This writer was witness to a bunch of Saudi tourists walking down Connaught Place in New Delhi in Arab gear, and lifting up their robes whenever they passed a group of girls or women, laughing hysterically and clearly enjoying the freedom that they had been denied in a most perverse, vulgar fashion.
Sex and alcohol are both taboo in Saudi Arabia, and both available in good measure. A British male traveller recorded his experience in that country, where he was approached any number of times by men for sex.
Sodomy too is prohibited in Saudi Arabia but clearly not enough to prevent local Arabs from soliciting foreigners.
The internet is full of videos, articles, travelogues that confirm the Saudi Arab man's interest in sex, that is perverse in that it cannot be voiced, it prevents straight decent relationships, and where trips abroad---ask the drivers in London where the Saudis have bought streets and high end establishments----have a surfeit of both.
Saudi Arabia, as the unquestioning ally of the US and Israel in the region, has been spared the propaganda that was unleashed to justify the invasion of Iraq, Libya and the attack on Syria.
Women in most other Arab nations are empowered, and share an equal status with men. The two countries that were attacked by the US and its allies, with the help of Saudi Arabia---Iraq and Syria have given all rights to their women who are not in burkha but stand along with the men in top jobs and enjoy equal rights.
Hyderabad has become a destination of Arabs from oil rich countries, that means essentially the Gulf including Saudi Arabia, UAE with so called "sheikhs" arriving to buy young Muslim girls, virgins and minors, for money. Many of them are treated like sex slaves, passed on from 'sheikh' to 'sheikh' in what is covered under the fig leaf of a marriage document but is human trafficking at its worst.
Several such cases have come to light during the last decade or so but the practice has not stopped.
In several instances, the sheikhs have performed the nikah ceremony, taken the girl---really children---away to a hotel for a few days and then left the country with the devastated child and her family left without any recourse to the law.
In the current case in which the Saudi diplomat allegedly raped the two Nepalese women working in his house for over six months, the Indian government can do litte as per the diplomatic immunity laws than to declare him persona non grata so that he is deported immediately by his embassy that remains in denial mode.
Indian diplomatic sources said that despite the justifiable pressure there is no law under which the diplomat can be arrested and tried here.
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