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Of course there are laws, I have no idea what the other poster is talking about. Saudi Arabia even has a police force, the mutaween, which enforces things like
by InclinedPlane 13y ago
Of course there are laws, I have no idea what the other poster is talking about. Saudi Arabia even has a police force, the mutaween, which enforces things like dress codes for women (officially the name of the organization which runs the religious police in Saudi Arabia is called "The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice"). There is a famous example of an incident in 2002 wherein during a fire in a girls' school in Mecca the mutaween prevented girls from fleeing the school due to being improperly clothed, 15 girls died and 50 others were injured from the fire.
- eshvk 13y agoIn other countries where there are no laws proscribing women to wear burkhas (e.g. India), there are plenty who do so.
- megablast 13y agoJust because there are no laws does not mean there is not a lot of pressure from family and society. There is no law saying women can't wear bikinis in the street, yet you don't see it very often.
- InclinedPlane 13y agoWere we talking about India? I don't remember that being the case.
- eshvk 13y agoSure. I did use the phrase "other countries". I don't know enough about Saudi society to counter your narrative that it is only laws that mean that every single woman is clad in a burkha (which I find suspicious). So I took an anecdote from a society that I know.