Saudi Shaikh Issues Fatwa: Women Out of Work (and in Bed?)………..
Alarabiya reports that Saudi preacher/professor Yusuf al-Ahmed issuing a fatwa attacking stores that hire women cashiers and calling upon shoppers to boycott them on the grounds that their owners violate Islamic teachings and promote Westernization. “The recent appointment of several female cashiers in Banda Shopping Centers, owned by the Savola Group, led Sheikh al-Ahmed, who is also a professor at the Imam Mohamed bin Saud Islamic University, to issue a fatwa banning the practice. "This is prohibited because it is part of the Western project that is imposing itself upon our society," he said in an interview with a fatwa show. "This is a project of hypocrites and has to be stopped." Ahmed said he contacted those in charge of the "project" and conveyed to them the concerns of the society about hiring women cashiers, but their response was "inappropriate." Ahmed called upon Muslims to boycott Banda Shopping Centers in all of Saudi Arabia and sue them if they do not stop……..”
This comes barely two weeks after the king issued his own fatwa that all fatwas should only be issued by officially sanctioned and specifically authorized imams and shaikhs.
FYI: these working women are not even Saudis, or perhaps even Muslim. They tend to be Asians.
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