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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 10:31 PM Aug 2014

Female Anchor Appears Without Headscarf On Saudi TV, Ignites Outrage

Emily Thomas

A female anchor ignited a controversy when she appeared without a headscarf during a national news broadcast on a Saudi government-run channel. A clip of the broadcast was posted to YouTube on July 29 and has been making the rounds on social media.

This week, a spokesman for Saudi news channel Al Ekhbariya said the woman in the segment was delivering her news bulletin out of the London office and said similar incidents would not happen in the future. “She was not in a studio inside Saudi Arabia and we do not tolerate any transgression of our values and the country’s systems,” Saleh Al Mughailif said, per Gulf News.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/female-anchor-saudi-tv-no-headscarf_n_5651850.html?utm_hp_ref=religion&ir=Religion

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Female Anchor Appears Without Headscarf On Saudi TV, Ignites Outrage (Original Post) hrmjustin Aug 2014 OP
I don't think I'll vacation in Saudi Arabia this year. IrishAyes Aug 2014 #1
There is no rule in the Quran that women have to wear headscarfs. MADem Aug 2014 #2

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
1. I don't think I'll vacation in Saudi Arabia this year.
Wed Aug 6, 2014, 12:39 AM
Aug 2014

Of course the religious 'right' have their own set of rules for the rest of us in America, confining in their own way. And nobody had better waste time thinking they won't push us back to the 1700's at least, given the chance. They expect women to be silent and submissive; some want to ban compulsory education; they are, to put it mildly, the American Taliban.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
2. There is no rule in the Quran that women have to wear headscarfs.
Wed Aug 6, 2014, 09:02 AM
Aug 2014

It's an invention of assholes, frankly. And in recent years, it's gotten worse in a lot of countries that didn't buy off on that stupidity.

It's like going to the Vatican in August, and seeing young backpackers stripping down to thongs and nothing else, in order to change out of their shorts and spaghetti strap tops into trousers or long dresses, and shirts that cover their arms, in order to enter the basilica--it's like a strip show out front, modesty behind those giant doors--very silly.

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