Mody Al-Khalaf wrote a good column at Arab News. A long column, but good indeed. Here are my favourite parts.
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When our religion is not clear on certain issues, we take a stance or a position and vehemently defend it, to the point of declaring others un-Islamic if they do not follow what we believe is right. In our Islamic state, for instance, it seems not to matter that three of four prominent Islamic scholars point out that a woman’s hijab does not entail covering her face. Nonetheless, we insist that every woman cover her face, wear a black abaya and even direct how it should be worn. And we employ men as religious police whose job is to go after women in the street or in any public place and force them to adhere to our version of Islamic hijab. No matter if they are of a different sect or even religion.I put these parts of the article because I think some of you will be too lazy to click the link and read the whole column ;-)
In our customized Islamic state, we make our own laws and simply do not enforce those with which we happen to disagree. The best example of this is that woman are prevented from driving. We conveniently overlook that there is no Islamic law stating that woman may not drive. Recently we went one step further: we now forbid Saudi travel agencies from issuing international driver’s licenses to Saudi women. We did that just to make sure that Saudi women cannot legally get behind the wheel of a car anywhere in the world. We are amazingly efficient in closing loopholes when we want to close them, aren’t we?
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