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| Saudi mufti objects to women working in lingerie shops |
| 2008-12-25 |
| Saudi Arabia's grand mufti has objected to women working in lingerie shops, despite the Labour Ministry's approval and rising complaints from female customers about male-only staff, papers said on Wednesday. "Women are entrusted to us, we should not involve them in matters far from their nature," mufti Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said. The mufti's disapproval came after the powerful religious police, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, announced on Tuesday that it does not oppose women sales personnel in lingerie stores as long as they worked in malls restricted to women and did not come in contact with men. Saudi women have long complained that they feel uncomfortable having to buy lingerie from men and would prefer female sales assistants. But the kingdom's ultra-conservative religious leaders have opposed allowing saleswomen in shops where men are allowed on the grounds that it would violate restrictions on contacts between opposite sexes not from the same family. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Obviously, the mufti doesn't understand the Hooters business model. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2008-12-25 14:28 |
| #6 "All my wives wearing lingerie? Oy! I would go blind!" |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-12-25 08:33 |
| #5 I mean artificial selection. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-12-25 06:52 |
| #4 Inbreeding you mean? |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-12-25 06:40 |
| #3 Women are entrusted to us, we should not involve them in matters far from their nature Look that 3 - 4 thousand years of selective breeding can do. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-12-25 06:35 |
| #2 > First it's lingerie. Then it's makeup. And then it's the miniskirt. Lingerie is the flame, makeup is the fuse, and the miniskirt is the bomb! Nuke Me! |
| Posted by: Dr. Bright Pebbles 2008-12-25 06:26 |
| #1 First it's lingerie. Then it's makeup. And then it's the miniskirt. Lingerie is the flame, makeup is the fuse, and the miniskirt is the bomb! |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-12-25 02:22 |