
With alchohol and whoring banned (unless you're a member of the Saudi royal family) along with every other fun activity, most Saudis spend their leisure time sitting alone in darkened rooms waiting for death to arrive for some light relief. But for Muhammad Ali Abu Raziza, a psychology professor in Mecca, this wasn't enough and he decided to go to a coffee shop and drink coffee...with a woman. Having been promptly arrested by the religious police he has now been sentenced to 150 lashes and 8 months in prison.
One could argue that a psycholgy professor should have realised he was living amongst a nation of mad men and should therefore have been more careful.