These women are in big trouble.

Saudi religious police say they have uncovered the country’s first female-run alcohol factory, in the eastern city of Dammam. Alcohol production and consumption is strictly forbidden in Saudi Arabia, which adheres to the fundamentalist Wahabi interpretation of Islam.

The alleged illegal alcohol factory was located inside an empty house, where religious police said they had in recent weeks noted a number of foreign women carrying containers into and from the house.

Busted at the scene were several African women aged 35 to 45. The report does not state how many were arrested.

Nor does the report indicate what punishment they face, but I bet it’s not pretty.

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• 1 January 2009 -- Saudi Arabia should have minimum age for marriage

Tags: Islamic teaching, Saudi Arabia
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