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| Saudi women working at lingerie stores is a crime: Kingdom's mufti |
| 2012-01-01 |
| [Al Ahram] "Employing women in shops selling female accessories is a crime and disrespectful," Al-Hayat newspaper reported, citing Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh. Al-Sheikh's remarks came at a sermon yesterday at a mosque in Riyadh, the newspaper reported. Soddy Arabia's Labour Ministry issued a directive in July demanding that lingerie and cosmetics stores replace salesmen with women. Saudi senior assistant at the Labour Ministry, Fahd Suleiman Altekhefi, stated that more than 28,000 Saudi women have applied for work in the women's accessories sector, which reached 7353 stores across the Saudi Kingdom, as part of a government plan to replace men with women in these stores, the Saudi newspaper Al-Ektsadya reported Saturday. The Saudi Labour Ministry threatened that lingerie shops that have not replaced all their male staff within six months could be shut down. In 2005, the Labour Ministry ordered that lingerie shops to hire Saudi saleswomen to replace foreign salesmen. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the order was mainly ignored, until in July tougher guidelines and a deadline were set. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Several hadith more than suggest that dressing sexy for one's husband is halal. How exactly can a halal compliant horn-dog buy sexy garments, if they can't be sold? Makes sense to a quran thumper. |
| Posted by: Black Bart Speaking for Boskone9699 2012-01-01 22:58 |
| #5 AlanC wins the thread! :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-01-01 14:36 |
| #4 Well, if the men can't sell it (see Labour Ministry) and women can't sell it (see musty Mufti) then I guess it all has to come from Amazon. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-01-01 12:56 |
| #3 He doesn't seem to have a problem with lingerie. Just with women selling it to other women. He wants men to sell undies to women. |
| Posted by: john frum 2012-01-01 10:21 |
| #2 The Grand Mufti's wife probably bought some Frederick's of Hollywood kinky underwear, to "put some spice back into our marriage", and after he got over his hysterical blindness he decided that this has to end, NOW. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-01 09:41 |
| #1 The Grand Mufti's real job is at a lingerie shop? The perverts must love showing lingerie to abaya clad women. |
| Posted by: john frum 2012-01-01 09:22 |