For Cloaked Saudi Women, Color Is the New Black

Washington Post ^ | May 28, 2007 | Faiza Saleh Ambah

[gridlock]

This Afghan woman's abaya is blue.

So I guess that means she isn't being "oppressed"...

[AnnaZ]

The pilot must announce it ?

That's what I've heard as well. In-flight alcohol service is also apparently affected by the location in airspace.

[AnnaZ]

A major factor in the change was the involvement of young Saudis in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Many people began to question the official Wahhabi ideology that was believed to have partly inspired the hijackers

It's hard to believe those words were printed in the comPost.

[null and void]

Funny, but somewhat scary tagline...

[wysiwyg]

"God ordered women to dress modestly, to be respectable and to avoid provoking lust."

All the responsibility for "avoiding provoking lust" is on women. Men are free to do as they please. When an illicit affair occurs, it is always the woman's fault.

Why aren't American feminists attacking islam? </irony>

[antiRepublicrat]

They cannot drive or work alongside men and are forced to cover up with the abaya in public.

Change is coming from within for those brave enough to fight the oppressive systems. The first I heard of any resistance was in the 90s when a group of Saudi women conspicuously drove around in a car alone in protest of the prohibition.

Personally, I think if every fed-up Muslim woman would take a tip (or more than a tip) from Lorena Bobbit, this problem would end rather quickly.

[EBH]

At a mall on fashionable Tahlia Street recently, a line of young men trailed three fully covered young women wearing the niqab, or face veil, with slits that exposed only their eyes. The women, who had stopped to look at cellphone accessories, wore tight black abayas, green and blue contact lenses, heavy mascara and eyeliner, and strong perfume.

[AnnaZ]

;^)

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

The first I heard of any resistance was in the 90s when a group of Saudi women conspicuously drove around in a car alone in protest of the prohibition.

They were probably stoned to death shortly thereafter.

[null and void]

Møøslimb men are already circumcised...

[sgtbono2002]

The only thing this proves is that they are frightened not to wear that crap in Saudi.

[george76]

[george76]

If we were to lose this global war, the liberal women would be wearing burkas and they would lose their right to vote, go to school, hold a job, drive a car...

[george76]

The comPost editors must have been asleep :

A major factor in the change was the involvement of young Saudis in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Many people began to question the official Wahhabi ideology that was believed to have partly inspired the hijackers

[the OlLine Rebel]

ROFL!

How “disrepectful” of them, to make fun of foreign customs!

[the OlLine Rebel]

Since they are PART of the “everyone is =” crowd, wherein every nation is the same and every culture (except the US, which is inferior), and hence they cannot question customs or disparage them, they have painted themselves in corners.

Since they’ve basically said Moslem culture is “good” and it’s OK to do all these things in Moslem culture (how dare we judge!), they cannot backtrack on their approval of this foreign culture.

Moreso, however, it’s probably because their hatred of the US as a non-communist republic trumps any “love” they have for women. Attacking Moslems would implicitly be approval of “US” culture.

[sionnsar]

ping

[antiRepublicrat]

Møøslimb men are already circumcised...

Cut off a lot more.

[M. Espinola]

Good one! :)

[Cacique]

btt