As it stand now, the sharia says that there should be no mixing between the genders.
However the saudi vodka society says after a couple of drinks what sharia? we make sharia and we update it whenever we like. if need be we can just make up a hadith from the prophet allowing free mixing and maybe drinking in moderation.
A poor sheikh

" yaah maalik (king of king) I don't think that is rigth"
the response from saudi arabia was as follow:
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Sunday issued a royal decree relieving Sheikh Saad bin Nasser bin Abdul Aziz Al-Shethri of his duties as member of the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars and the permanent committee for Islamic research and ruling (Ifta).
“We hereby instruct all concerned departments to implement this order,” the decree said.
The action against the scholar came a few days after his controversial statement questioning free mixing between genders, males and female co-education at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), which was officially opened by the king on Sept. 23 in the presence of several world leaders and renowned scientists and academics.