| Committee For The Propagation Of Virtue And The Prevention Of Vice |
Article Index for Committee For |
Shopping Propagation |
Website Links For Committee |
Information AboutCommittee For The Propagation Of Virtue And The Prevention Of Vice |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT COMMITTEE FOR THE PROPAGATION OF VIRTUE AND THE PREVENTION OF VICE | |
| government organizations of saudi arabia | |
| islam in saudi arabia | |
| law enforcement in saudi arabia | |
| saudi society | |
|
The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) is the English name of the ''' Saudi Arabian ''' government bureaucracy ('''هيئه الأمر بالمعروف و النهي عن المنكر''' in Arabic ) employing "religious police" to enforce ''' Sharia Law ''' within that ''' Islamic ''' nation. '''مطوعين''' is rendered phonetically in English as ''' Mutaween '''; see ''mutaween'' for a list of variant spellings and an extended description of Islamic religious police. The group is widely feared in Saudi Arabia. Its members patrol the streets enforcing Dress Code s, enforcing strict separation of men and women, and forcing Muslims to pray on time. Those who refuse to obey their orders are often beaten and sometimes put in jail. Other Islamic nations subject to Sharia feature similar religious policing entities (e.g., Taliban Afghanistan 's "Ministry of the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice"). In March of 2002 , they caused the deaths of several girls in Saudi Arabia by preventing them from leaving a burning school building. Witnesses reported seeing religious police beating young girls trying to flee the burning building, because they weren't wearing the Abaya . This incident resulted in a very rare public criticism of the group in official Saudi newspapers. EXTERNAL LINKS News items
General
|
|
|