“You’re so fine the religious police are going to banish you,” might be a relevant pickup line, or alternatively, “You’re so handsome, you should wear a veil yourself,” now that three men have allegedly been ejected from Saudi Arabia by the religious police for being “too handsome.” Evidently the theocrats thought that “female visitors would fall for them,” and so they were deported to Abu Dhabi.
Emirates 24/7 claims the three men were delegates promoting UAE, and that the religious police were concerned about the presence of a female Emirati artist.
Well fundamentalism is just following its thread of logic: if women should be veiled, what about those fine, handsome young men? Why deport them? Why not just veil handsome men as well?
One of the men appears to have been Omar Borkan Al Gala (the guy in the picture and the video). Judge for yourself if he is overly tempting.
Sunni Muslim society already prohibits women from talking with unrelated males. Perhaps with men this handsome, they simply couldn’t resist?
Al Gala linked the news of his ejection to his Facebook page – who, wouldn’t, right? – and said, “the beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” Yeah, whatever, just stick to being handsome and leave the lyricism to the poets; they need to have some upperhand after all.
Image Credit: Omar Borkan Al Gala’s Facebook page