(CNN) -- Saudi Arabia's religious police detained two male novelists for questioning last week after they attempted to get the autograph of a female writer at a book fair in Riyadh, according to local media reports.
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Wanting to get her "autograph". Yeah, we've all heard that line before.
I remember as a teenager, crawling out my bedroom window so I could meet up with girls who would give me their autograph.
Way to to religious police!
Just for one day I wish the conservative Muslim countries would take a day off. Get up in the morning and dress how ever he/she would like. Go out for a nice walk and actually look other people in the eye and say hello and have a chat and get to know some other people, yes of the opposite sex, and realize how interesting other people can be, and just enjoy life.
Of course it will never happen becaue 99% of the people would not ever want to go back to the day before and the people in control know that.
We all get shit from the Christians day in and day out, that's what this whole bloody site is about. but Muslims are just nut's. I'm sorry but I can't stand this shit. the conservative Muslim countries out there are horrible places and I don't know why everyone puts up with it.
what's really getting to me lately is how even mentioning this kind of thing is treated like some kind of hate crime. they run the most backwards and tyrannical countries in the world and everyone I know seems to think that just because it's their religion they have some kind of right to treat women like slaves and govern their countries like 1984.
I've decided the entire country(is it a country, right? I need to look that up) of Saudi Arabia isn't real.
It's the only way I can keep my sanity.
And the best part is that we're supposed to "respect" these people and their freedom of religion.
Fuck repect and everybody who advocates it in favour of those assholes, i'm sick and tired of having to defend the inalienable right to believe whatever the fuck you want for people who continuously stomp on it.
From now on the game goes on like this: you respect other people's creeds you get respect back. You don't? too fucking bad, you'll get what you deserve.
@Thejebusfire
Yes, in the urban areas you have women who not only read and write, but are well educated and can (and do) work. In fact, like with Iran, woman from wealthy families are liable to be even more educated than men because education is considered a 'safe' profession for women to go into.
There are many stripes of fundie islam - just as there are with Christianity, some are more fucked up than the others. The Taliban I'd say is the worse, Wahhabism is a tiny tiny bit better.
Let's not forget people, like moderate Christians, there are many many moderate muslims and quite a few, relatively, moderate muslim states.
And yet look at Azerbaijan. Just as Shia Islam as Iran, but is the other extreme, in terms of socio-politics. Is very much a secular democracy, is pro-US (Al-Qaeda has no foothold there), and enjoys full diplomatic relations with Israel (because of their Jewish community protected by a religious edict in the 17th Century, Israel sent them aid, post-USSR collapse). Apart from the mosques (as well as other places of worship), you'd hardly tell it was a Muslim majority country. The women wear Western dress (certainly the young women; fancy hairstyles, crop-tops, miniskirts & heels!), and the men drink alcohol - they obey the Quran literally, re. not drinking the 'fruit of the vine'; their attitude?: 'We don't drink wine - so instead we drink Vodka!' (they do a very good plum brandy too).
Saudi Arabia (as well as Iran, Sudan etc), take note. Wahhabiism & the Mutawwa have no right to exist in our modern world.
I'll be the last to defend the Saudi state, but some of these comments are so prejudiced their authours should be ashamed of themselves. Of course there are literate women in Saudi, as well as female authors and poets and artists and photographers and whatnot. Stay on topic please.
By the way, Azerbaijan is hardly a functioning democracy.
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