Saudi is supposed to be one of the strictest custodians of Islam( Wahhabi Sect).
The rulers are anything but religious covertly.
And the action against the debauch is being handled with kis gloves in the name of Diplomacy.
All Hypocrites.
Story:
A Saudi prince who murdered his servant at the culmination of a campaign of “sadistic” abuse was today jailed for life and lambasted by a judge for telling a “pack of lies” in an attempt to conceal his crimes.
Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud, a grandson of the billionaire king of Saudi Arabia, was ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years for strangling and beating Bandar Abdulaziz to death at a five-star London hotel.
The prince bit the 32-year-old hard on both cheeks during the attack, which happened in their suite in February and was said to have had a sexual element.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/20/saudi-prince-jailed-for-life
Newspapers tread carefully.
There’s a symmetry about the simultaneous trials this week of the Saudi prince accused of beating his “servant” to death in a London hotel, and the Canadian air force officer who graduated from stealing women’s clothes to attacking women to murdering them. Both have touched the human fascination with tales of repressed or hidden vice, hypocrisy, murder – and perverse behaviour that goes well beyond the bounds of what is normal even in crime stories.
Both will also undeniably touch chords of what might euphemistically be termed inter-cultural hostility. The newspaper reports that I have read so far, while mentioning the playboy lifestyle of Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz, seemed rather careful not to make judgments about the nature of Saudi society – and particularly royal society, though his alcohol-fuelled party lifestyle while abroad seemed rather to illustrate numerous popularly-held prejudices about Gulf elites.
One or two went so far as to warn cautiously of strained relations with Saudi Arabia, a key western ally, arising from cases such as this.
The case of Colonel Russell Williams, which has a Gulf connection too, in that he used to head the Canadian air base in Dubai, has also been reported entirely straight, as far as I can see. It has baffled most people’s comprehension. Yet Middle Eastern readers might well be drawing conclusions about the effect of western sexual liberalism on the subconscious minds of men under stress.
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