Posted on 12/13/2016 4:40:54 PM PST by Kaslin
We’ve had our fair share of hijab news in the United States this year. You may recall that back during the Olympics, one Muslim athlete said that she didn’t feel safe in our country while wearing her traditional Muslim garb. In the heat of the election and the weeks which followed, we heard continual stories of “hate crimes” against women wearing such apparel, even though at least some of them turned out to be hoaxes. So I suppose wearing a hijab can be considered controversial. But not wearing one can cause even more issues depending where you live.
If’ you’re worried about repression and intolerance in the United States, perhaps you should check out what happens to women in a country where the idea of women’s rights is strictly the subject of fiction. Take, for example, our friend and ally Saudi Arabia. They’ve recently demonstrated that the 21st century is still an idea they want no part of and it’s a lesson which came the hard way to one young woman who decided to go to a local cafe without her head being covered. She tweeted a picture of herself doing it and things went downhill from there. (WaPo)
The Saudi woman was going out for breakfast when she decided to make a statement. Violating the country’s moral codes, she reportedly stepped out in public wearing a multicolored dress, a black jacket and ankle boots — without a hijab or abaya, a loosefitting garment.
Late last month, she tweeted a photo of her outfit, and the post circulated through Saudi Arabia, drawing death threats and demands to imprison or even execute the woman.
On Monday, police in the country’s capital of Riyadh said they had arrested the woman, following their duty to monitor “violations of general morals,” a spokesman, Fawaz al-Maiman, said, AFP reported. The woman, who is in her 20s, was imprisoned after posting the tweet of herself standing next to a popular Riyadh cafe, he said.
He also accused her of “speaking openly about prohibited relations” with unrelated men, according to AFP.
The first responses came not from the government, but from her own countrymen. Many responses on social media adopted a theme of, “we demand the imprisonment of the rebel Malak al-Shehri.” Many were worse, calling for her to literally lose her head. Another said her body should be dumped in the streets for the dogs. But the social outcry was only the beginning. The government soon came knocking and Ms. al-Shehri was arrested.
For not wearing a head scarf.
On the planet Earth.
In the 21st century.
It looks like she’s going to avoid losing her head, but the outcome isn’t all that much better. The latest reports indicate that she will be lashed. (Daily Mail)
A woman who received death threats after going out without her abaya in Saudi Arabia has been arrested and now faces being lashed…
The Arabic-language al-Sharq newspaper said the woman was detained after a complaint was filed by the religious police.
‘Police officers have detained a girl who had removed her abaya on al-Tahliya street, implementing a challenge she announced on social media several days ago,’ Colonel Fawaz al-Maiman, a Riyadh police spokesman, was quoted as saying.
Getting a lashing in that country is more serious than a spanking from your parents. People have been known to die from it while others wind up being disfigured for life. And this is the punishment the woman received after the “religious police” freaked out because of a picture of her standing on the sidewalk dressed in a stylish fashion went viral.
If this is how our friends treat women can you imagine how it must be among our enemies?
I spent a short time in Riyadh.
The worst thing ever to happen to me in my life happened there. I still can’t talk to my husband about it.
Stay away from there.
That hellhole should be glassed (after warning the women and children who don’t support sharia law to get out).
So sorry to hear that. I hope you find healing and peace
That’s about what it will take - something not designed to start a war, but to completely break their will to fight.
Worked in Atlanta (and the March to the Sea).
Worked in Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
Worked to some extent in Kuwait (Highway of Death).
If the US were to fully commit to it, even in the face of the leftist media, it would work.
Nuke Mecca.
It’s a start.
The poison of sharia must be kept out of western society. The two are not compatible and never will be. I wish the foolish left would come to realize that before they have to learn it the hard way.
Spent a year in Saudi, would never recommend it.
Saudi men really do not know how to handle themselves around western women. If infidel women go out in public among a crowd of Saudis, men will grope them and pinch them on the behind. It is what they do. It would take literally centuries to train them differently.
Yup.
Two ways to win a war:
(1) Kill everyone on the other side.
(2) Break the other side’s will to fight.
We aren’t trying to do either. Hooefully Trump will.
Hopefully*
i can only imagine.
i spent a while in riyadh (i think the pic shown is just outside the al faisaliah mall). my friend’s wife was almost stolen. another friend’s lady was hit in the road while training (tri-athlete)... the ensuing argument was leaning towards it being her fault for being in the country... she left the area before they could twist the ‘logic’ to suit that result (broken wrist and 2 broken ribs)
no western woman should ever go to a muslim country.
...and the idiot liberals here are worried about gender neutral pronouns. Yes, any lib lurkers out there - you are idiots. You will never get over or past your idiocy until you admit it and recognize it.
words fail me...
My old friend Edward Behr, a distinguished foreign correspondent for Newsweek, wrote a memoir of his life on the front lines with the cynical title (in its London edition) Anyone Here Been Raped And Speaks English? – which, naturally, the halfwit American publisher changed to the somnolently portentous Bearings: A Foreign Correspondent’s Life Behind The Lines.
Well; I have neither the lifespan nor the patience to wait around for centuries, so my solution is to just kill’em all.
“Nuke’em from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure”.
Hay; if they will hump a goat or a camel, what makes you think a manikin is safe?
(they are all in dresses, but I assume they are male)
Should have been “Hey”.
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