Saudi Woman Attacks Muttawa
I found this on AOL News
“People are fed up with these religious police, and now they have to pay the price for the humiliation they put people through for years and years,” she was quoted as saying. “This is just the beginning and there will be more resistance.”
(May 18) — An angry young Saudi Arabian woman has left her mark on a religious policeman who approached her for illegally socializing with an unmarried young man.
According to the Saudi daily Okaz, the woman strongly objected to the policeman’s interference and repeatedly punched him so hard that he ended up in the hospital with bruises to his face and body.
The couple, believed to be in their 20s, were strolling through an amusement park in the city of Al-Mubarraz when the policeman asked them to confirm their relationship to one another.
Hasan Jamali, AP
In Saudi Arabia, women aren’t allowed to drive or to appear in public without a male guardian.
For unknown reasons, the man collapsed while being questioned, and the woman jumped in with fists flying, Okaz reported, according to arabianbusiness.com.
No statement on the incident has so far been made by the religious police – formally titled the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice – or by the regular police, the Arab site and The Jerusalem Post reported.
If the unidentified woman is charged she could face a long prison term, as well as body lashes.
“To see resistance from a woman means a lot,” Wajiha Al-Huwaidar, a Saudi women’s rights activist, told The Media Line News Agency, The Post reported.
“People are fed up with these religious police, and now they have to pay the price for the humiliation they put people through for years and years,” she was quoted as saying. “This is just the beginning and there will be more resistance.”
“The media and the Internet have given people a lot of power and the freedom to express their anger,” she added. Whatever the religious police do ends up all over the Internet, she said, which gives them “a horrible reputation and gives people power to react.”
Under Saudi law, women are not allowed to drive, be seen in public without a male guardian and socialize with unrelated men.
A decision to open the country’s first co-educational university last year was strongly criticized by a senior Saudi cleric, who was then fired by King Abdullah, The Post reported.
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Good for her!
I don’t think that passive resistance is going to do it. I think more women like this need to take a stand and make it much more public.
How can men have such little respect for women – when they have mothers and sisters and wives? What makes any person, of any gender believe that they are better than another?
Doesn’t the Quran state that the devil can hide anywhere – including behind a beard?
For me, it all goes back to Milton’s “I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue”, i.e. if morality is forced upon you, is it morality? Can it be moral if we don’t make the choice to be moral?
I read that! Isn’t it adorable?
Is it true!
She should get a medal!
LLOOOLLL! She was very courageous. I wonder what happened to the man, that he just collapsed? it sounds like she was protecting him as well as herself.
especially behind a beard…
😈
By time!!
Kinano, my wish for you is that you marry a woman with a strong positive spirit, who will be your life-long partner on the journey through this lifetime. 🙂
I’m not a big fan of the black-bearded santas. Excess of anything is a bad thing. In this story, all I can see is excessive force! This is not how we achieve change.
How is the school situation shaping up, Bu Yousef? Are some of the private schools allowed to have mixed classes through high school?