American Thinker:In what looks like the next shoe to drop, or abaya, as the case may be, a top Saudi cleric has announced that an abaya, or black headcovering [Correction: overgarment] is no longer neccessary attire for Saudi Arabian women.
According to Reuters:
Saudi women need not wear the abaya – the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of religious faith – a senior member of the top Muslim clerical body said, another indication of the Kingdom’s efforts towards modernisation.
On his television programme, Sheikh Abdullah al-Mutlaq, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars, said Muslim women should dress modestly, but this did not necessitate wearing the abaya.
“More than 90 per cent of pious Muslim women in the Muslim world do not wear abayas,” Sheikh Mutlaq said on Friday (Feb 9). “So we should not force people to wear abayas.”
It’s not a law yet, but it’s obviously a signal to the current youthful and reform-minded ruler of Saudi Arabia, King Mohammed bin Salman, that if he wants to get rid of the law, the cleric isn’t going to object. read more
Encouraging. Although I’ll believe it when I see it.
He only came to that conclusion cuz he wants to get laid…
Indeed, in that intense rivalry between Iran and Saudia, KSA is often one step ahead.
It’s also interesting to note that in some respects, KSA is ahead of the US. For example, why was it so difficult for the DMV in any state to achieve (if it has been achieved) a law or even regulation against covering the face in a driver’s license photo? This has been unthought of in KSA on passport photos since long before 9/11, for reasons of common sense.
And now, when KSA is thinking of scrapping the requirement to wear abayyah, various people, shops and groups in the US are trying to normalize hijab, even in some cases get people in trouble for refusing to wear it or even for insulting it (this last part being a total Third World technique). It’s not a stretch to wonder if niqab – which was such a problem in the UK at one point, to such an extent that a politician faced backlash simply for stating a reality, that it makes communication difficult, given the need for being able to see facial cues – or full abayyah will be the next steps.
I want to tell the advocates for it that while some women do, as they claim, wear hijab by their own choice, this doesn’t change the reality that it is a tool of oppression used to keep women down, and that’s not even taking into consideration how some use it as a political statement and has nothing to do with modesty at all.
For the sake of clarity, when I say “unthought of in KSA” I mean it was absolutely not allowed. Niqabis making a passport photo **must** uncover their faces.
Maybe they don’t wanna become a glass parking lot.
I hope this pisses off a lot of the goat phuckers . 3 thumbs up!
Never trust saudi.
American feminists are conflicted over this, I’m sure.
Just because the Saudis will soon get rid of wearing the abyya, or full body sack, the women will still have to wear the head scarf. Which is a step in the right direction.
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It was a stupid “habit” anyway.