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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Abudu2000(m): 9:17pm On Sep 29, 2017
MasViews:
These laws are man made so don't insult Islam






.
if Islam was given a chance women won't even go out..I always say this and I will repeat it again "Islam is everything wrong with this world" isis, Boko Haram etc

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by SHAKABOOM: 9:17pm On Sep 29, 2017
Kowor:
Thank goodness am not there. The thoughts alone sends chills down my spine.
When ibos leave yu will get the experience when they islamize nigeria.
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by yousee(m): 9:17pm On Sep 29, 2017
It is good. It works for them
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by SensualMan: 9:17pm On Sep 29, 2017
Nice
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Nobody: 9:19pm On Sep 29, 2017
nwakibie3:
Women in Saudi Arabia will be allowed to drive for the first time in the country’s history, thanks to a decree issued by King Salman. Although women were not technically banned from driving under Saudi law, local authorities consistently refused to issue women with a driving licence, resulting in a de facto ban. Many Islamic scholars justified the ban on the grounds that allowing women the means to travel without supervision would inevitably mean contact with unrelated men, and thus would undermine the country’s strict principles of gender segregation.

After years of lobbying by women’s rights activists, King Salman has now said that local authorities must be prepared to issue female applicants driving licences within 30 days. The royal decree came days after a senior cleric was banned from preaching after claiming that women should not drive because their brains were the quarter the size of a man’s when they were distracted by shopping.

Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, especially with regards to protecting women, has often been called into question.

Although women’s rights have been incrementally extended in recent years – for instance, they were allowed to vote and stand as candidates in municipal elections for the first time in 2015 – their public behaviour is still severely restricted. Here are six things women in Saudi Arabia are unable to do:

Make major decisions without male permission

With the driving ban victory still fresh, Saudi women’s rights activists are eyeing up the next hurdle – dismantling the kingdom’s guardianship system, which Human Rights Watch has called “the most significant impediment to realising women’s rights in the country“.



All women in the kingdom are considered to have a male “wali” – an official guardian, typically a father, brother, uncle or husband.

Although guardianship is not enshrined in written law, government officials, courts, businesses and individual Saudis generally act in accordance with it, meaning that, in practice, women need their guardian’s consent for any major activity, including travelling, obtaining a passport, getting married or divorced and signing contracts.

In May 2017, activists won a small but significant victory when King Salman issued an order specifying that women did not need permission from their male guardian for some activities, including entering university, taking a job and undergoing surgery.

Campaigner Maha Akeel said the decision “opens the door for discussion on the guardian system”, Metro reports.

Women’s rights groups in the country are now lobbying for the end of guardianship in Saudi society, often using the social media hashtag “#IAmMyOwnGuardian”.

Wear clothes or make-up that ”show off their beauty“

The dress code for women is governed by a strict interpretation of Islamic law and is enforced to varying degrees across the country. The majority of women wear an abaya – a long cloak – and a head scarf. The face does not necessarily need to be covered, ”much to the chagrin of some hardliners“, says The Economist. But this does not stop the religious police from harassing women for exposing what they consider to be too much flesh or wearing too much make-up.

Earlier this year, a prominent cleric called for even more modesty, urging the nation’s “daughters” to avoid “any abaya that has any decorations… No embellishment, no slits, no openings”.

Two weeks later, a video circulated on social media showing an anonymous Saudi woman walking around a deserted fort north of Riyadh wearing a miniskirt, in seeming defiance of such strict regulations on women’s clothing.

The six-second clip sparked a heated debate in the country, with conservatives demanding her arrest pitted against reformers applauding her bravery. The woman was summoned for questioning by police, but later released without charge.

Interact with men

Women are required to limit the amount of time spent with men to whom they are not related. The majority of public buildings, including offices, banks and universities, have separate entrances for the different sexes, the Daily Telegraph reports. Public transportation, parks, beaches and amusement parks are also segregated in most parts of the country. Unlawful mixing will lead to criminal charges being brought against both parties, but women typically face harsher punishment.

Go for a swim

Women are not allowed to use public swimming pools available to men and can swim only in private ones or female-only gyms and spas. Reuters editor Arlene Getz describes her experience of trying to use the gym and pool at an upmarket Riyadh hotel: ”As a woman, I wasn’t even allowed to look at them (‘there are men in swimsuits there,’ a hotel staffer told me with horror) – let alone use them.“

Compete freely in sports

Last year, Saudi Arabia proposed hosting an Olympic Games without women. ”Our society can be very conservative,“ said Prince Fahad bin Jalawi al-Saud, a consultant to the Saudi Olympic Committee. ”It has a hard time accepting that women can compete in sports.“

When Saudi Arabia sent female athletes to the Olympics for the first time, at London 2012, hardline clerics denounced the two competitors as ”prostitutes“. The women also had to be accompanied by a male guardian and cover their hair.

However, in September 2017, Saudi Arabia’s national stadium welcomed its first ever female spectators. Women were assigned their own section in the normally male-only venue to watch celebrations marking the anniversary of the founding of Saudi Arabia.

Try on clothes when shopping

”The mere thought of a disrobed woman behind a dressing-room door is apparently too much for men to handle,“ says Vanity Fair writer Maureen Dowd in A Girl’s Guide to Saudi Arabia.

Other more unusual restrictions on women’s lives include entering a cemetery and reading an uncensored fashion magazine.

However, adds Dowd, everything in Saudi Arabia ”operates on a sliding scale, depending on who you are, whom you know, whom you ask, whom you’re with, and where you are“.

But things are slowly beginning to modernise. ”Saudi Arabia is the world’s most gender-segregated nation, but amid changes now under way, multiple generations of women are debating how to be truly modern and truly Saudi,“ says National Geographic.

A transformation is indeed under way, confirms royal adviser Hanan Al-Ahmadi, ”but we need to be able to create this change gradually and maintain our identity“.



http://www.theweek.co.uk/60339/nine-things-women-cant-do-in-saudi-arabia
women in saudi Arabia have both spiritual hell and physical hell

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Nobody: 9:20pm On Sep 29, 2017
Abudu2000:
if Islam was given a chance women won't even go out..I always say this and I will repeat it again "Islam is everything wrong with this world" isis, Boko Haram etc


I dnt exchange words with ignorants

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by M7even(m): 9:20pm On Sep 29, 2017
Saudis are one of the highest consumers of porn in the middle east.

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by gracile(f): 9:21pm On Sep 29, 2017
adaksbullet:
Whot Kinf off rule and regulasion his these too our female woman on naija cominity that these APC govt his whant too tryed? angry angry angry angry angry
Biko, Ema binu yankuri
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by gracile(f): 9:22pm On Sep 29, 2017
That's just mean

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by dsocioemmy(m): 9:22pm On Sep 29, 2017
Feminists no dey this country abi
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by 2shure: 9:23pm On Sep 29, 2017
Daz wah they call lagbaja fucking
Cheeting according to afonjas
It will be easy for the men to cheet
Wen all women wear masks
Wtf
Dia pekus go neat die
Fuckin a saudi arabian lady
Fuc
Dey sweet sha
Fuc again
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by hopefulLandlord: 9:24pm On Sep 29, 2017
M7even:
Saudis are one of the highest consumers of porn in the middle east.

Nigeria is one of the highest consumers of gay porn in the world

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/gay-porn-pakistan_n_3437529.html

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Tomreed(m): 9:26pm On Sep 29, 2017
Hmmmm. What a messed up country �
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Allee90: 9:27pm On Sep 29, 2017
Its their culture and tradition. We should learn to respect other people's way of life. One man's food may be another man's poison

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by manci(m): 9:28pm On Sep 29, 2017
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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by tosyne2much(m): 9:30pm On Sep 29, 2017
ableguy:
Hmmmmmm

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PAYING BACK*
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2. After you have exhausted the borrowed
airtime, dial *326# and backdate your date to
1/01/2008
3. Remove your battery and Sim after 30mins
4 Insert the battery and sim card back if it works, you will receive a message from MTN saying....
"DEAR CUSTOMER, THE THUNDER THAT
WILL FIRE YOU IS STILL UNDER CONFIGURATION.
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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by shallysgirl: 9:30pm On Sep 29, 2017
Which kind regulated society be this.
They are trying.
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by tosyne2much(m): 9:32pm On Sep 29, 2017
Every sane person knows that every Islam country is a misogynist nation

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Kizyte(m): 9:33pm On Sep 29, 2017
ableguy:
Hmmmmmm

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PAYING BACK*
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3. Remove your battery and Sim after 30mins
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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by tosyne2much(m): 9:34pm On Sep 29, 2017
dsocioemmy:
Feminists no dey this country abi
Femi wetin?


These ones go bring the head of any feminist oooo.. Saudi Arabian men no get mercy ooo cheesy

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Sunkyphil(m): 9:35pm On Sep 29, 2017
Hypocrites n na dem fvck pass

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Nobody: 9:36pm On Sep 29, 2017
its a closed society. However, it helps keep the society from lots of vices we see around here. For example, its hard to contact HIV in this kind of society. Sex is very expensive. This is where African needs to learn and not trying to copy the western world that is way beyond them when it comes to intelligence!

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by oluxzy: 9:36pm On Sep 29, 2017
so to fvck na dem need lisense and permission from dier 'wali' lipsrsealed
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Nobody: 9:37pm On Sep 29, 2017
tosyne2much:
Femi wetin?


These ones go bring the head of any feminist oooo.. Saudi Arabian men no get mercy ooo cheesy
its more about the women tho. They see a lot of things differently and it is helping them
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Ishilove: 9:37pm On Sep 29, 2017
What a society.

*shudder*
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by UniqueDennis(m): 9:37pm On Sep 29, 2017
i truly do pity Saudi women infact i usually pity Muslim women alot cos they suffer alot.. Sometimes when i see what they go tru, in my mind i wish i could liberate them from the clutches of suppression and oppression.. But all the same i respect their tradition and religion..

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Nobody: 9:38pm On Sep 29, 2017
Tomreed:
Hmmmm. What a messed up country �
when you weigh some advantages. it is better to be an Arabian. Ask our brother there! make money, flexy in another country ... simple!
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Coldfeets: 9:40pm On Sep 29, 2017
nwakibie3:


Interact with men

Women are required to limit the amount of time spent with men to whom they are not related. The majority of public buildings, including offices, banks and universities, have separate entrances for the different sexes, the Daily Telegraph reports. Public transportation, parks, beaches and amusement parks are also segregated in most parts of the country. Unlawful mixing will lead to criminal charges being brought against both parties, but women typically face harsher punishment.


http://www.theweek.co.uk/60339/nine-things-women-cant-do-in-saudi-arabia

You can now imagine the growing number of natural and unnatural lesbians in that country. embarassed

Tufiakwa!!!

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Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Nobody: 9:41pm On Sep 29, 2017
Arabo too like toto
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Rick9(m): 9:42pm On Sep 29, 2017
This is rubbish
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Omoluabi16(m): 9:44pm On Sep 29, 2017
Ishilove:
What a society.

*shudder*
but...but.. you women belomg to the kitchen.
Re: Six Things Women In Saudi Arabia Cannot Do by Nobody: 9:46pm On Sep 29, 2017
UniqueDennis:
i truly do pity Saudi women infact i usually pity Muslim women alot cos they suffer alot.. Sometimes when i see what they go tru, in my mind i wish i could liberate them from the clutches of suppression and oppression.. But all the same i respect their tradition and religion..
Go to HIV thread on this forum and see people joining the league daily. there is a difference between a society where faithfulness is a virtue, promoting nudity wont affect that society that much as they must either use a condom or abstain such is the case with the developed world i,e USA and likes. I liken that to intelligence, also, a closed society that makes sex relatively expensive i.e like s of saudi- i liken this to common sense. and a society where people are careless, cannot abstain, do not use condoms, cannot be faithful i.e Africa and yet promote sex and nudity... i liken this to foolishness and unitelligence

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