Saudi Arabia – Residents of Saudi Arabia, where booze and New Year’s celebrations are banned, flooded into neighboring Bahrain in search of festivities to ring in 2013.
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More than 80,000 cars crossed a causeway over the Gulf to Bahrain Monday night to celebrate New Year’s Eve, the Saudi newspaper Al-Youm reported on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia adheres to a strict interpretation of Islam and bans alcohol as well as celebrations of Christmas and New Year’s Eve. It also prohibits unrelated men and women from mingling.
Saudis and foreign residents of the oil-rich kingdom frequently take the half-hour drive across the causeway to Bahrain on weekends, filling bars, movie theaters and hotels in the capital Manama. Some conservative Bahraini lawmakers, however, want the government to ban alcohol and close nightclubs.
Al-Youm said a few hours before midnight, the line of cars waiting to cross King Fahd bridge stretched for a half-mile with traffic police, security and passport officers out in force to keep the revelers flowing.
The woman third from the left looks very familiar.
Analogous to orthodox Jews going to Florida or the Carribean to enjoy the beaches.
Somebody put a flyer under my windshield wiper for a chain of hotels in nearby Bahrain. They had an offer for some sort of special rate, included holiday cookies and brunch included.
the above three comments are hilarious, thanks for the laugh!!!
They say that all the al qaida people they catch have porn all over their hard drives.
So they obviously don’t take as literal an interpretation of the koran on giluy arayot as they do on assassinating infidels
Why does the one towards the left have to wear a surgical mask if she has her face covered already? Does the hijab filter men’s stares, but not germs?
Also, this reminds me of a recent article elsewhere on chasidim periodically leaving Willie for some nightlife on the town.