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Saudi Arabia Erupts as News Anchor Appears on National TV without Headscarf
International Business Times ^ | 8-7-2014 | Sounak Mukhopadhyay

Posted on 08/06/2014 7:46:52 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

There was uproar in Saudi Arabia after a female news anchor appeared on national television without wearing a headscarf. The news anchor, name undisclosed, read the headlines for the Al Ekhbariya news channel. Probably the only reason she was allowed to appear on a Saudi channel without the headscarf was that she read news from a London studio.

The The "uncovered" girl, whose body is completely covered in a jacket until the neck, has now become a part of a national scandal for the orthodox Muslim country. She apparently wore a hijab on her previous reading sessions as photos appeared online suggesting so. Saudi Arabia, a strictly Islamic country, formed its national legal system on the basis of the Islamic Sharia law. According to the Holy Quran, women are advised to wear "modest" clothes, a term often interpreted differently in various reasons.

In Saudi Arabia, women are strongly advised to cover themselves in clothes. They are required to wear headscarves along with full-length abayas and veils. There may be legal actions against women who do not dress "modestly" in Saudi Arabia. "Immodest" clothing may include not wearing the headscarf.

Saudi Women will have the right to vote in 2015. So far, women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to cast vote.

Female rape victims may be prosecuted for having a physical relation with the rapist.

Women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia.

(Excerpt) Read more at au.ibtimes.com ...


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You go girl!
1 posted on 08/06/2014 7:46:52 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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Easy to say, but the Saudi morality police can be brutal!


2 posted on 08/06/2014 7:48:16 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Citizen Zed

In Saudi Arabia, “tonight without your headscarf”…
…means “tomorrow without your head.”


3 posted on 08/06/2014 7:48:19 PM PDT by Yossarian
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Oh, the horror!!!!!


4 posted on 08/06/2014 7:50:53 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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You misspelled ‘whore’...


5 posted on 08/06/2014 7:53:48 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: Citizen Zed
SHE IS A WITCH! BURN HER!
6 posted on 08/06/2014 7:54:39 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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And it's too bad, and it's too sad, that the “Kingdom” is still in the seventh century and always will be. Linda Ronstadt not withstanding.
7 posted on 08/06/2014 7:55:00 PM PDT by Fungi (Do not read this post.)
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To: Citizen Zed

When western female reporters go to Islamic countries for interviewing people, they wear HEADSCARVES well duhhhh more stupid crap


8 posted on 08/06/2014 7:56:12 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits n firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: Citizen Zed

Pic perp please. All I saw were three golden girl camels with nice smiles.


9 posted on 08/06/2014 7:58:40 PM PDT by Riverine
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Saudi Arabia is now considered a moderate islamic country.


10 posted on 08/06/2014 7:59:03 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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In Saudi Arabia, women are strongly advised to cover themselves in clothes. They are required to wear headscarves along with full-length abayas and veils...

Spent a week in Dubai,the nearby playground of rich Saudis,earlier this year.One evening while on a "desert safari" I got to know three Saudi ladies who appeared to be in their 30's.Intelligent,perfect English,dressed in fairly conservative,but modern,casual wear (slacks,blouse,etc).And they were gorgeous...and young enough to be my daughters.They didn't strike me as the type who enjoyed wearing those black burlap sacks.At one point I asked them what brought them to Dubai they replied,in unison,"because this is where we come to have fun"

The only Saudis I've ever interacted with...a big surprise for sure.

11 posted on 08/06/2014 7:59:58 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (We're The First Generation Not Forced To Fight To Defend Our Freedom.And It Shows!)
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She’s quite beautiful.


12 posted on 08/06/2014 8:01:04 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: Citizen Zed

Scandalous!!


13 posted on 08/06/2014 8:01:20 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Citizen Zed

14 posted on 08/06/2014 8:01:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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Yeah. Next thing you know, they’ll be showing their ankles...


15 posted on 08/06/2014 8:03:57 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Citizen Zed

That’s a stoning offense!


16 posted on 08/06/2014 8:11:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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Imagine the uproar if a Miley Cyrus video was broadcast in Saudi Arabia.


17 posted on 08/06/2014 8:15:38 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Citizen Zed

Tomorrow we’ll see her head on a stick, paraded around by chanting religious zombies.


18 posted on 08/06/2014 8:17:30 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: KC_Lion

19 posted on 08/06/2014 8:18:17 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Citizen Zed

It was broadcast in Saudi Arabia, but the section was actually recorded at a London studio.


20 posted on 08/06/2014 8:18:23 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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