• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Saudi Arabia develops app to stop women from traveling without permission from male guardians

Feb 6, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

This is not “extremism.” It’s basic, mainstream Sharia: “The husband may forbid his wife to leave the home…because of the hadith related by Bayhaqi that the Prophet…said, ‘It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to allow someone into her husband’s house if he is opposed, or to go out of it if he is averse” (Reliance of the Traveller m10.4).

“Saudi Arabia Makes App to Stop Women from Traveling Without Consent,” by Zakaria Oudrhiri, Morocco World News, February 5, 2019:

Rabat – The Saudi National Information Center has developed a mobile application called “Absher” (Arabic for “Enjoy”) that allows male guardians, usually husbands and fathers, to monitor women’s movements.

The app, available on iOS and Android, is designed to help guardians with tasks like renewing a driver’s license or paying fines, but also to monitor women and stop them from leaving the country without their consent.

The app sends a notification when a woman presents her passport at border control. Border police will deny the woman travel if her guardian says so….

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: Featured, Saudi Arabia, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Saudi National Information Center


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. Terry Gain says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 9:07 am

    The APP is available to all who wish to continue misinterpreting the Noble Koran.

    • Westman says

      Feb 6, 2019 at 9:57 am

      Bu, b, but didn’t two “religious” men, one who avoids marriage and one who considers women to be possessed objects, just unite in saying that ideas like “men are superior to women” , “kill them where you find them”, and ‘Allah’s Punishment(sadistic torture) ” are but misinterpretations of the Quran and the Religion Of Threats is but a white dove, glistening in the sunlight? Surely this will cause the woman-controlling App to be banned from the home of Mecca?

      More likely, what we observed in Egypt was the religious world equivalent of Chamberlain’s 1938 visit to the German Chancellor. Pope Francis seems to be turning the Catholic Church into a weak version of Unitarian Universalism.

      • Barbara RENTON says

        Feb 7, 2019 at 11:17 am

        You’re quite right, Westman. I think ALL intelligent women should leave arab nation-states to leave them in their own perverted/backwards misery.

  2. somehistory says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 9:15 am

    Complete control. Of women, of all who are not in the moslim hierarchy with the power “granted them by satan, the original serpent.”

    It is the goal of islam to put that kind of control on every person living anywhere in the world. To the point of having to get moslim’s permission to “buy and sell,” or meet the sword.

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 9:19 am

    Women in Saudi Arabia will eventually be forced to wear GPS bracelets to track them.

    Mohammed’s last sermon refers to women as ‘PRISONERS’ of men or their ‘DOMESTIC ANIMALS’. Then are Saudi women going to tell the regime that they won’t take that anymore?

    Women own 60% of the wealth in KSA and have 60% of the university degrees. I foresee a revolution soon.

    • keith Oades says

      Feb 6, 2019 at 4:10 pm

      Hey, don’t knock the GPS tracker, works great with the kids! hahaha.
      A vile primitive bunch of control freaks.
      If this is how they “love” their women? Then bring on the revolution in KSA!

  4. myint shwe says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 9:29 am

    This has been created in the aftermath of a Saudi Girl fled to Thailand and took asylum in Canada. She siad she also renouncd Islam.

  5. Raja says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 9:37 am

    This is how Islamic nations steal away your liberties, enslave you by hook or crook and destroy you. That is the devil’s will for man even as the very essence of meaning of life is abrogated by Islam and all allied fascists.

    The obnoxious sharia is being supported by all evil forces including machines in the form of APP.

    I guess the entire Islamic world looks up to Saudi Arabia for leadership. What a shame…

  6. Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 9:51 am

    What they really need is an app to watch muslim men, they are the ones doing all the raping of kids and women. Our kids and women could have such an app on their smart phone that beeps wildly when it detects a muslim male who is having a “sexual emergency” and needs to rape a kid, or perhaps one that is culturally ignorant and doesn’t know that sexually assaulting a woman in a subway or pool is a criminal offense. Muslim women should be allowed to do what American women do when they want to escape a domineering spouse, get a good lawyer and a restraining order. And our kids should be allowed to carry a penis snipper they can use when attacked. In fact, considering the number of muslim rapes in western nations, I’m wondering if we shouldn’t have a muslim penis registry with photographs and measurements. Okay, I’m talking facetious. But let’s admit it, islam can be insanely funny, albeit in a cruel and bloody sort of way.

    • Tom says

      Feb 6, 2019 at 11:43 am

      You may be on to something. Perhaps an implanted chip in all Muslim males who migrate to the west. That way the government can track them and we can be made aware if there is one in the immediate area that may be a problem if the government can manipulate the chip to send out a warning to all smart phones within a 500 meter range if the male has shown a tendancy to become emergent in his sexual desires recently.

      Nah that would blow too many left wing minds and blood vessels. Forget I suggested it. It’s too much like controlling their women in Saudi.

      • Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

        Feb 6, 2019 at 12:23 pm

        Perhaps an implanted chip in all Muslim males who migrate to the west.

        Actually, that’s not a bad idea. I was only joking, but you’re closer to sound reality. Personally I would like to see certain muslims chipped, like known sex offenders, and those that have been convicted of violent offenses, or imams that have been convicted of teaching terror, to name a few. Offer them a deal, get a slightly reduced sentence and wear a chip that allows for tracking, or throw the book at them. Or even better still, offer them a chance to leave the country for good if the offense isn’t too terribly bad. Considering how society is moving toward chipping non-criminals for employment or medical, it seems even more reasonable for criminal muslims. I doubt it would ever work, there’d have to be a whole new techno-bureaucracy created to deal with it all. Too expensive and would be fraught with problems, I’m sure. But looked at superficially, not a bad idea.

        • Tom says

          Feb 6, 2019 at 12:52 pm

          My suggestion was, of course, made tongue in cheek. It does however highlite the absurdity of the control of women which is the topic of the news article.

        • smoris says

          Feb 7, 2019 at 7:10 pm

          Well, maybe there will be a new wrinkle in the genital mutilation regimen – chipping them at age 6 or whenever, so they will always be controlled. I honestly think that is next with these animals. And yes – I said animals with no apology.

  7. Terry Gain says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 11:13 am

    Now that we know that all of this Muslim terrorism is caused by misinterpretations of the Noble Koran, I am looking forward to a new revised edition of the Koran that alerts the reader to possible misinterpretations.

    “Editor’s Note – kill in this Sura does not really mean kill. It means shake hands.”

  8. Tom says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 11:34 am

    Now what a great idea to keep control of ones possessions.

    So this confirms that women in Islam are merely considered to be cattle or camels which need to be kept in pens, in this case an electronic pen, and only allowed out to roam under very strict conditions.

    The enlightenment for these women must just be overwhelming and their gratitude volumous for the love that is being shown them by their owners. Why they even keep them bagged to maintain their freshness.

    Slavery in ANY form is unacceptable in an enlightened and civilized world.

  9. henrietta says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 11:38 am

    kill means shake hands, give me a break; what a pile of the brown stuff. all of the fantasy islam books are so ludicrous. NONE of them have an iota of common sense, compassion, or any positive comments about humanity. poor mo must have really been on some good stuff to come up with all this crap.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 9, 2019 at 1:08 am

      Henrietta, Terry is being sarcastic.

  10. RodSerling says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 11:54 am

    “The app, available on iOS and Android”

    Question for the tech-savvy here: If Apple and Google knew (and it seems almost certain they do) about what the Saudis were doing with this app wouldn’t they be able to stop them?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 9, 2019 at 1:09 am

      Important point, Rod. More disgusting enabling of Islam from tech dhimmis.

  11. Dave Catleugh says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 1:34 pm

    Shouldn’t those ladies be wearing gloves. Their naked hands might get somebody aroused

  12. Renate says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 1:35 pm

    These women will be held hostage by technological advancement.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 9, 2019 at 1:10 am

      They are being held hostage by Islam.

  13. thebigW says

    Feb 6, 2019 at 2:10 pm

    “This is not “extremism.” It’s basic, mainstream Sharia” I agree with Robert Spencer. But in a recent story here on Feb 4,

    “Meghan Markle’s friend Loujain al-Hathloul “has been jailed and tortured in Saudi Arabia for fighting for women’s rights.”
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/meghan-markles-friend-is-being-tortured-in-saudi-prison-for-fighting-for-womens-rights

    I looked up that friend al-Hathloul and saw her blog and read her last thing there two years ago (no doubt she can’t write anything in the last two years) “A Clarification”, and if you read between the lines there it sure sounds to me like she disagrees with Robert Spencer. So she ain’t really on our side, just because she’s getting punished by the “extremists”. Sure we can feel sorry for her, but we shouldn’t assume she doesn’t support the same damn ol’ Islam that’s trying to destroy us. Same damn thing goes for the other “brave MUSLIM women” of Saudi Arabia who’ve been punished.

    http://www.loujainhathloul.com/myarticles/enstatement

    • simpleton1 says

      Feb 7, 2019 at 3:51 am

      Very good points, thebigW
      Often we hear of a view and then put our own experience and interpretation on it.
      That is often far from the truth and is really just wishful thinking on our part.

      A question to be asked, is how should a non believing house maid be treated in her own country?
      Would she be allowed to drive and make her way around?

      So would she really be a reformer? What does she really know about islam, and what does she agree about it?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 9, 2019 at 1:11 am

      This is sadly all too often true, thebigW.

  14. Terra Nova says

    Feb 7, 2019 at 5:59 am

    What about the Western countries? Last night I saw some very disturbing video’s , showing FEMA Camps
    which looked like German concentration Camps, high steel gates and barbed wires, I could not believe it. They pick up homeless people with a kind of ambulances and promising people a warm bed and food and to take them there, they get into those camps, but can not get out. Those camps are in the middle of nowhere.
    All with plastic boxes for millions of dead bodies. On the video’s they dais that in 32 cities it was forbidden to feed homeless people. Does anybody know what that all is and why and what will happen to those people.
    It is too something that haunts me. Who can give a clarification. I really was very upset. What is the goal and who does this, on whoms order. Germany inside the US, and then this 2000 guillotines, distributed all over the USA? Can pls somebody explain this to me? What are exactly FEMA camps and why are they there?
    My fate in people left me already with the conquerers of Islam and that nobody (outside the JW and all the others who were fierce enough to stay on writing critics), but then this, this must be The New World Order, people who do not make it, you do away with, is it like in China, they kill people from camps and sell their organs. Is it the usual thing, some people who try to become millionaires with other peoples lives?
    And Jesus wept over Jerusalem , and so do I………(Jerusalem means: the world)
    I know this is not really for JW, but who does this all? My God, what is all happening in the USA, that beautiful
    country, with their beautiful laws of freedom!I went to Google etc. but nobody “seems” to know.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 9, 2019 at 1:12 am

      Silly conspiracy theories, I’m afraid.

  15. gravenimage says

    Feb 9, 2019 at 1:04 am

    Arabia develops app to stop women from traveling without permission from male guardians
    ………………….

    This is the Muslim world being “modern”…

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • J. Morgan on Iranian Kurdistan: Muslim brothers behead their sister in honor killing over her romantic relationship
  • ELI on Uighur leader: ‘We’re actually quite worried’ about what Biden might let China get away with
  • revereridesagain on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’
  • James Lincoln on Erdogan: ‘Turks must defend the rights of Jerusalem, even with their lives’ for ‘the honor of the Islamic nation’
  • Carol on Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and UAE conduct joint military exercises amid rising Turkish threat

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.