Okay, they have gotten away with giving women little to no rights. They have gotten away with forcing certain societal roles upon them. They have gotten away with exiling or imprisoning the many women who decided to actually do something about their civil rights. But to mess with something that can ultimately affect a woman’s relationship with God, such as the access of women to a key site in the house of God, is going over the line and is incredibly un-Islamic to say the least. Overcrowding is a huge issue, no one is denying that. If they want to control the population there are other ways to do it - they can limit the number of people who can enter the site (per day or week, depending on the season), for example. They can control timing and how long people can stay there depending on how crowded it is. They can balance the number of men and women. Anything. There are many other options. Banning women from the key site shouldn’t even be one of them. It's insulting.
I’m not sure whether or not this horrid idea will be approved, millions of women will protest against it and I really doubt they’d have much of a green light to go ahead with the new rule. It’s still disgusting to even think about though.
...and I'm not even Muslim!
mental note to self: the article spelled Jeddah as "Jiddah". unscrambling the letters, could it have meant "jihad"? (or perhaps i'm getting paranoid?)
