Tribal Custom Means a Husband Never Sees His Wife's Face

Arab News (The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily) ^ | 4 September 2003 | Raid Qusti, Riyadh Bureau Chief

[Dick Bachert]

Bill klintoon must have belonged to that tribe.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Western tribal customs also include the unborn being used as skin rejuvenation products for beauty and health. Such a civilized world we live in...

[Dick Bachert]

Waayyy too much eye makeup for me...

[vladimir998]

Quote from the article:

“A woman in her sixties explained that this tradition, like many others, is disappearing fast.”

GOOD.

If that isn’t a horribly sick culture then I don’t know what is! How can a mother not want her child to see her face?

[farmer18th]

Islam itself is what produced, and nurtures, the custom. Watch Kandahar sometime.

[SIDENET]

These Saudi guys obviously know nothing about the fine art of pestering your wife.

If I were married to one of those gals, it would have taken me maybe a week tops before I saw her face.

[nmh]

#7 that last one makes me WINCE.

YUCK!

[Paleo Conservative]

This is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. There are some “double burka” kinda women out there, no doubt about it, but the beauty they miss...they’re insane.

Imagine what effect this has on the gene pool. With no selective pressure for beautiful females, maybe it would be better not to see what's under the burka?

[freekitty]

Now that’s a face that could only speak for the continuation for the practice.

[ThreePuttinDude]

OH MY GAWD, can that be real??

I don’t know what I would do if I saw something like that
walking towards me on the street, but I do know I would
have to say something.

[VOA]

Tribal Custom Means a Husband Never Sees His Wife's Face

My first thought: Must be Islam at work.

My second thought: Probably not a bad idea when the females of
your tribe end up looking like "Klinger" (Jamie Farr on "MASH")
or Ms. Ashwari (sp?) (the PLO spokes-gal that Peter Jennings
suppossedly dated when he was posted by ABC in The Middle East).

[Eric in the Ozarks]

What a totally f.u. society.

[RJL]

Undamnedbelievable.

LOL... Saying these folks are stuck in the seventh century is about a thousand years more credit than they deserve!

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

[GBA]

I’m not sure selective pressure for beauty is working here either. I spent quite a bit of time shopping in a Super Walmart yesterday. Yikes! Maybe there’s something to the burka idea.

[donna]

Saud Al-Otaibi also found his wife fiercely loyal to the custom. “I tried to blackmail my wife by saying I’d marry another woman if she didn’t show me her face,” he said.

Sure, he'd take one look and then cut her head off.

[weegee]

Helen Thomas lookalikes rejoice.

[VeritatisSplendor]

Yes, I thought that children not being able to see their mothers’ faces was even worse than husbands not being able to see their wives’. Nursing babies are fascinated by their mother’s faces; they stare into their eyes and reach up to touch.

Mrs VS

[kalee]

Peter Jenning dated her? Any respect I had for him is GONE, not that I had much to begin with.