Jihadi Du Jour: An Easier way to Rape Women

schoolgirls burned in Saudi fire - lack of headscarves

I read this story over a week ago about the Saudi Religious Police demanding that the authorities of Medina, one of Islam's holiest cities, build separate sidewalks for women. I didn't bother blogging about it because it was just another instance of Islamic misogyny and it didn't have the same impact as when the same Religious Police beat back those poor schoolgirls into a burning school in Mecca, because they were not wearing headscarves and abayas in March 11, 2002. 15 girls died and 50 were injured as a result of this barbaric, primitive, and savage devotion to a fake religion.

Cartoon credit: ILLUSTRATED P.I.G TO ISLAM

Here's the sidewalk story:

RIA Novosti,
31 Aug 2007,
Saudi Arabian religious police call for sex-segregated sidewalks
The country's Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), tasked with enforcing Sharia law, believes men and women should not be allowed to mix on the streets of the Islam's second holiest place, where the Prophet Muhammad is buried.

The clerical police, or Mutaween, are authorized to arrest unrelated men and women caught socializing, anyone suspected of being homosexual or a prostitute, and to enforce Islamic dress codes.

The Mutaween enforce Islamic female dress codes, ordering women to wear headscarves and abayas, long black dresses covering the whole body except for face, hands and feet. Women are not allowed to leave their houses without their husbands or immediate male relatives.

Saudi women are also not allowed to ride a bicycle or drive a car, because if the vehicle breaks down, a woman might have to talk to an unknown male.

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