Apr 23, 05
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Two words that should never be put together...
"religious police"
Funny story...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Star or not, Saudi Arabia's enforcers of virtue make no exceptions: handshakes and congratulatory kisses in mixed company do not belong in a public mall.
Religious authorities briefly detained Saudi singer Hisham Abdel Rahman, made famous in the Arab World by winning this year's Star Academy reality TV show for causing an indecent scene, a Riyadh police official said Saturday. Star Academy is based on a French show of the same name and as wildly popular in the Arab world as the like-minded U.S. show, American Idol.
Male and female fans had spotted Abdel Rahman, 24, strolling through Kingdom Tower Mall on Wednesday and rushed to him to shake his hand and bestow congratulatory kisses.
Members of the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the formal name for Saudi' Arabia's religious police, doing their regular mall patrol were upset by the scene, which they deemed "improper," the police official said on condition of anonymity.
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