Saudi Arabia is bizarre as we know. So I like looking at their paper. (I still miss the “Religious Policeman” blogger who came up with the Muslim Offense Level color code system.)
Today’s version had this story about a Nigerian Muslim who is in Saudi Arabia to study Islam. He had learned that his 63 old neighbor was in need of a hospital and he took her to numerous places until he found a hospital that would take her in.
Now he’s in jail. Why? She was female and not at all related to him and he spent time alone with her.
Despite the charitable act Mohammed ended up in detention, accused of immoral behavior because he was neither married nor related by blood to the elderly woman.
So there are two things weird right there. 1) the immoral behavior part and 2) elderly? at 63?
Speaking to Arab News on phone from his cell in the Malaz prison, Mohammed said that after the woman received treatment and after he returned to Riyadh after three days in the Western Region, he was arrested after checking up on the woman’s health. In the woman’s apartment were three other women related to her.
“I was glad to note that the lady was making steady progress,” he said. “While we were chatting, there was a knock on the door. When this lady opened the door, four or five Saudis, whom I had seen outside the building before, barged in. They accused me of being alone with the woman unrelated to me and suspected my intention behind this visit to her apartment.”
His own family back in Nigeria are upset with him too.
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