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Originally Posted by habernac
http://travel.sympatico.msn.ca/Study...etect=&abc=abc
in a society where woman can't drive and must seek permission to do pretty much everything, they are looking to restrict their actions even more. Saudi Arabia continues to be a bad joke. The only reason they're tolerated on the world stage is because of their oil reserves.
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I guess it's safe to assume that you hold the Catholic Church in similar disdain for their refusal to allow women to be priests.
I'd also say that you didn't even come closer to providing an accurate synopis of the article. Quotes such as these clearly show that it is not a position, if it is even implemented, that is widely supported:
Many Saudis say the proposal, released two weeks ago in the form of a study, violates the spirit of Islam.
"The prophet, who is the first leader of Muslims, didn't do it," said Mohsen al-Awajy, an Islamist lawyer and cleric. "Those who are proposing the change after him have to come up with legal justification for it."
"I'm sure the proposal won't be implemented because this is a matter that's of concern to all the Islamic world and not only Saudi Arabia," said al-Fassi.
The plan has started causing ripples outside the kingdom.
The Washington-based Muslimah Writers Alliance, an organization of Muslim women writers, is sponsoring an online petition drive against the study.
"At no other time in history, either before or after the time of the Prophet Muhammad, have women been relegated to lesser advantageous positions within the (mosque)," Aishah Schwartz, the group's director, said in a statement.
"The proposed plan is no more acceptable today than it would have been when the teachings of Islam began to be delivered over 1400 years ago," she added.
And finally, considering that dozens of people are killed annually in the crush of humanity during the Hajh, an unbiased person may not be so quick to portray it the way you have chosen.