Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz ruled out the participation of women in landmark municipal elections in the conservative Muslim kingdom next year.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)
Posted on 10/10/2004 6:42:52 PM PDT by TexKat
RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz ruled out the participation of women in landmark municipal elections in the conservative Muslim kingdom next year.
"I don't think the participation of women is on the cards," the official SPA news agency quoted him as telling reporters during a visit to Kuwait for a meeting of Gulf Arab interior ministers.
Three Saudi women have said they intend to run in the first-ever nationwide ballot to elect half the members of 178 municipal councils despite the uncertainty about whether they would be allowed to take part.
The text of the regulatory framework for the elections did not explicitly exclude women. It used the Arabic masculine form in referring to citizens eligible to vote, a common practice in the kingdom's legal texts.
The election, to be held in three stages from February 10 through April 21, is part of a drive to introduce limited reforms, which Riyadh insists must be tailored to Saudi specifications and not necessarily follow a Western pattern.
Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz ruled out the participation of women in landmark municipal elections in the conservative Muslim kingdom next year.(AFP/File/Yasser al-Zayyat)
Maybe he has met Hillary.
Aziz, if you treated your women with the slightest respect, you might get laid once in a while, and then not be so frustrated and hell-bent on killing others in a silly Jihad.
We've let a tiger out of the cage by enfranchising the women in Afghanistan. Just watch! The issue will confront the Saudis from now until their women vote.
Bullseye! Freedom IS contagious.
It should also make feminists in our country take notice. How can they honestly not care about what Bush has done for women in Afghanistan and Iraq. This disconnect between women's rights at home and abroad is a sure sign of a dishonest liberal.
Why should he bother? He's in Saudi Arabia, where he can rape and molest with impunity.
As I mentioned to someone earlier, in the Islamofascist religious freakdom of Saudi Arabia, where gender and religious apartheid is the norm the elites import slaves "maids" from places like Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines and take away their passports, their rights and their dignity.... where their "employers" are able to beat them, molest them, and rape them, and where the "mistress" of the house is unable/unwilling to act as she is a mere "woman", and her only course of action to seeing her husband screw the "maid" is to take out her frustrations on the innocent slave by beating her husbands after her lecherous husbands done.
Saudi, a proud nation where if your maid tries to run away because of your treatment, you can simply accuse her of "theft" and she conveniently ends up at "chop chop square" after Friday prayers... after all, shes "only a woman."
I guess this still means NO JOOOOOOS! NO WOMEN! NO FILTHY KUFFUR, MUSHRIKOUN, OR "ENEMIES" OF THE ULEMA OR HOUSE OF SAUD OF ANY KIND!
Darn, they will never let me vacation in sunny Mecca or scenic Medina at this rate...
Yep! A darn shame we're paying them $53/barrel.
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