Media Biased Against the Virtue Commission?
Abeer Mishkhas, 12/6/08
During a formal gathering for retirees from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the organization’s head said that he was worried that the new generation would hate the committee members. He gave as the reason for his concern the media’s constant coverage of mistakes made by commission members. He went on to say, “Everyone who works (for the commission) has enemies. The commission prevents people from succumbing to their desires and it is those same people who hate our work and look hard to find mistakes so that they can magnify them for the public.” The director also stated that he was demanding a 20 percent increase in the salaries of commission members in order to compensate them for the dangerous nature of their jobs. What we conclude from the director’s speech is that he considers anyone who points out a mistake or complains about an injustice perpetrated by the commission members to be an enemy of the establishment.
See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=110810&d=12&m=6&y=2008
Tags: Religion, Saudi Arabia, Vice Commission