Saudi Wahhabi Shaikh: Using Women for Pleasure is Permitted
Although I should know
better, I am still baffled when I read about Fatwas by so-called
Salafi-Wahhabi shaiks permitting the use and abuse of women for men's pleasure
(reinforcing the prevalent concept of women as disposable objects) . Al-Watan
newspaper is reporting a session by a Shikh called Al-Mutlak, who is a member
of the committee of senior scholars in Saudi Arabia, where he addressed Saudi
students who are about to leave for school abroad and gave them a bunch of
religious advice (Arabic). So,
among other things, this guy sanctioned marriage with the intention of divorce.
And it doesn't stop here, according to Al-Mutlak, these men don't have to
inform the women they choose for their sexual pleasures of this intention.
What does that mean?
Simple: Young Saudi men
(who obviously have uncontrollable needs) can get married to women who they
meet abroad and stay with them until they are done with school and after that,
all they have to do is say the magic words: You are divorced.
How convenient.
This, mind you, is
coming from a Sunni Salafi scholar, who, in his own tradition, considers Zawaj Al-Mutaa (Temporary
marriage allowed in Shiitism) to be a sign of all that is evil (zina -extramarital
sex) and use this difference between the two sects as a way to tarnish Shiites.
So, Shikh whatever your
name is, what about me, a woman studying in the
[Via the Saudi Liberal
Network]
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