey, I know I'm not sexy. One time I told my wife I had a sore little pinky. She said "That's okay, I got a headache anyway." Even when I was a kid I was ugly. Are you kidding? When I was born, the doctor slapped my mother. My mother had morning sickness.....AFTER I was born. I was such an ugly kid that when I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. Fat, too, are you kidding? I was afraid to go to the beach because Green Peace kept trying to save me. Friends would take me to McDonald's and then stand outside to watch the numbers change.

Heaton · Joined: 02 Jan 2012 Posts: 35

This story is bogus. Always check your facts...

http://www.islawmix.org/the-man-too-handsome-for-saudi-arabia-who-wasnt/#.UYT_JbXU-So

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

johnslat · Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 1:24 pm Post subject:

Ah, good - I'm glad to learn that Saudi is as tolerant as ever Very Happy

"A member of the Saudi feared religious police, known as Mutawa, stormed the UAE pavilion at National Festival for Heritage and Culture, also known as Al Janadriyah, but was forced out by the Gulf Kingdom�s national guards.

The incident took place when the Mutawa member objected to the presence of the Emirati singer Aryam in her country�s pavilion.

A brief U-Tube film showed several guards surround the member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice before they escorted him out of the pavilion at the annual festival in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
And that's it.

There was, indeed, an incident involving Al Gala (and apparently him alone): according to the head of the mutawaeen, Sheikh Abdullatif Al-Sheikh (Arabic source), Al Gala had made his way into the family section of the event and was dancing inappropriately. Several complaints were made against him and he was taken aside by members of the national guard, questioned and that was it. He was not asked to leave the event, let alone the country. It turns out his uncomfortable dancing and not his uncomfortably good looks were the reason for some cause for concern and discomfort at the festival."

Weird, how that poor land always gets such a bad press. Must be a plot. Smile

Regards,
John

Geronimo · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 498

I think that this footage shows the incident at the Janadriyah 2013...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NamXezbq-ig

So, the story about the 3 Handsome Men wasn't true after all?!

Geronimo

artemisia · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 875 Location: the world

Geronimo · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 498

Maybe Aryam was really to blame for showing her face there.
On the other hand, the Emirati males did show off
their guns in a very impressive manner...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8h4Kjn4RG0

Geronimo

Geronimo · Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 498

And now Omar has been given a brand new Mercedes by a secret female admirer!
OMG! Rolling Eyes

And also, the muttaw'a intervention has helped him to launch his movie career!
Awesome - just like Canada! Shocked

http://en-maktoob.entertainment.yahoo.com/blogs/celebnews/secret-admirer-gifts--beautiful-emirati--a-mercedes-122415810.html

Note to self:- Get a trilby and some mascara... Smile

Geronimo

johnslat · Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 9:20 pm Post subject:

There's NO such thing as bad publicity Very Happy

. Jack the Ripper would probably get his own talk show today.

Regards,
John

artemisia · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 875 Location: the world