Middle East Focus: Shaikhs of Sharjah Wave Shariah at Shacking Couples, Au Naturel……………..

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Shaikhs of Sharjah Wave Shariah at Shacking Couples, Au Naturel……………..

“The door-to-door search is the latest effort by Sharjah authorities to enforce Islamic codes in their enclave, which borders far more freewheeling Dubai. The campaign, detailed Thursday in local media, follows a police report that a couple was arrested for living together out of wedlock.Violators may face jail and deportation. But Shariah, or Islamic law, remains on the books and includes possible sentences of lashings.The UAE outlaws unmarried couples from living together, but Sharjah enforces the strictest rules. The emirate -- one of seven that comprise the UAE -- also imposes a blanket ban on alcohol. Sharjah's Police recently arrested a man for wearing a lungi as part of a crackdown on the attire in public. The lungi is a piece of brightly colored silk or cotton cloth that is wrapped around the waist. It is worn in India, Pakistan, Myanmar and other South Asian countries………….”

The sarong is banned publicly, but presumably not the moo-moo.
Speaking of the “lungi” (sarong), it is worn routinely around the house in all Persian Gulf states, and at sea as well. Everybody wore the wizar before the oil boom on the streets, and now they wear them around the yard and at home. They are also the most comfortable sleeping attire, after au naturel. Hell, even the shaikhs wore the lungi/wizar: they still do, except they are YSL or Gucci brands.
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