Saudi women’s veil versus modernity.
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.
This story really makes me sad. She was the mother of his five children, how could he not know her face?
“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.
H/T IOTW
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December 6, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Ok I have read it through three times and STILL can not believe it. Could not id his dead wife???
And out of morbid curiosity- who was driving the car she had the wreck in?
December 6, 2010 at 2:18 pm
I dumbfounded.
December 6, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Wow he recognized her “FABRIC”.
FUBAR!
December 6, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Imagine that DE. What is wrong with them?
December 7, 2010 at 5:46 am
Can you imagine how easy it is to impersonate someone over there. “What did she look like…..Well she was wearing blue and that woman’s worn blue all her life so let’s stone her.”
December 7, 2010 at 7:14 am
DE it would never happen because you know that they are just such a righteous group.
Ack, I swallowed my tongue on that one!
December 7, 2010 at 9:57 am
the hard part of impersonation would be doubtless going anywhere without attracting attention regardless of dress, as women’s movement is restricted so severely.
December 7, 2010 at 10:00 am
“Ack, I swallowed my tongue on that one!”
December 6, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Another woman was in the car with her, but they didn’t mention who it was.
December 6, 2010 at 2:35 pm
the tradition of veiling even in front of relatives and indoors is very strange. one wonders if it does not derive from a time when their ancestors were more nomadic?
I have to respect her wishes and not insist on seeing her face.”
it least not all the saudi men prefer it this way either.
December 6, 2010 at 2:40 pm
I find it very strange that the mother who would bear your children would be hidden from view in this century. Fine by me as long as they keep those customs in their homeland.
December 6, 2010 at 4:50 pm
1. To her husband, she’s nothing but an incubator/domestic slave.
2. They have ever intenion of bringing it here. The Muslims continue to colonize Western Society in order to dominate it.
December 6, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Isn’t this just sad Mary. An incubator is about right.
December 8, 2010 at 11:26 am
Yeah, they do – that’s why we’ve got to remain ever-vigilant. No 6th-century sharia law in America. If the moslems want sharia, stay in the midle east!
-MS
December 8, 2010 at 11:35 am
Ya know Park, it’s all of these minor details that the US is not acknowledging that makes me worry.
December 7, 2010 at 9:59 am
“Fine by me as long as they keep those customs in their homeland.”
it is not fine by me, but I can’t think of how to change it without some government edict and enforcement, and I cannot see either happening.
December 6, 2010 at 8:35 pm
They don’t need to look at them when they do their hit and run rapes. That way they don’t have to see how much their women hate having sex with them.
December 6, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Hey, you’re right…what a concept! The bastards can’t see what they are destroying.
December 7, 2010 at 10:25 am
Hey in those societies, women, children and every body else are just consumable units of use and abuse, and then disposal.
No wonder our “liberal” “progressive” Muslim idolatars salivate at the thought of installin their Islamic Dictatorship over us!
snark snark?
December 7, 2010 at 11:28 am
Uhm huh.
December 9, 2010 at 2:17 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8192699/Iran-stoning-woman-freed.html
there is some sort of report that Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani has been freed; cross fingers
December 9, 2010 at 4:01 pm
The other UK media is saying that it was a confession filmed in her home. We will have to wait and see.
December 9, 2010 at 6:01 pm
http://englishtogerman.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/fotos-von-sakineh-ashtiani-in-iran-aufgetaucht-freilassung-nicht-bestatigt/
still up in the air. :/
December 9, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Yeah, didn’t think those rat bastards were forgiving in the least.
December 9, 2010 at 6:06 pm
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/154766.html
press tv now reports that
“Press TV’s “Iran Today” program on Ashtiani’s case is scheduled to go on air on Friday December 10 at 20:35 GMT and will be aired again on Saturday December 11 at 01:35 GMT, 06:35 GMT and 14:35 GMT.”
December 10, 2010 at 11:30 pm
http://stopstonningnow.com/wpress/4302
http://stopstonningnow.com/wpress/4304
latest 2 reports from stop stoning now