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21st century, here we come! Hopefully by, oh, the year 2400. "Women Can Now Stay in Hotels Without Male Guardians, Saudi Officials Say," from the Associated Press:
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Women in Saudi Arabia can now stay in a hotel or a furnished apartment without a male guardian according to decision by the Ministry of Trade, reported the local press Monday.
The daily Al-Watan, which is deemed close to the Saudi government, said the ministry issued a circular to the hotels asking them to accept women in their rooms even if they were alone provided that all their information immediately be [reported] to a police station in the area.
The decision was adopted after a study conducted by the Interior Ministry, the Supreme Commission of Tourism and the religious police authority known as the Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
Saudi women, under strict Islamic law, suffer severe restrictions on daily life as they are not allowed to be anywhere with an unrelated man, cannot drive, appear before a judge without a male representative, or travel abroad without a male guardian's permission.
The paper interviewed some Saudi women who complained that they had been severely inconvenienced by the rules banning them from staying in the hotels alone.
It quoted a woman identified as saying that she once arrived late at night at King Fahd airport on an internal flight and was denied a hotel room because she was alone.
Another woman, Fatima Ibrahim, said her son-in-law quarreled with his wife and daughters and threw them out of the house. When they tried to get a hotel room, they were asked to get a permission from the police.
Posted by Marisol at January 21, 2008 2:41 PM
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..they can stay in, but they can't go out...
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at January 21, 2008 2:47 PM
Slow down, Marisol!!! All this is too much progress to absorb in 1 day. First the women drivers, next this - soon they'll be allowing women to choose their own husbands (gasp!!!)
Posted by: Infidel Pride at January 21, 2008 3:14 PM
Liberate womankind --- abolish Islam.
Posted by: US_infidel at January 21, 2008 3:19 PM
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at January 21, 2008 4:37 PM
Oh If I were woman in SA I would really want the police to know I was alone in a hotel, I would hope they pass the info along to the mutaween.They could visit me in 3s
Posted by: GrennBeck at January 21, 2008 5:11 PM
Unashamed Eurocentrism. Shame on you.
'Human rights' is an imperialist colonialist oppressionist Zionist white-supremacist constructivist construct.
Shame on you.
Posted by: Dane at January 21, 2008 5:48 PM
"The daily Al-Watan, which is deemed close to the Saudi government, said the ministry issued a circular to the hotels asking them to accept women in their rooms even if they were alone provided that all their information immediately be [reported] to a police station in the area."
Sounds like easy pickin's to me. Women alone in a Saudi hotel room with big brother watching. How convenient that the Q'uran says you have to have four witnesses, Muslim males of good standing, to prove rape. Uh-huh. Maybe the thought police are going through a slow period. Like traffic cops who start getting tough and writing bogus citations around here, maybe over there those people are bored silly and want to shake things up by inviting women to stay alone, letting the police know which rooms they stay in, a little cash under the table to the night clerk and presto! A room key and a free lay. And then when the woman complains about it, the cowardly horn dog can denounce her and if she's married, another round of stonings will ensue.
Girls, don't fall for this. Renounce Islam once and for all, move to the free world and get yourselves a life.
Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at January 21, 2008 5:52 PM
That's big of them.
Posted by: DaveMate at January 21, 2008 5:54 PM
I read Ayaan Hirsi Ali's excellent book, "Infidel", last year.
At one point when she was a child, her parents moved from Somalia to Saudi Arabia--partly to escape increasing violence in their own country, partly so her father might find work, and partly out of increased religious ferver--they felt living in Mecca brought them closer to Islam.
Well, Hirsi Ali's parents had always had a volitile relationship, not to mention the fact that her father had two other families, all living in different countries. Eventually, he picked up and took off, leaving Hirsi Ali's mother and siblings alone in Saudi Arabia.
Her mother's husband was gone, all her male relatives were in Somalia and Kenya. What to do?
There follow scenes which are both comic and profoundly depressing, where Hirsi Ali's proud mother has to drag her ten-year-old son around with her as her "male guardian" while she goes shopping or runs errands, glaring at anyone who would question the propriety of the situation. The little boy, of course, resented the ridiculous situation, and just wanted to be out playing with his friends.
at January 22, 2008 12:15 AM
You'd think Saudi Arabia would join the rest of modernity in the 21st century and use electronic anklettes to automate this process.
Sheeeeeeeesh!
Posted by: Shy Guy at January 22, 2008 5:51 AM
"Women in Saudi Arabia can now stay in hotels alone,..."
...that is the way they prefer it....
at January 22, 2008 5:03 PM
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