Reply #72: And we have a government agency doing that? [View All]

That's what you're neglecting, HJ: the Muttawa are an official police force employed by the Saudi government. It's not a bunch of random religious zealots out there committing crimes in the name of Allah, like we have here (well, change the name of the deity and you've got it), it's a bunch of carefully selected religious zealots out there following, to the letter, the law laid down by the Saudi rulers in the name of Allah.

If a rebellious child is killed by dehydration and starvation because of demon possession in the US, the exorcists go to jail and they COULD wind up staring down a needle. If the same shit happened in Saudi--remember, Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that uses "public beheading" as its form of capital punishment and honor killing is still legal (http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/04/honor-killing-over-facebook-in-saudi-arabia-cleric-vehemently-condemns-facebook.html)--they'd give the guy a promotion.