Monday 7 May 2007

Muttawa

A little over a week ago an American women's society met over a restaurant here in Riyadh. It was a women-only affair, they ate a little dinner and had a few stalls to buy trinkets from.
The muttawa arrived and told the ladies that they all had to leave. Their reason? Too many ladies together in one place.
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10 comments:

  1. Saudi Jawa7 May 2007 at 14:06:00 GMT+3

    And they ask me why I hate Riyadh...

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  2. Anonymous9 May 2007 at 23:33:00 GMT+3

    Well, let's face it Margrave. Theoretically,too many women in ANY place IS dangerous!

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  3. Paul11 May 2007 at 08:42:00 GMT+3

    Hi. You, your friends, or your blog readers might be interested in my first novel, "Saudi Match Point", published last month by Blacksmith Books.

    As far as I know, it's the only novel in English set entirely in modern-day Saudi Arabia.

    While not main characters, muttawas figure heavily in one of the two intersecting plots. The action alternates between Riyadh and Dhahran.

    You can see more about the book and buy it at www.blacksmithbooks.com for $10, which includes the cost of international shipping.

    Regards,
    Paul

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  4. Margrave12 May 2007 at 09:11:00 GMT+3

    Alwan - LOL! I don't know if its dangerous, but its certainly intimidating ;-)

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  5. Anonymous23 May 2007 at 09:43:00 GMT+3

    Ahh someone should kick their ass. Well we all should. They have no bleeding right to talk like that and they should be ignored. If they think what they are doing is islamic then they are clueless (as if we didn't already know that).

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  6. Anonymous31 May 2007 at 17:19:00 GMT+3

    i think the muttawa :)
    are worried for the ladies !
    and the muttawa asked them to leave because they didn't cover their heads !
    women aren't dangerous ;)

    anyway the ladies didn't do anything wronge i'm sorry about what happend .

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  7. Reem6 June 2007 at 20:00:00 GMT+3

    I've read somewhere that one of the speakers at a conference held in Riyadh asked the women to step out of the conference hall before giving his speech.
    whats wrong with alot of women in the same place?

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