The Saudi boy who is studying at Redcliffe school in Western Australia did not argue with his colleague but went straight to his father at home and told him.

“The father went to the school manager and told him about what happened…the manager made the Australian student write an apology to his Saudi colleague,” the Saudi Arabic language daily Sabq said.

It quoted the boy as saying in his letter:”I am sorry to have called you this name…I did not mean to upset you.”

“I learned to be homosexual abroad”…Saudi tells police

A Saudi man arrested by the Gulf Kingdom’s feared religious police for stalking other men to have sex with him claimed he learned this habit while studying abroad.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested the man after receiving reports from some men at a coffee shop that he regularly visits the place and distributes “obscene” pictures of himself, Aloula newspaper said.

It said the man had also given his phone number to many customers at the café in the Western Red Sea port of Jeddah and invited some of them to his apartment.

“When they caught him, he confessed to having approached men but he said that he learned homosexuality while on a scholarship abroad,” the paper said.