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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - The governor of the northern al-Jof region, Prince Fahd bin Badr has recently
ordered that men who are caught flirting with women in public places will get their hair cut off. What prompted this decision? The Prince witnessed a bunch of long-haired men pestering some female students as the students were leaving their
school in the northern al-Qurayat province. It is also because of "the repeated pestering of women in souks."
On Sunday, at his palace in the northern town of Skaka, the Prince told his police to apply the punishment to all youths who are caught flirting, and that this was to include the sons of his senior military and civil officials. The punishment will be done at the very place that the flirting and pestering was caught.
Al-Hayat newspaper quoted the Prince as saying, "The decision doesn't include men who spend their free time in public places without hurting anyone."
The Islamic lifestyle is a strict one, where men and women are segregated in public. This is regulated and enforced by the government's own
Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. In other words, the "religious police". Their job is to make sure that the sexes don't mingle, that women remain vealed and do not wear make up. As well, they make sure that shops close five times a day for Muslim prayers, and so that the men can go to the mosque and worship.
Clergymen in this country don't believe that men should have long hair, as it 'emulates' the women.
This decision doesn't include all men with long hair, however.
