Despite the best efforts of its Crown Prince to reform and modernize Saudi society with a de-emphasis on religion in schools and daily life, women’s rights have a long way to go.
Can Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s striking reforms for his country become a catalyst for modernizing Islam?
Middle East Eye A leaked video reportedly showing Saudi security services brutally assaulting a group of women at an orphanage in Saudi Arabia‘s south-west has prompted outrage online and a promise by the government to investigate the incident.
The video, first posted on Twitter on Tuesday by a woman who filmed the attack, shows dozens of men dressed in security uniform and others in Saudi national dress chasing women, beating them with wooden sticks and lashing them with leather belts. The video then shows a man dragging one of the women by her hair as she screams, while another beats her with a belt.
In response to the video, the governor of the province, Turki bin Talal bin Abdulaziz, ordered the formation of a committee to investigate “all parties” of the incident and “refer the case to the competent authority”.
Lina al-Hathloul, a Saudi human rights activist who serves as the head of monitoring and communications at Alqst rights group, says, “This video shows the prevailing and unrelenting repression against women in Saudi Arabia. Even when women do not have male guardians and are living in orphanages, it is the arm of the state itself that violently attacks them for demanding their legitimate rights.”
Abdullah al-Juraywi, a London-based Saudi opposition activist and head of Diwan London dialogue platform, told MEE the assault came in response to a strike held by the women to demand improved conditions after earlier protests about mistreatment were ignored.
h/t Mary C
Sick fucks and hypocrites! These are the same clowns who insist that women should not interact with non-maharram men, or if they have to, should have a maharram man present with them! We cannot wait for this sick nation’s oil resources to run out so they do not have the means to manage perceptions that this kind of shit is normal.
I sense the Crown Prince is pretending to be a surgeon trying to remove the cancer of Islam. Sorry, but it has metastasized and can’t be removed.
Savages all!
They drag them off to rape them. Who will do anything? They are orphans!
Meanwhile the feminists in the Western #METOO movementare silent though they may say this is just their customs and traditions…. Nothing to see here folks move along now….
Just remember that ALL white Heterosexual Males are rapists and sexists and muslim men are just engaging in their own cultural practices…
Youve gotten it all wrong, the westworld metoo movements want this because if they didnt then they would demonstrate against the import. This is what will be the new female freedom here in the west and all clap their hands shouting we want more of them and we want to expierience the religion of freedom. I say give them all they want and then to beat the living crap out of them when they bitch about the way things are.
The poor girls had the misfortune of being born into Mohammad’s Islam.
Mohammad’s Blood Soaked Quran and Mohammad’s cruel god are possessed with an all-consuming TERRIFYING, SATANIC HATE for women and girls.
Who will dare to OPPOSE the Righteous HOLY ONE, our Precious, Wonderful, Majestic Creator who dwells in unapproachable light, Almighty God, who created females with infinite LOVE and CARE?