Saudi scholar: "Sports cause women to lose virginity" (1 Viewer)

[Sir-BigBoyJames]

JEDDAH (Reuters) – "Let her get fat!" is the slogan women in Saudi Arabia are using to challenge a clampdown on female-only gyms.

Unhappy at the growing number of unlicensed female gyms, the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs recently closed two in the Red Sea city of Jeddah and one in the city of Dammam on the Gulf Arab coast for not having a license.

In response, newspaper columnists and bloggers are promoting the sarcastic line "let her get fat!" as a way of fighting back, though it is likely to be a losing battle.

In Saudi Arabia, where clerics have extensive influence in society, gyms are sexually segregated because of conservative tribal and religious values.

Female participation in sports has long been a controversial issue in the kingdom, with physical education banned from public girls' schools and clerics issuing religious prohibitions on female participation in sports.

While male gyms get licenses from a government sports body, female gyms have no official authority overseeing them.

"The idea of female fitness is non-existent within our government," said Fouziah Alouni, a prominent women's rights campaigner.

"Depriving women of this is yet another way of marginalizing them. Give us a justifiable reason or leave woman alone. This is unbearable."

The result has been high rates of diabetes and even bone frailty among women, which the Ministry of Health says it wants to combat.

"Football and basketball are sports that require a lot of movement and jumping," Sheikh Abdullah al-Maneea, member of the official Supreme Council of Religious Scholars, said in a religious opinion published in Okaz newspaper Thursday.

He said such excessive movement may harm girls who are still virgins, possibly causing them to lose their virginity.

"There is a school of thought that unfortunately exists and which has a distorted interpretation of Islam," said Lina Al-Maeena, who organises basketball training in Jeddah.

Women's gyms can only exist inside hospitals as "health centres" supervised by the Ministry of Health but prices are so high, at least 1,000 riyals ($266) a month, that only the affluent can afford membership.

Cheaper versions have sprung up under name "beauty salon" or "studio" but now their future is in doubt.

Madawi Al-Hassoun of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce said the chamber has been trying for three years to find a government body prepared to take on board licensing female gyms.[
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090430/od_nm/us_women_gym;_ylt=At95n9zKM0vlwL28z6xC03ftiBIF

after 3 guys:

BBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[sdcloud69]

l0l arabs

 

[Boxes]

i thought sport was encouraged under islam.

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

How can the Arab world continue to churn out so many idiots? Surely they will exhuast themselves soon and usher in a new era of Enlightenment?

No? Yeah, I guess not.

 

[Sir-BigBoyJames]

Enlightenment is the work of the infidel. therefore it is against Islam.

 

[Izzay]

pretty dumb.

a woman's hymen being intact is physical evidence of her virginity, that said, there are other ways you can break your hymen, sport being one of them.

he has just taken a whole heap of information, twisted a great deal and thrown it back at the obliging saudi people.

clearly a woman still needs to have sex to lose her virginity.

 

[Mu5hi]

lol, more arab idoits

 

[Bahrosa-LFC]

lol, more arab idoits

Learn how to spell before calling others IDOITS.

 

[Uncle]

learn how to spell before calling others idoits.

lolololol

 

[Nanasaurus]

Learn how to spell before calling others IDOITS.

BAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

that's even funnier than the original topic.
XD

 

[Laika_]

not really hey

ok so he is a nong who cant spell, not really that funny

 

[Ben Netanyahu]

the biggest threat to a woman's virginity is her being alive

you know what to do, saudi comrades!

 

[KFunk]

and even bone frailty among women

Hijab --> Lack of sun exposure --> Reduced vitamin D₃ --> Osteomalacia (soft bones)

 

[JUSTINISANGLO]

Hijab --> Lack of sun exposure --> Reduced vitamin D₃ --> Osteomalacia (soft bones)

No Hijab -> uncovered meat -> cats -> lost virginity.

 

[moll.]

How can the Arab world continue to churn out so many idiots? Surely they will exhuast themselves soon and usher in a new era of Enlightenment?

No? Yeah, I guess not.

Considering Islam was begun .: 650 years after Christianity, by assuming similar timelines it means that they still have approximately 150 years before their Enlightenment begins, if we take 1600 as the start of the Western one.
Fuck me that's a long time to wait for a little common sense.
It will also be preceeded by a full century of warfare between conservative and liberal sects of Islam. Yay!

 

[SnowFox]

lol men, seriously only a guy would make that kind of "guess"

Only middle eastern.

 

[Cookie182]

For the most conservative nation in the world, they sure do think about sex a lot.

 

[Uncle]

"Did scantily clad women exist to have me call them uncovered meat or was I born to call scantily clad women uncovered meat?"

 

[sdcloud69]

^ that affair blew over pretty quick, is al-halali still around?

 

[Mu5hi]

^ that affair blew over pretty quick, is al-halali still around?

yep