Telegraph: Ha ha. It’s a good gag by whoever’s come up with it – a room full of Saudi Arabian men supposedly coming together to talk about ‘women in society’. Without any women present.
No wonder the picture’s currently doing the rounds on Twitter – both men and women are laughing at the absurdity and hypocrisy of it.
And yet, is it really that absurd? We don’t actually know if the photo is real. But this is a country where women are not allowed to drive, women cannot vote or be elected to high political positions – oh, and stoning them to death if they try to leave their husbands is still OK.
It’s not too hard to make the leap, then, that Saudi Arabia would seriously, actually, run a conference about ‘what to do with all these women’ – those who are rising up, who are starting to disobey the ‘norms’. Post the Arab springand this ‘new world’ of politics – it’s possible women may want a change in culture in the Middle East. And the men don’t like it.
Categories: Asia
Funny. This reminds of a meeting in Pakistan where we had a National Breastfeeding promotion Committee and it consisted of all males.
“But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow in the back of a date-stone.” (Al Qur’an 4:125)
stoning them to death if they try to leave their husbands is still OK.
this information is not correct they stoning the men or women to death if they Weight while they are already married this is an islamic rule to protect the socity from having any realation between men and women witout marriage not because she want to leave the husband