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When the Abaya Is Not Enough

There is always someone somewhere who can be more fundamentalist than thou. 

Via Bikyamasr: 

Women with sexy eyes in Saudi Arabia may be forced to cover them up, according to the spokesperson of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) in the conservative Gulf kingdom. Spokesman of the Ha’eal district, Sheikh Motlab al-Nabet said the committee has the right to stop a women whose eyes seem “tempting” and order her to cover them immediately. 

Milla Jovovich should probably avoid Saudi Arabia.  

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   11/18/11 16:49

There sure are some latent psychoses beneath the surface of that society, and those like it.

Misogyny chief among them (although that is rather patent, no?)

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   11/18/11 17:24
   11/18/11 17:28

Wouldn't it be easier to just put some saltpeter in the camel's milk for those men over there?

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   11/18/11 17:53
   11/18/11 18:28

Great. I finally manage to forget Liz Taylor and then you get me started again.

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drk
   11/19/11 12:02

It reads like a story from the Onion. Only a satirist -- or the keepers of the One True Faith -- could invent something as absurd as this. But why does no one challenge this nonsense? The UN commission on women's status, or Gloria Steinem, perhaps.

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