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What Is Beauty And Who Decides? Saudi Arabia, which enforces sex segregation, has just come up with another ruling that is difficult to understand. Sheikh Mutlaq Al-Nabit, spokesman for the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Saudi Arabia recently said: “Members of the committee in the markets will order women to [...] Sex Segregation Permissible? As is well known, sex segregation is observed strictly in Saudi Arabia. And so it was with great surprise that security officials at a cafe in Madina saw a group of 9 men and women openly sitting together in contravention of the sex segregation law. But what is more surprising to many people is [...] Fatwa Reinforces Sex Segregation Senior Islamic scholars in Saudi Arabia have issued a controversial fatwa which bars women to work in environments where men and women commingle, reinforcing the stance of sex segregation in the Kingdom. The fatwa stated, “It is not permitted for a Muslim woman to work in a mixed environment with men who are [...] The Ultimatium – Let Us Drive Or We Breastfeed Our Male Foreign Drivers Saudi women have long been disadvantaged in that they need male guardians to do certain things, cannot comingle with members of the opposite sex unless they are related by blood ties, and they can’t drive cars. Now a group of Saudi women had enough [...] Drink Women’s Breast Milk Saudi Arabia is well known for strict enforcement of its sex segregation rule, which prohibits the mixing of genders unless the mixing parties are blood relatives, or have established maternal relations between them. Now 2 Saudi clerics have given advice on how to circumvent the sex segregation rule. And the answer, according to [...] Legal Suit Seeks To Stop Female Teachers From Teaching Boys In a further sign of liberalization, Saudi Arabia, which enforces sex segregation, has allowed female teachers to teach primary school boys in girl schools. But the conservatives are fighting back. Islamic scholar and university lecturer Sheikh Youssef Al-Ahmad has filed a lawsuit to stop the Ministry of [...] Women Support Ban On Gender Mixing Just when it seems that the anti-sex segregation lobby is gaining momentum in Saudi Arabia, along came a group of Saudi women declaring their support for the existing law. What prompted this action, and why did they do it? Open Letter Noor Al-Islam published an open letter on its website. This open letter is [...] Action And Reaction I can still remember some high school physics. There is a law called Newton’s third law of motion. Simply stated, it says: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” For years, Saudi Arabia’s religious police have been strictly enforcing the country’s sex segregation law, which bans co-mingling of sexes outside of [...] Views Misunderstood Sheikh Ahmed bin Qassim al-Ghamidi is feeling the heat. It wasn’t that long ago that he boldly said: “Mixing between the sexes is just natural and there is no good reason to ban it” and ”I still hold to the view I expressed on gender segregation, and I won’t go back on it, and I’ll continue to [...] |
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