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433: REVISED! THE FIRE THAT WON’T DIE OUT – 15 TEENAGE GIRLS DIED 40+ SERIOUSLY BURNT IN BLAZING INFERNO AT SCHOOL – In the Moslem Holy City of Mecca

15 November, 2008

THE FIRE THAT WON’T DIE OUT – 15 TEENAGE GIRLS DIED 40 SERIOUSLY BURNT IN BLAZING INFERNO AT SCHOOL – In the Moslem Holy City of Mecca

Religious Zealots beat them with batons and drove them back into the blazing inferno

Daniel: That was the most ignoble, heinous, hideous, and horrible crime of them all. However, and but! What else is new? I am neither shocked nor concerned because they are Human-Apes; and Apes of the utmost worst species, too! IF and WHEN you see or hear about beasts behaving thus or committing such acts, let me know.

Gleaned from:

Telegraph.co.uk 15^th March 2002 and Newsweek Magazine 2^nd September 2002

Saudi Arabia's religious police were reported to have beaten and forced schoolgirls back into a blazing building because they were not wearing Islamic headscarves and black robes – the hijab and the niqab, the Black Aluminium Foils or the Phantom Costumes.

Saudi newspapers reported that scuffles broke out between firemen and members of the Commission for the Promotion of Vice and the Prevention of Virtue who kept the girls inside the burning school in Mecca.

The girls were killed as the 800 students at the school stampeded to escape from the blazing building. Families of the victims were angry over the deaths of the girls in the fire that gutted the school. The resulting public criticism of the religious police, or mutaween, was highly unusual.

The English-language Saudi Gazette, in a front-page report: witnesses said members of the religious police stopped men who tried to help the girls escape from the building, saying: It is sinful to approach them.

A civil defence officer told the Arabic-language newspaper, Al-Eqtisadiah, that he saw members of the religious police beating young girls with batons to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the hijab or the niqab: Phantom Costumes or Black Aluminium Foils

They were told that the situation was very critical and did not allow for such behaviour, but they shouted and threatened and refused to move away from the gates, and the school watchman refused to open the gates to let the girls out. The girls' lives could have been saved had they not been stopped by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Vice and the Prevention of Virtue.

The much-feared mutaween roam the streets and alleys of the conservative kingdom at will, wielding batons to enforce dress codes and sex segregations, and to ensure that Islamic prayers are performed on time. Those that refuse to obey the orders of the religious police are usually beaten and oft-times jailed.

Who could or would have believed that any people, even Mad-Islamist vigilantes like the muttaween, could be so narrow-minded, cold, cruel, and heartless enough to act in such a disgusting and despicable manner in the face of death. It is horrific that those innocent young girls perished in the holiest city of Islam due to sheer pig-headedness on the part of the muttaween. They seem to have lost all reason and feeling in their attempt to protect the morals of Islam: God forbid that those teenage girls should be seen with their heads uncovered even in the face of certain death. It is unthinkable that in today's developing world, women can still legally be treated so unfairly and cruelly.

The fire that caused the horrible deaths of 15 innocent girls and the serious burns of more than 40 innocent young girls simply because merciless zealots kept civil-defense workers out of the school building by locking the doors, will certainly not die out.

An angry Pakistani reader wrote: Those mad-zealots of the officially sanctioned Commission for the Promotion of Vice and the Prevention of Virtue who enforce both the covering of women's heads and the strict separation of the sexes, will, I'm sure and I hope, themselves burn in the flames of hell for roasting those innocent children alive.

If only he knew that there is neither Heaven nor Hell...only Horse-shit.

The tragic fire became a small but sure, if slow, catalyst for change in Saudi Arabia. The government recognized the need to modernize its educational system and to revise its laws. It launched an ambitious programme last year to spend nearly $7 billion to build 8,000 new schools. But chronic budget limitations and the exploding population created difficulties and forced the Education Ministry to forgo new buildings in favour of leasing schools. More than half of the 27,000 schools in Saudi Arabia are in leased facilities not designed for schools. They lack basic safety measures such as fire escapes and fire-control systems. In April, a licence was granted to DSM Financial Services of New York to finance the $3 billion to build 3,000 schools by issuing government bonds. That project would dramatically improve education for its citizens.

The Saudi government must change its negative image, and that project would be a more potent symbol of change than any advertising campaign could ever be.

It will benefit millions of Saudis whose education and enlightenment will eventually leave them less susceptible to the fabrications spread by bogus heroes and mad clerics.

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