Empowered by Indignant Rage!
You can mess with some women and get away with it, but eventually there will be those among the women who take themselves seriously enough to reject the thesis that they are meant to be subordinated to men's will and who will no longer accept their dignity as independent human beings being trampled upon by ignorant, boorish, fanatical-religious watchmen.To begin with it sounds like a typical Monty Python-like government title: The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. Volunteer ultra-religious Islamists patrolling the public arena in Saudi Arabia to apprehend the dissolute young women who display their unacceptably wayward predilections, insulting Islam by consorting with men.
Women sufficiently degraded in social attitudes and religious conviction that they assert themselves to wear unsuitable garb, scandalizing the public, and particularly the posses of the self-righteous morality police. Prowling shopping malls in a dress code not recognized by the religious authorities.
And of the utmost degrading acts, appearing in public with men not their fathers, their brothers, their husbands. The volunteer religious police have latterly been taken aback at the viciously unexpected behaviour of some miserable elements of the country's women who have taken it upon themselves to protest the harassments and arrests.
One young woman, reported in a Saudi newspaper, had the unmitigated gall to beat the Mutaween-member (volunteer policeman) so thoroughly on his face that he was taken to hospital for treatment. Allowing her fearful male companion time to compose himself, after he had fainted with fear.
Another woman caught in the act of meeting a man in a public area - by one of the 5,000 religious volunteers on patrol - gave her fearful male friend the opportunity to absent himself, by pointing a gun at the men in the patrol vehicle and shooting at them.
"People are so 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", one activist said. "There will be more resistance."
Go to it, Saudi women!
Labels: Human Relations, Human Rights, Middle East, Sexism
posted by Pieface @ Monday, May 24, 2010
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