Saudi Writer Al Dawood: Working Women Should be Molested
- 7 years ago
A leading Saudi Arabian "self-help" writer and cleric has reportedly urged his 97,000+ Twitter followers to sexually molest working women in the nation's grocery stores.
Using an Arabic hashtag translated by various news outlets as "#harass_female_cashiers", Abdullah Mohammed Daoud apparently made the comments in an attempt to "encourage" Saudi Arabian women to stay at home and protect their chastity - as the country's female labour force increases.
Daoud's tweet, which was picked up by Gulf News, was reportedly "justified" by a homily about a 7th century Islamic warrior who did not want his wife to leave home to visit the mosque.
The paper writes: "Daoud claimed that Al Zubair hid in the dark one night and molested his wife on the street. The wife rushed home and decided against ever going out of her house again, saying 'there is no safer place than home and the world out there is corrupt'."
The IBI Times quotes conservative cleric Khalid Ebrahim Al Saqabi as endorsing the call and claiming the government's proposed law against sexual harassment was "only meant to encourage consensual debauchery".
However, others were less enthused.
Using an Arabic hashtag translated by various news outlets as "#harass_female_cashiers", Abdullah Mohammed Daoud apparently made the comments in an attempt to "encourage" Saudi Arabian women to stay at home and protect their chastity - as the country's female labour force increases.
Daoud's tweet, which was picked up by Gulf News, was reportedly "justified" by a homily about a 7th century Islamic warrior who did not want his wife to leave home to visit the mosque.
The paper writes: "Daoud claimed that Al Zubair hid in the dark one night and molested his wife on the street. The wife rushed home and decided against ever going out of her house again, saying 'there is no safer place than home and the world out there is corrupt'."
The IBI Times quotes conservative cleric Khalid Ebrahim Al Saqabi as endorsing the call and claiming the government's proposed law against sexual harassment was "only meant to encourage consensual debauchery".
However, others were less enthused.