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newcastle wrote:
Dear God..."decency police"...... .Has it come to this now? Is Egypt turning into KSA or Iran?
Nothing new - they have been around for ages.
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Are we talking about a special unit (as in KSA & Iran) whose purpose is the supervision of public morals.....or the usual busy-bodying attitude of some officers to what they consider to be inappropriate behaviour?
I've witnessed the latter....young Egyptian males in the company of foreign women being "hassled" by the tourism police.....but didn't realise there was a designated "decency police" force.
... makes no odds, you try and do the decent thing, only to be accused of being indecent...
Life is your's to do with as you wish- do not let other's try to control it for you. Count Dusak- 1345.
newcastle wrote:
Dear God..."decency police"...... .Has it come to this now? Is Egypt turning into KSA or Iran?
Nothing new - they have been around for ages.
\
Are we talking about a special unit (as in KSA & Iran) whose purpose is the supervision of public morals.....or the usual busy-bodying attitude of some officers to what they consider to be inappropriate behaviour?
I've witnessed the latter....young Egyptian males in the company of foreign women being "hassled" by the tourism police.....but didn't realise there was a designated "decency police" force.
We are talking about stage performance in Cairo, not tourist police. The explanation that I have been given in English is that men who have seemed out of place, occupying the best tables, were from the "Morality Police".
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.Has it come to this now? Is Egypt turning into KSA or Iran?
