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Saudi women’s fitness center shut down by adviser to “reformer” Crown Prince over “indecent” workout video

Apr 22, 2018 5:05 pm By Robert Spencer

Reform and moderation are coming to Saudi Arabia! “Extremist” Islam is in retreat! Isn’t it?

“Saudi women fitness centre shut over ‘indecent’ workout video,” AFP, April 21, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Saudi sports authorities shut down a female fitness centre in Riyadh Friday over a contentious promotional video that appeared to show a woman in figure-hugging workout attire.

“We are not going to tolerate this,” Saudi sports authority chief Turki al-Sheikh tweeted as he ordered that the centre’s license be withdrawn.

Sheikh, an adviser to powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also told authorities to investigate and prosecute those behind the video.

The video, which was widely circulated on social media but could not be independently verified by AFP, showed a woman with uncovered hair in what appeared to be a gym and kicking a punching bag. The General Sports Authority said the video contained scenes that could corrupt public morals.

Saud al-Qahtani, a media adviser to the royal court, lauded the sports authority’s swift response, saying on Twitter that the kingdom was on the path of “moderation without moral breakdown.”

Women are required to wear body-shrouding abaya robes and also cover their hair in public in parts of the ultra-conservative kingdom, which has some of the world’s toughest restrictions on women….

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Filed Under: Featured, Saudi Arabia, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Mohammed bin Salman, Turki al-Sheikh


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  1. WESTPAC Spy says

    Apr 22, 2018 at 5:50 pm

    What, no pictures of Saudi chicks in figure-hugging work-out attire?

    I can google more pics than I care to google of Saudi camels in spandex.

    https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uW3MSKo10uM/VK-qXNJWPLI/AAAAAAAApjs/HLNI49TZLpo/s1600/compression-suits-for-camels3-755453.jpg

    A little change of pace would be nice.

    • Linda says

      Apr 23, 2018 at 1:32 am

      Why would anyone ever put a camel in spandex?

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 23, 2018 at 1:44 am

        Linda, you may not have heard of the camel beauty contests (no, this is not a joke):

        “What a camel beauty contest can tell us about the future of Saudi Arabia”

        https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/01/27/what-camel-beauty-contest-can-tell-us-future-saudi-arabia/1071936001/

        • Linda says

          Apr 23, 2018 at 2:29 am

          I am so glad you posted the link to the video because otherwise, I could not have believed it. OMG! Now I’ve seen everything.

        • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

          Apr 23, 2018 at 10:42 pm

          And of course, the botox scandal. Botox is now banned in camel beauty contests.

        • WESTPAC Spy says

          Apr 24, 2018 at 12:21 am

          Oh not you haven’t seen everything, Linda. I’m just not sick enough to show you.

        • Linda says

          Apr 24, 2018 at 1:12 am

          WESTPAC Spy, I get the feeling that just when I think I’ve seen it all, there’s still more around the corner. I will take your word for it.

    • J D S says

      Apr 23, 2018 at 10:57 am

      Anyone found any pics of goats wearing sexy apparel???

      Closing of fitness center..for the reasons they give just shows more stupidity in Islam…….How long world?

    • BC says

      Apr 23, 2018 at 11:56 am

      Bad idea letting those women strengthen their bodies they might get the idea they can hit their husbands back!

    • Save Europe says

      Apr 24, 2018 at 3:11 am

      Olivia Newton-John probably turned up and did her ‘Let’s Get Physical’ routine.

  2. Voytek Gagalka says

    Apr 22, 2018 at 7:02 pm

    No matter what “reform” they have been (and will be) “promised,” at the end of the day there is only this simple “liberum veto” (aka “we are not going to tolerate this”) from any Mohammedan authority to quash it all. “Reforms” attempted – reforms finished! The last “reformer” of the area was Mohammed. End of story. Faster the rain-forest will grow in Arab peninsula than they will be allowed to “reform” themselves.

  3. Eur says

    Apr 22, 2018 at 7:25 pm

    What they do in that evil, Islamic well, I do not care. What is unacceptable is that they have obtained segregated schedules for men and women in municipal swimming pools (in some European cities), that they put up curtains to prevent men from seeing women while they bathe in the pool … What are we playing in the west? We are going back because of these people. On the one hand we educate our children in values of equality, without segregation … and on the other hand we say amen, we submit ourselves to Islamic fascists.

  4. Garfield says

    Apr 22, 2018 at 7:57 pm

    I was really hoping MBS actually wanted reforms. Im starting to think he just wants power and is playing his cards carefully in order to get rid of Iran, which would give him more influence in the region.

    He hates the Iran funded houthis in yemen. If he can get a coalition going to take down Iran…he would like that. The confusing thing is that has Iran funds narco terrorist Hezbollah, and maybe Iran NEEDS to go?

    It looks like he is pushing for a conflict in Syria (which is to say, a conflict with Iran) and maybe these “reforms” are just PR so the U.S. And France will help him take down Iran….which mght be a good thing since Hezbollah/lebanon is so involved in South American drug trafficking now?

  5. gravenimage says

    Apr 22, 2018 at 8:22 pm

    Saudi women’s fitness center shut down by adviser to “reformer” Crown Prince over “indecent” workout video
    ……………………..

    No surprise here. These “reforms” are not even skin deep.

  6. David M says

    Apr 22, 2018 at 9:15 pm

    The WWE is taking one of its pay per views to Saudi Arabia in the next few days, but there won’t be any women’s matches. Vince McMahon sold out in my opinion, he should have told the Saudis it would include the women’s matches or not at all.

    Women are allowed into the audience though, which apparently doesn’t normally happen.

  7. krishna says

    Apr 22, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    there is no complete reformation under suadi regime
    the only solution is overthrow the regime

  8. Linda says

    Apr 23, 2018 at 2:21 am

    If you notice, the men also must wear certain items of clothing and they’re prohibited from wearing things like shorts. They wear the keffiyeh for a head covering and thobe/ghurta with a cloak over it, plus certain sandals. I can see where these and the clothing for women like the burqa or niqab or hijab and abaya might be useful in a sand storm or (with lighter coloured clothing), as protection from the sun. However, mainly it seems as though these people want to keep these styles because they were popular in the 7th century when their prophet was still around. They don’t want to move past the 7th century and they don’t want anyone else to either.

  9. Infidel says

    Apr 23, 2018 at 2:22 am

    This prince is just orchestrating a grand game of Taqiyya,,,, He is just fooling us… All eyewash… I’ve been saying this for long.. can’t trust a single one of them

    • Linda says

      Apr 23, 2018 at 2:55 am

      President Trump seems to like MbS and I read that Richard Branson said he and MbS had become friends, although I don’t know how loosely he was using the term.

      I think Muslims worship a false prophet. If they want to do that, fine, but they should not try to force all the rest of the world to do the same.

      I do think that the Saudi Royal Family has used Wahhabism to keep the people in line, when they don’t even practise it themselves, especially when they’re out of the country of Saudi Arabia.

      I read that MbS wants to bring A.I. to Saudi Arabia. I think I’d be concerned if Saudi Arabia tried to acquire A.I. (I don’t want Saudi robots programmed to wipe out all the infidels. It’s bad enough now with real people like suicide bombers trying to do that.)

      I guess time will tell whether MbS is a man of his word or not.

  10. Expat88 says

    Apr 23, 2018 at 3:53 am

    I lived in Riyadh and they always worried about what was happening with women even segregated behind closed doors. Harassment of beauty parlors, difficulty to even operate a busines like that, no gyms for women, and at that time women could not even attend sporting events..

  11. Hari Singh says

    Apr 23, 2018 at 3:54 am

    Saudi Arabia has one of the most serious problems with obesity, guess working out is not the Shariat solution.

    • Linda says

      Apr 23, 2018 at 9:05 am

      Even MbS looks a little pudgy.

  12. WPM says

    Apr 23, 2018 at 6:44 am

    MbS is only putting up window dressing reform to get gullible Western MSM to faun over them ,they MbS want to keep people of the Western World from seeing the true ugliness of Islam . You can put a pig in a ten thousand dollar dress it is still a pig so is Islam{Sharia law} as practiced as a form of government on the people of MbS. MbS spends billions exporting hate Imams and building Mosques all over the world, they support terrorist organization ,to my knowledge they have not taken in a single Moslem “refugee ” from the “civil war’ raging in Syria .

  13. FYI says

    Apr 23, 2018 at 7:06 am

    Regarding “reformers” in islam remember the following..

    1.Tawriya=intentionally creating a false impression

    2.”We smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them”
    Abu Ad dardai

    3.Taqqiya is allowed until “the day of resurrection”

    A reformer could well be sincere(….or else a Prince of tawriya..)

  14. mortimer says

    Apr 23, 2018 at 8:53 am

    “moderation without moral breakdown.”

    Got it. That means ‘no reform’.

  15. Japetto Danatelli says

    Apr 23, 2018 at 9:02 am

    Why is it that women must bear the blame for all the filth that runs through the minds of muslim men? The onus is always placed on the heads of women, but the men can rape, oppress, and beat women with little or no repercussion. Women are treated only slightly better than us infidels that risk getting our throats cut for not worshiping their demon.

    I’m real sick of seeing Western society bow to these human rights violations. Maybe if these traitors had to experience the brutality and discrimination muslim women do they’d have a little more compassion. And I think that’s part of the problem in all this, these traitors have yet to experience the heartache and pain they facilitate with their “thumbs up” for islam. Maybe if their own daughters were abused like so many muslim women they’d feel differently about it, like acid in the face, beaten, raped, or murdered. It’s easy for these traitors to speak of “diversity” with islam because they have yet to experience first hand the hate and brutality so common wherever islam lives. But those days are about to end, Europe will be the first to see just how diverse muslims can be when they have the upper hand.

    We have a multitude of Nazi-like collaborators providing all the support their profession can offer to help islam, the media, politicians, businesses, and just regular folk, who think it’s somehow good-and-right to welcome these bigoted and murderous practices into our lives. These are not good people, they support bigotry and human rights violations to the point of murder whether they admit it or not. I’m too young to have experienced WWII. But I’ve seen the videos about Nazi collaborators and the fate they suffered for their crimes. And that’s how we need to start seeing our own traitors for islam. And when the time comes I hope they too get what they deserve for aiding and abetting muslims who oppress and murder for religion.

    • Linda says

      Apr 23, 2018 at 9:17 am

      From your lips to God’s ears. The traitors you speak of, are elites who have sold us out to oil-rich Muslim countries.

    • Save Europe says

      Apr 24, 2018 at 3:15 am

      Excellent post, Sir ??

  16. Japetto Danatelli says

    Apr 23, 2018 at 11:08 am

    Just picture for a moment…
    An outraged Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar dressed in extra large jumbo-sized spandex leotards

    lol, I don’t wanna picture that, Jay. I’d rather have my eyes plucked out!

  17. Muslim2018 says

    Apr 23, 2018 at 1:39 pm

    Why are you people so foolish in your thinking? It is not allowed in Islamic law to expose her body why can’t you respect this? This was the way of real Christianity and Judaism before secularism that has destroyed morality in the West.

    Reforms should never mean in the secular manner.

    • Linda says

      Apr 23, 2018 at 1:59 pm

      We don’t feel we have to maintain 7th century fashions to be moral. We have a higher sense of morality encompassed in such ideas as The Golden Rule. Islam doesn’t even have that concept.

    • boakai ngombu says

      Apr 23, 2018 at 6:29 pm

      the black covering promotes morality? more likely, it covers over bruises and cuts from beatings and bashings. it covers over seething hate of a victimized woman who may be also jealous of another wife, or; maybe a raging lust for her husband’s brother smolders under the covering.

      morality is a heart matter … a debased individual has had “heart” removed by senseless restrictions such as SHARIA encouraged dress codes.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 23, 2018 at 6:39 pm

      “Muslim2018” wrote:

      Why are you people so foolish in your thinking? It is not allowed in Islamic law to expose her body why can’t you respect this? This was the way of real Christianity and Judaism before secularism that has destroyed morality in the West.
      ………………………….

      She wasn’t exposing her body–she was just taking part in an exercize video. Note that while “Muslim2018” posits this as respect for others, it is *anything but*–instead, it is the Islamic police forcing this fitness center to shut down.

      And Muslims so often do this–claim that Christian and Jewish women also have to be forcibly immured in Abayas–and were until recently–is utterly false.

      As for morality, this could not be more sick. Muslims like “Muslim2018” condemn workout videos, but have no problems with child marriage and sex slavery.

      More:

      Reforms should never mean in the secular manner.
      ………………………….

      In other words, there must be nothing but greater and greater impositon of the horrors of Islam.

    • Granddaddy says

      Apr 24, 2018 at 1:39 am

      Quran (4:34) – “Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they [men] spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those [women] from whom ye [men] fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and beat them…”

      Quran (2:228) – “and the men are a degree above them [women]”

      Quran (2:223) – “Your wives are as a tilth [field] unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will.”

      Sahih Bukhari (6:301) – “[Muhammad] said, ‘Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?’ They [women] replied in the affirmative. He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her [a woman’s] intelligence.'”

      Sahih Bukhari (62:81) – “The Prophet said: “‘The stipulations most entitled to be abided by are those with which you [men] are given the right to enjoy the (women’s) vagina.'”

      Ishaq 734 – “As for Ali, he said, ‘Women are plentiful, and you can easily change one for another.'”

      Quran 4:24 – Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those (captives and slaves) whom your right hands possess. Thus has Allah ordained for you.

      Is this what you’re talking about?

    • Save Europe says

      Apr 24, 2018 at 3:17 am

      ‘You people’. (?)

      Interesting words.

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