Kix

From The National

House to house searches for unmarried couples, have the police nothing better to do?

Meow

"Let's spend our time hassling two consenting adults doing something in private rather than dealing with dangerous drivers, spousal abuse or theft."

scrubbedexpat141

This shit makes me nervous.

spartans53

Lets also check that they are covered up even if they are wed.

weasel decentral

I don't understand what's the issue here? They may have (in our eyes) higher priorities but its Sharjah what do people expect?

Meow

Er, it's daft? Yes Sharjah is like that, but it's daft. Children keep falling off balconies and dying in Sharjah. Anyone with half a brain would see that as a higher priority.

Debowing

It's a good thing they weren't doing all this in 07 when I was living in great sin with my filipina sweetheart!!! I was in Al Nahda and that is technically Dubai but still near enought to Sharjah...

Patsy Stoned

It is coming up to Ramadan, they always do stuff like this around this time in Sharjah

Don't worry Scamp, unless you do something stupid to bring notice to yourselves you will be left in peace.

http://www.timeoutdubai.com/knowledg...plained/page/2

britexpat76

****ing pricks. Maybe they are looking for a sailor at the same time?

Patsy Stoned

Salah Mabrouk, a Dubai based lawyer who regularly handles cases in Sharjah's courts, said: "First of all, we need to know that such cases in this country are not guided by criminal laws but by Sharia law. "In Sharia law the punishment for a fornicator is different to one of an adulterer, a fornicator is lashed 100 lashes while an adulterer is stoned to death."

Thank goodness I am just a fornicator then

Debowing

Does it specify if the fornicator/adulterer is a man or a woman? Is it the same punishment?

Meow

So in terms of punishment it's better to be a rapist than an adulterer? Bloody primitives!

lullabelle

Dont worry Scamp, i know loads of fornicators in Dubai. Sharjah, as Patsy has said, is so very *special.*

It has happened in Abu Dhabi though. My friends got married in the UK only last week after a tip off that someone had reported them. God (pick any one) only knows how they can tell... It's not like us marrieds all have stamps on our foreheads.

Fornicate - it's a great word, isn't it? So olde worlde mental.

mathematist

I heard the Mutawwa are on a work exchange trip and will be spreading their expertise to different parts of the Gulf. Looks like they've started already...

Meow

And you approve?