Religion of Misogyny: Saudi Arabia tracks wives’ movements, reports to husbands
**Posted by Phineas
Equality in slavery
But don’t you dare say Islam doesn’t respect women:
As of last week, Saudi women’s male guardians began receiving text messages on their phones informing them when women under their custody leave the country, even if they are travelling together.
Saudi women’s rights activist Manal al-Sherif, who last year urged women to defy a driving ban, said a man had contacted her to say he had received a text from the immigration authorities while at the airport with his wife.
“The authorities are using technology to monitor women,” said Saudi author and journalist Badriya al-Bishr, who criticised the “state of slavery under which women are held” in the kingdom.
“This is technology used to serve backwardness in order to keep women imprisoned,” she added.
Under laws influenced by the strict Wahabi interpretation of Islam, women are not allowed to leave Saudi Arabia without permission from their male guardian (a husband, father or brother), who must give consent by signing what is known as the “yellow sheet” at the airport or border.
The article mentions the mockery this new rule has received from women and some men, but it’s supported by the Wahabi religious establishment, which is a lynchpin of the monarchy, so that makes it the law.
What’s next? A fatwa mandating electric shock collars for disobedient wives?
RELATED: More on the wonderful state of women under Sharia.
via The Jawa Report
(Crossposted at Public Secrets)
Categories: Islam, Saudi Arabia, Sharia Law, Women under Sharia
What do you expect from a country that is also the homeland of all but three of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers? The attire worn by the women pictured is commonly referred to as “cloth coffins”.
by Drew the Infidel on Nov 27, 2012 at 4:38 pm
naah…those Islamist husbands prefer a hands-on approach to discipline.
by Nate on Nov 27, 2012 at 8:24 pm
I’m sure this is news that “The View” people and PMSNDC will be all over. And the feminazis. They are such strident voices, all of them, for women’s rights all over the world, wherever injustice occurs and no matter the religion.
by Carlos on Nov 28, 2012 at 11:15 pm
this is being brought to the united sates by politicans supported by the National Organization of Women because they care about women’s rights.
by tommy mc donnell on Nov 30, 2012 at 6:11 am