No man’s land: Women-only city planned for Saudi Arabia

RT:

Saudi Arabia is to build a new city exclusively for women. The Gulf kingdom is working on the narrow junction between strict Sharia law and the aspirations of active females who wish to pursue their own careers.

The new plan is to combine women’s desire to work in the modern age and provide a job environment that would go hand-in-hand with the country’s Sharia law. The Saudi Industrial Property Authority (Modon) has been charged to lead the country into a new era.

The ambitious mono-city is now being designed with construction to begin next year. The municipality in the Eastern city of Hafuf is expected to attract 500 million riyals (US$133 million) in investments and it will create around 5,000 jobs in the textiles, pharmaceuticals and food processing industries. There will be women-run firms and production lines for women.

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  1. Firstly ( I think, people may differ with my view) it is impossible. Secondly this is un-natural. Allah did not ask humans to do this.
    Woman and men are compulsory to live together. She definitely needs father, brother or son. If not a husband.
    Men’s presence is always necessary. to build it. To maintain the infra structure. For the burial etc.

    Let’s see what happens. It is only a unique idea. Just for the sake of thrill , fame or money. In my view , useless.

  2. The headline may be misleading. As I understand the article this ‘women-only city’ actually refers only to work places. In the evening the ladies will go home to their homes, including husbands and sons.

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