The following quote was taken from foxnews.com.  It is truly getting harder to embrace that religion of peace thing isn't it.  The same people that support the Saudi's actions want tolerance to be the hallmark of other people's treatment of Muslims.  What is laughable is that the western supporters of the religious police would be at the end of the lash simply for their life style if they lived in Saudi Arabia.  Can you imagine the religious police working the beaches of California?  Not a pretty thought.

I do, however, think the socialists/liberals and the religious police might be able to find some common ground.  They both like to control other peoples lives and actions, they both hate white english speaking males, they both hate guns except if they are the only ones that can own them, they both agree with same sex marriage . . . wait that last one might be a stumbling block.  Scratch that.  I think it would be better for the western left to admire the religious police from afar but if you don't we reserve the right to say: I told you so.

"A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The defendants were among 433 foreigners, including some 240 women, arrested by the kingdom's religious police for attending the party in Jiddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz said. It did not identify the foreigners, give their nationalities or say when the party took place.

Judge Saud al-Boushi sentenced the 20 to prison terms of three to four months and ordered them to receive an unspecified number of lashes, the newspaper said. They have the right to appeal, it added.

The prosecutor general charged the 20 with "drinking, arranging for impudent party, mixed dancing and shooting a video for the party," Okaz said."