I’m glad that Dr. Rafeia Ghabash, the president of Gulf University in Bahrain, protested against the sexual segregation at a workshop at KAAU on Tuesday. “We respect local traditions but the role of women must be activated and increased because the discussions are about human and social issues of importance to women,” she said. This is exactly why other countries of GCC are better than Saudi Arabia. In other countries, local traditions are respected but they are not sacral. They can be changed and modified to suit the modern world. Traditions are not a part of the religion, and even religion is flexible and can undergo changes.
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thats just pathetic. What would happen if they had a mixed workshop? would people commit zina? Couple days ago, i read on arabnews about that shaikh who condemned a lady cuz she had her head uncovered in the jeddah econ forum. Well if she doesn’t want to, its HER choice… you can’t force a religion on a person. I personally think the whole youth scenario(guys/girls going crazy on the streets) is the repercussion of the ENFORCED veiling of women. And plus whats the point of doing hijab if you are doing it for the government? i do hijab btw here in the US and NO one forces me. This brings back funny memories from jeddah.. a bunch of us girls were walking on the corniche and we were all covered appropiately (no hair visible) but we weren’t covering our faces. Two saudi guys walked by and yelled HEY SEXY and some other random comments! lol We all laughed at their ignorant faces…but the point is do gurls showing their faces ALONE turns on men there?? GOD if thats the case, you guys have a huge psychological issue.
I’m an American Muslim (albeit very secular), and it’s really refreshing to read a blog from a progressive Saudi. I don’t want to offend you, but I think some of the policies of the Saudi regime have really besmirched the name of Islam and Muslims around the world, particlarly backward social customs. I hope that more young Saudis like you will change this in the near future. If you don’t mind, I’m going to link your blog on mine.
sorry ahmed i kind of got a little overboard with my rant. ;/
I agree with Nadia on the psychological issues Saudi men have. Haha. But then again, the United States (for lack of a better example), used to have similar problems not too long ago. Any girl who would even bother to wear pants was a harlot. We, Saudis, are just a little behind on the road to societal equality. I think if we start co-ed institutes in the Saudi Arabia, we will see a lot of horrible things in the begining. Give it a few years or even decades and it will get better. The people just need to be trained to interact with eachother without “offending” eachother with sexual remarks and the like… Sorry if I wrote too much.. but this topic is very dear to my heart. :)
Thank you my friends. You don’t need to apologize for writing too much. The comments part is your space, and you are free to write in it as much as you want.