[Emirates 24/7] Saudi Arabia will deport a Syrian expatriate for cursing God during a heated argument with a national man, a local newspaper said on Sunday.
The unnamed Syrian admitted to police that he cursed God and when they rebuked him, he got mad and cursed the police, Sharq said.
| "God damn God to hell" just doesn't sound right in English -- there seems something existentially impossible there. Perhaps it makes more sense in the original Arabic. |
"He was detained and will be deported from the Kingdom as soon as possible for this serious behavior," the paper said.
| He should thank his cursed God that the punishment wasn't more severe -- this is Saudi Arabia, where they play the bastinados on the feet of Englishmen who didn't smuggle alcohol into the Kingdom, after all. |
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