Saudis Crack Down on Women's Clothes

MANAMA, Bahrain --

The Saudi government is cracking down on factories producing versions of women's cloaks that violate religious rules, a government-controlled newspaper said Thursday.

The report did not say what versions were being targeted of the black, head-to-toe garments Saudi women are required to wear, but some women in the conservative kingdom have been wearing cloaks with glittering red, blue or silver sequins on the cuffs or a jeans pocket sewn on the back.

Cloaks found to be in violation of the rules "will be confiscated and destroyed, while punitive measures will be taken against their owners," the English-language Arab News newspaper quoted Abdul Ali bin Ibrahim Abdul Aali, in charge of combatting trade fraud in the conservative Gulf kingdom, as saying.

Aali said that the ministry is working with the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice to enforce the crackdown on factories producing the "non-regulation" garments, which are becoming increasingly popular in large Saudi cities, the newspaper reported.

It was not clear when the crackdown began. Ministry officials could not be reached for comment.

Aali said a Saudi religious ruling requires a "decent woman's" cloak to be thick and non-revealing, not body hugging, and devoid of decorations or markings that would attract public attention, the newspaper said.

They cannot enjoy sex, because of their mandatory "clitorectomies" so they just eat... and eat and eat. It would be interesting to get a REAL statistical study on the rate of female suicides, murders and "accidental" immolations these ladies face.

Indeed, i expect the statistics would be horrifying, not to mention the number of women, who for one reason or another haven't made the leap into Allah's bosom, whose psyches are utterly and irrevocably damaged because of the subhuman mutilation of their bodies and the attendant degradation of their intrinsic value as human beings.

They are NOT allowed to take any pride in their God given beauty... as this is considered adultery, and sexually immoral behavior.

I never could fathom how it is to their husbands' advantage, in any way, that their wives should both not be able to experience the 'pleasure' of their physical intimacy, let alone be inhibited from making themselves as attractive as they might be inspired to do so for their husbands. But then again, i'm thinking in terms of civilized human beings. oh well.

But then again, i'm thinking in terms of civilized human beings.

Never forget, the jokes about their men.... and goats or camels... aren't.

"Midnight at the oasis... send your camel to bed..."

by Maria Muldair... remember? The female in the song has to TELL the male NOT to sleep with the camel.

It was quite a slap at the perverted camel jockeys and their twisted view of sexual behavior. It was funny, because it is probably not altogether a joke.

Poor women, poor men... STUPID, denigrating, dehumanizing religion... Islam and Idiot... both begin with I and have the same number of letters. Coincidence?

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