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Saudi religious police arrest woman for going out in public unveiled

Dec 12, 2016 12:38 pm By Robert Spencer

Notice how they’re not arresting, say, jihad terrorists.

This woman has also received multiple death threats.

“Saudi police arrest young woman for removing abaya,” by Sami Aboudi, Independent, December 12, 2016:

Saudi police detained a young woman for violating modesty rules after she removed her abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes women are required to wear, on a main street in the capital Riyadh, local media reported on Monday.

The conservative Muslim country enforces a strict dress code for women in public, bans them from driving and prohibits the mixing of sexes.

The Arabic-language al-Sharq newspaper reported that the woman was detained after a complaint was filed by the religious police.

“Police officers have detained a girl who had removed her abaya on al-Tahliya street, implementing a challenge she announced on social media several days ago,” the newspaper quoted Colonel Fawaz al-Maiman, a Riyadh police spokesman, as saying.

The sabq.org news website said the unnamed woman had posted on Twitter that she would go out in public without her abaya.

Both sabq.org and another news website, alweeam.com.sa, carried a picture of the woman wearing a black jacket over an ankle-length orange and pink dress. Sabq.org concealed the exposed parts of her body….

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Filed Under: Featured, Saudi Arabia, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Fawaz al-Maiman, Riyadh


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  1. eur says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    Our future.

    • Tradiguy says

      Dec 12, 2016 at 1:19 pm

      Let’s hope not!! But I get your point!

    • john spielman says

      Dec 12, 2016 at 5:25 pm

      YUP unless Europeans kick out their present dhimmi governments

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 12:59 pm

    Brave woman.
    The telly-addicted British public will not give her a moment’s concern: they are too busy watching their favourite soaps.

    • Hindu American says

      Dec 12, 2016 at 1:12 pm

      She announced her intentions on social media, well in advance, and then stepped out uncovered and without a male relative. What the heck was she thinking? How smart is that? Does she even have a clue where and what kind of retrograded society she lives in? She probably just gave her relatives a good reason to take revenge on her for the loss of their honor and dignity.

      • Lesley says

        Dec 12, 2016 at 1:58 pm

        Poor woman, she just wanted to feel free for a moment.

      • Don Foss says

        Dec 13, 2016 at 10:40 am

        You call it foolish. I call it courageous and a revolutionary act that can spark change. She posted it on SM so the world will know, as we do now. No matter what happens to her she should be considered a heroine for all women in KSA – every single one of them having their hunman rights violated and every one of them being oppressed – besides women in the rest of Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, large pockets of Nigeria and Indonesia, et al. We should hope that she sparks a movement for the future of these brutally backwards countries to at least dip a toe into modern civilation.

    • Tradiguy says

      Dec 12, 2016 at 1:48 pm

      Very true- and reading their left wing newspapers!

  3. Tradiguy says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 1:15 pm

    Or the mixing of the sexes- well as we all know these savages can’t control themselves so I suppose it’s better to separate them! On the girl removing her abaya, she knows the rules and the punishments for breaking them. Why anyone would want to live under the oppression of Islam beats me but when you have never known true freedom I guess you can live in your ignorance which is pretty much what Islam is- please don’t emigrate dear- stay there and fight for your freedom instead of coming here and trying to take ours away!!

  4. miriamrove says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 1:28 pm

    We all new she was walking target. M

  5. Angemon says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    Notice how they’re not arresting, say, jihad terrorists.

    Why would they when they can pay them to go jihadi elsewhere?

    • miriamrove says

      Dec 12, 2016 at 2:11 pm

      She actually committed an act of jihad as well. But this kind if Jihad does not sit well with them. m

  6. vladkoval says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 2:19 pm

    Make no mistake – hijab is BULLSHIT!
    Egyptian Journalist: 99% of Egyptian Whores Wear Hijab – not sign of modesty

  7. Charles says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 2:27 pm

    The Saudi’s are totally insane! The whole Desert is in the grip of Satan!

    • eur says

      Dec 12, 2016 at 2:57 pm

      And the moroccans and the argelians and…

  8. DRHazard says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 4:09 pm

    It was reported that 20% of Hillary’s campaign was Saudi funded. What were they expecting in return? Well, at the very least, total silence on their dismal human rights record. Hillay does NOT care about this woman’s brave act. Plus completely overlooking their contributions to the funding of Salafist terrorist organizations, their non-acceptance of Syrian refugees, the construction of anti Western Mosques all over the world, and generally destabilizing influence in the Middle East. Her loss is just more proof that Allah has no power or can influence human behavior at all. Islam is the bulldozer that crushes freedom and replaces if with an endless code of rules and punishments.

    • no_one says

      Dec 13, 2016 at 12:28 am

      Hillary has not lost yet. They are still fighting. A plenty of time until Jan 20 and may be beyond.

      • Don Foss says

        Dec 13, 2016 at 10:44 am

        You mean they are shadow boxing.

  9. Henrik from Norway says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 4:39 pm

    Boycott Psycho Saudi Theocracy!!

  10. Yesenia says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    Proud of this woman she is my hero..

  11. gravenimage says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    Saudi religious police arrest woman for going out in public unveiled
    …………………

    I’d been worried about what was going to happen to this lady.

  12. The Mayor says

    Dec 13, 2016 at 2:47 am

    Yeah, baby, the 7th century rocked!!

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