Saudi Arabia's religious police are cracking down on adorned abayas in the run-up to Eid Al-Fitr and have threatened shopkeepers with fines and even prison for selling the black robes with any form of decoration.
Shopkeepers in the kingdom's capital Riyadh said they are having to turn away customers, many of whom are looking to buy more fashionable abayas with patterned, beaded or colourful trim, the UK's Financial Times reported on Saturday.
Decorative abayas are becoming increasingly popular in the Gulf as women's dress codes are relaxed. However the liberalisation, though only slight, has angered some conservatives.
Women's rights activists slammed the latest crackdown by the religious police, or mutawa’a.
"They [the mutawa’a] want women to be faceless, nameless and shrouded in blackness," Samar Falan, a women’s rights activist and writer based in Jeddah, was quoted as saying.
"They should focus on fighting vices, not women," Buthaina Nassr, another activist, told the newspaper. "I do not understand why they force us to wear black in such a hot country while men can wear white."
BusinessArabia.com
I have no idea how to comment on the stupidity of these people
6 comments:
me neither!
I do
But I'm fasting
The ones here would love to do that
r they really fatheen leah hal daraja ?
hehehe
finally someone decides to crack down on those ugly abbayas they're adorned with such ugly prints and razzle dazzle they literally blind you .. what an eye-soar
for the first time ever i have to agree with the hay'a
fi "fatwa" Tu7arrem MICKEY MOUSE!
Enough said..
brace yourself.. we're next!
simper
wlcm back
كويــتي لايــعه كبــده
I am lookin forward to hear from you after you break your fast
eshda3a
eee walla fatheen
geo
I do agree the are ugly 3abayas, and I do agree they are an eye soar. maybe you should start 3abaya fashion program on Ftv
fluff
I know I read about it ... poor mickey
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