One night, we decided to go and eat out in a nice restaurant. As we were pulling up in front of the mall, we saw a white muttawa (religious police) SUV right behind us. The last prayer of the day had just started. The muttawa love shopping malls because that is where men try to meet women and vice versa. All of a sudden, in front of the mall we started hearing angry commands issued through a megaphone. I turned around to look back if we were being asked to pull over by the police or something. Instead of policemen, I saw the muttawa sitting in their car going “salat salat… salat salat”. Salat is the Arabic word for prayer. In other words, they were telling people to go and pray since the last prayer had just started. Never seen that before.
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