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Saudi Man Couldn’t Identify Dead Wife After Fatal Car Wreck...
Gateway Pundit ^ | December 6, 2010 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 12/07/2010 10:49:56 AM PST by florm15

…Until Her Veil Was Put Back Over Her Face

A Saudi man could not identify his wife after a fatal car accident without her veil on. He’d never seen her face. Emirates 24 reported, via Jihad Watch:

After nearly 10 years of marriage that produced five children, Mufleh Mohammed of Saudi Arabia still has not seen his wife’s face.

Mohammed Hilal, another Saudi husband, could not identify his wife who was killed in a road crash until her veil was put back on her face.

Mufleh and Mohammed are among many Saudi men who have never seen the face of their wives as they insist on sticking to ancient tradition of keeping their face covered even in front of their relatives or husbands in defiance of ongoing changes brought about by the advent of oil and a massive foreign influx.

In a report on such habits, the Saudi Arabic language daily Alhayat said many women in the conservative Gulf Kingdom that controls nearly a quarter of the world’s oil still defy the winds of change and stick to their ancestors’ traditions.

Even after they get married, they never remove their burqu (face veil), leaving their husbands guessing how they look like. Mufleh is one of those husbands.

“My wife still keeps her face covered all the time even in front of her family and relatives because she has been accustomed to this since she was a child…I have to respect her wishes and not insist on seeing her face,” he said.

Alhayat said Mohammed was another one among many Saudi husbands who are deprived from seeing the face of their wives.

“I could not identify my wife after she was killed in a road accidents…I asked security women to put the veil back on her face…after they did so, I recognized her and indentified the dead person as my wife,” he said.

What a wonderful way to live.


TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: compulsivedisorder; islam; misogynist; ocd; sharialaw
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1 posted on 12/07/2010 10:50:00 AM PST by florm15
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To: florm15

Why didn’t the man simply marry a tree with a proper knot hole?


2 posted on 12/07/2010 10:53:19 AM PST by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: florm15

That’s sick and developmentally immature. Not to mention stupid.


3 posted on 12/07/2010 10:53:41 AM PST by pgkdan (Protect and Defend America! End the practice of islam on our shores before it's too late!)
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To: mbarker12474
Why didn’t the man simply marry a tree with a proper knot hole?

Because he pined for something more.

4 posted on 12/07/2010 10:54:33 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: florm15

Tamed like animals from childhood. Oh well, she still put out the babies. I’m sure that’s all that counts.


5 posted on 12/07/2010 10:56:11 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: florm15

"Yeah, that's her. I'd know her anywhere. Put a bag on the car so I can identify it."
6 posted on 12/07/2010 10:56:34 AM PST by Blogatron (Brought to you by The American Frog Council; 'Frog - The other green meat')
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To: florm15

She probably would have lived if he didn’t believe that women should ride in the trunk.


7 posted on 12/07/2010 10:57:39 AM PST by Never on my watch (This is a revolution d@mmit, we're going to have to offend SOMEbody! (Adams character - 1776))
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To: mbarker12474

He never cedar face.


8 posted on 12/07/2010 10:58:40 AM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: florm15

.....GROAN.....


9 posted on 12/07/2010 10:58:49 AM PST by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance...)
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To: florm15

Women depersonalized. If you think about it, for humans, in a real sense, our face is who we are. In this culture, women are nobody. And they want it that way?


10 posted on 12/07/2010 10:58:48 AM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: florm15

If she was so bound to ancient tradition, how was she killed in a CAR CRASH?


11 posted on 12/07/2010 11:00:36 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: florm15
 
 
Yeah, that's my wife on the right.


12 posted on 12/07/2010 11:05:04 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
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To: BykrBayb

LOL!


13 posted on 12/07/2010 11:07:19 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Blogatron

I think I may know her ,,, years ago though


14 posted on 12/07/2010 11:07:30 AM PST by piroque (it is better to perish than to live as slaves.)
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To: mbarker12474

lol. Maybe they like identifying their wife by Braille...


15 posted on 12/07/2010 11:10:03 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: mbarker12474

“Why didn’t the man simply marry a tree with a proper knot hole?”

Diggum check for bees!


16 posted on 12/07/2010 11:12:02 AM PST by eartrumpet
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To: florm15

Bravo Sierra!


17 posted on 12/07/2010 11:12:10 AM PST by Rapscallion (Will history judge that Obama and Soros destroyed our America?)
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To: florm15
Humans don't live like that. They can't.

I don't know what species Muslims are, but it isn't human.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

18 posted on 12/07/2010 11:15:40 AM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Good thing that she isn’t wearing cammo gloves. She would pass for anyone.


19 posted on 12/07/2010 11:20:29 AM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: brytlea

They can’t beat anybody except their wives and they can’t
produce anythig but death!


20 posted on 12/07/2010 11:23:35 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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