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Saudis Provide Mobile Prayer Rugs for Football Fans

  •   Mon, Jun 28 2010 03:46:13 AM

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Riyadh, Jun 28: Saudi religious police are laying prayer rugs in the streets to encourage football fans not to miss their prayers when watching World Cup matches, news reports said Sunday.

Small rugs have been rolled out at specially assigned places in Tahlia Street, one of Riyadh's main thoroughfares, where football lovers gather to watch World Cup matches on giant television screens.

Sabq news website reported that most people supported the idea, which will continue as long as World Cup matches clash with prayer times in areas where mosques are not at hand.

Muslims are required to pray five times a day. Rugs are used to ensure that the area used for praying is clean.

Known as the "Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice", the religious police is a government entity which enforces a strict dress code, segregation of the sexes and makes sure no one misses prayers.
  

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  • ILYAS MOMIN SHIRUR KOLA, SHIRUR-ALJUBAIL-K S A

    Wed, Jun 30 2010

    Mr.tom Cat... For your information "you need to follow RULES AND REGULATIONS"Of the country in which you are living,
    and as per rule doing business and opening shops at the time of prayers is prohibited. the MUTWWA AND POLICE catch only this peoples and not the peoples walking on roads,

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  • Tom Cat, Mangalore/ Saudi Arabia

    Mon, Jun 28 2010

    People are caned if not praying at said time,in Najran saudi city the moral police pick muslims walking the streets and punished.I pity them

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  • aboobaker uppala, Uppala/Makkah

    Mon, Jun 28 2010

    This Government must be a role model for the other governments.Any government implementing the sahria rule,the success will kiss their feets.Once the father of our nation Mahatma Gandhiji said "The rule which I like in India is the rule of the second caliph of islam OMAR IBN KHATTAB"

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