Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Saudi Arabia outlaws ‘tempting eyes’
Metro(UK) ^ | 4 Nov 20124 | Harry Readhead

Posted on 11/15/2014 7:05:22 PM PST by TWhiteBear

A new law in Saudi Arabia banning ‘tempting eyes’ has become the latest example of female oppression in the country.

The law, which states that women with alluring eyes will be forced to wear a full veil, has been branded ‘stupid’ by dissenters and roundly criticised on social media, aina.org reports.

Sheikh Motlab al Nabet, spokesman of the Saudi Arabian Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, said they ‘had the right’ to force women to cover their face.

‘The men of the committee will interfere to force women to cover their eyes, especially the tempting ones,’ he said.

‘We have the right to do so.’

Many commentators wondered how the word ‘tempting’ would be applied. One unnamed journalist in the country suggested it referred to ‘uncovered eyes with a nice shape and makeup.’

‘Or even without makeup, if they are beautiful, the woman will be in trouble,’ they added.

Prince Naif, whose impending ascension to the Saudi throne many hoped would spell an end to this kind of draconian oppression, looks likely to be as intolerant as his father King Abdullah after suggesting that any Muslim should support the Committee’s new law.

‘The committee is supported by all sides,’ he said.

‘It should be supported because it is a pillar of Islam. If you are a Muslim, you should support the committee.’


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eyes; islam; muslim; muslimwomen; muslimworld; rop; saudi; sharia
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081 next last
To: TWhiteBear

21 posted on 11/15/2014 7:27:14 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ((I once was blind but now I see...))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pearls Before Swine
"You're talking BC (birth control) frames."


Are these sharia-approved?
22 posted on 11/15/2014 7:27:18 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Ray76
ROTFL

Got a picture of a camel also?

23 posted on 11/15/2014 7:27:53 PM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: goldstategop

There doesn’t seem to be any tradition of self discipline in muslim societies, they actually need to be kept in line by threats. I suspect that Saddam was custom made for the job.


24 posted on 11/15/2014 7:28:50 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: immadashell

Do you see those eyes? Wowza!


25 posted on 11/15/2014 7:28:50 PM PST by Ray76 (We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: TWhiteBear

I’m surprised that there isn’t a requirement that “tempting eyes” be gouged out or sewn shut. Better that then having pure-of-heart Muslim guys be sent down the Road to Perdition.


26 posted on 11/15/2014 7:29:18 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jack Hydrazine

27 posted on 11/15/2014 7:30:19 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29gt1fD4abc


28 posted on 11/15/2014 7:30:53 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: TWhiteBear

Well, I suppose they won’t be able to drive cars any more, what with the veil over their eyes and all.

Oh, wait a minute.


29 posted on 11/15/2014 7:33:30 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Eccl 12 V.13)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kjam22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCiPkazVzFA


30 posted on 11/15/2014 7:33:42 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: TWhiteBear

31 posted on 11/15/2014 7:35:23 PM PST by Bratch
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TWhiteBear

COEXIST..... uhuh.


32 posted on 11/15/2014 7:35:39 PM PST by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kjam22

She has kind eyes.

The kind I like...


33 posted on 11/15/2014 7:36:32 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: TWhiteBear

“These guys are nutzo. “

maybe, but here, men on college campuses who have “wandering eyes”, are disciplined for leering.

so in Saudi, extremist men rule, in America, extremist women rule. I guess planet wide, its a wash.


34 posted on 11/15/2014 7:36:46 PM PST by willywill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SWAMPSNIPER

“There doesn’t seem to be any tradition of self discipline in muslim societies,” — very little & for men in particular. These Islamic laws & ‘threats’ are all part of a strict social engineering.


35 posted on 11/15/2014 7:40:21 PM PST by odds
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: TWhiteBear

This is brilliant! No woman will want to admit that she doesn’t have Tempting Eyes, so all women will voluntarily wear veils....and nobody will have to be cited!

In fact....I foresee a competition amongst the women to see who can wear the heaviest veil....soon they will all be stumbling around completely blind....

Which raises the question....wouldn’t it be more effective to just gouge out all the men’s eyes? After all, a veil might fall off.


36 posted on 11/15/2014 7:41:15 PM PST by JoeDetweiler
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TWhiteBear

Guess the next step will be if a male were to look at that shapeless blob and said ‘Shes Hot!’, she is a candidate for stoning.

Yes ladies of the Western World and Libs everywhere, if you don’t think these people will be trying this shiite here, you have another thought coming.

They have already made it so PUBLIC SUPPORTED POOLS with admission - have to ‘give’ them an afternoon or so a week so they can enjoy the pool without “US” staring at them.

Uh, I have the sort of ‘shape’ (well pear and round are shapes aren’t they) that not only puts wearing shorts out of the question, I also do not appear in public in swimsuits, or tight fitting clothes.

So, if you don’t want them ‘laughing’ at you stay home.


37 posted on 11/15/2014 7:42:02 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98) Would love to buy BO for what he is worth, then sell him for what he thinks he is worth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TWhiteBear
Image and video hosting by TinyPic
38 posted on 11/15/2014 7:42:26 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kjam22

wow... amazing how just eyes alone can affect you and tell you all you need to know.

beautiful.


39 posted on 11/15/2014 7:42:33 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: TurboZamboni

Eyegor


40 posted on 11/15/2014 7:44:55 PM PST by morphing libertarian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson