Women to be forced to cover 'tempting eyes'
You have to get in the mood for this one, so here's a song that was very popular in the '70's when I was in high school and college.Let's go to the videotape.
In Saudi Arabia, there are men who claim to be tempted by black bags like the ones below:
What's left by which you could be tempted? The eyes.... No more.... Saudi Arabia’s Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, known as Haia, the kingdom’s religious police, has decreed a stricter dress code for women in the province of Ha’il.Aren't you glad you don't live in Saudi Arabia?
Motlaq Al-Nabit, spokesperson for the Haia in Ha’il, said Wednesday that “the Haia men will intervene to force women to cover their eyes, especially tempting ones.”
The Haia enforces Sharia (Islamic law) in Saudi Arabia and is responsible for supervising public spaces to ensure the separation of sexes, following strict dress codes, and other conduct claimed to be ordered by Islam.
A strict translation of the authority’s name from Arabic would be the Committee for the Ordering (not promotion) of Virtue.
Known to be the kingdom’s second most powerful political body after the ruling Al-Saud family, the Haia's policemen are feared in Saudi streets.
Due to the nature of their job, Haia men may approach and arrest anyone they deem as breaking their rules, even if they are as ambiguous as inciting "fitna," or temptation.
In 2010, Saudi citizen Atallah Al-Rashidi clashed with a Haia member in Ha’il when the Haia member insisted Al-Rashidi’s wife cover her eyes. The scuffle ended with the policeman stabbing Al-Rashidi twice, leading to his hospitalisation.
The case was taken to court and after five months the Haia member was declared innocent and Atallah sentenced to nine months in jail and 350 lashes for “arrogance”.
It is not clear if any standards will be established to separate tempting or provocative eyes from normal ones, nor whether the decree will be implemented on a national level or in Ha’il alone.
Labels: Muslim world, Saudi Arabia
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:20 AM
6 Comments:
And there's little Israel, a diamond in a sea of mud, as Pat Condell put it. What would all the Arabs do without Israel and Jews? There'd be nobody to blame for their own backwardness and self-imposed misery.
Ok ! Done !lol
http://twitpic.com/36shpt/full
You make fun of this but are pretty comfortable with the ridiculous orthodox traditions regarding non-family male/female contact.
What gives with the double standard?
Ais Cotten19,
The rabbis made sensible rules (and yes, many of them are rabbinic and not Torah-based) that do not turn women into burlap sacks.
Judaism also has no prohibitions on women driving, and would not allow women to burn to death because they weren't covered up enough.
The rabbis made sensible rules (and yes, many of them are rabbinic and not Torah-based) that do not turn women into burlap sacks.
So why are most Jewish women opposed to Halacha or a theocracy and prefer secular to Torah law if the laws are sensible?
You lie.
You cannot compare the SECULAR laws of Israel, most of which make a mockery of Torah law to a theocracy.
What you SHOULD be comparing Saudi Arabia to is a Jewish theocracy. How many women here (I bet many are more extreme than ais Cotton19) would support an Orthodox theocracy?
Now compare that to Iraq where secular law was DUMPED by modern secular Iraqi women for Sharia law.
Judaism also has no prohibitions on women driving, and would not allow women to burn to death because they weren't covered up enough.
It isn't anti Islam to drive, women during The Prophets time rode horses and camels and fought in battle, the equivalent to today's driving.
You also exhibit a double standard and you lie. If you think Rabbi's made sensible laws, and the ban on women men mixing is Rabbinic not Torah, the same can be said for our laws being not Quranic.
Women are better protected under Sharia than under Halacha.
Carl should tell us if his wife would be able to divorce him. Of course he won't. He will instead say she doesn't want a divorce.
Israel's Orthodox women clamor for the right to divorce http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN3BtvFtmK8
------------------
and he should tell us of this beach. What would happen if I went there in a bikini? or even swam nude? I dread to think. Recall the firebomb attempt in Jerusalem by someone who didn't want women and men to sit together fully clothed,
------------------
and he should tell us of this, instead of hiding behind Saudi Arabia. Hypocrite.
The Burqa Ban…For Orthodox Jewish Women
http://jezebel.com/5602542/the-burqa-banfor-orthodox-jewish-women
Ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Israel are about to issue an edict banning a particular outfit adopted by a few women — because it's too modest. That outfit? A burqa
The ultra-Orthodox have a beach of their own in Tel Aviv where they can bathe covered from head .
---------------
and this
Jewish 'ultras' defend morals with menace
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/21/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast1
---------
As a matter of fact, Carl and his bunch of extremists would be right at home in Saudi Arabia probably more so than in the secular Tel Aviv
Post a Comment
<< Home