Saudi restaurants' decision to ban women met with adoration, criticism

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Saudi restaurants' decision to ban women met with adoration, criticism

ANI | November 24, 2014, 15.11 pm IST



Dubai: A move by restaurants in Saudi Arabia to ban women from entering their premises has elicited both criticism and praise on social networks, a report said.

As several restaurants erected "Women are not allowed" signs in front of their entrance, the National Society for Human Rights Secretary General Khalid Al Fakhri called for their immediate removal. He said that the restaurant owners have acted on their own discretion and have therefore, broken the law, reported Gulfnews.com.

The report quoted a restaurant owner as saying that the move is aimed at avoiding possible problems following a series of harassment cases.

Several Saudis on social networks struck the same tune by saying that the presence of women in restaurants "caused several social issues."

However, at the same time, there were people who blasted the decision on social media by saying that it amounted to blatant discrimination against women.

One of the social media users also compared the anti-woman signs erected outside restaurants to the anti-Black signs used in the United States during apartheid.


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[alicewonders]

My God, these people are still in the dark ages.  Can we just build a moat around them? 

War on Women?  Do I hear any liberals protesting this?

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Hello?  Do any libs give a crap about this?

I realize that Romney put women in binders and all that (I'm being absurd to illustrate absurdity)....

Seriously - what gives - libs?

[kevindavis007]

My God, these people are still in the dark ages.  Can we just build a moat around them? 

War on Women?  Do I hear any liberals protesting this?

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Hello?  Do any libs give a crap about this?

I realize that Romney put women in binders and all that (I'm being absurd to illustrate absurdity)....

Seriously - what gives - libs?

Or blocking birth control access, by forbidding taxpayer funded birth control access. This is the real war on women.

[Oceander]

Want to see the democrats/progressives explode in wrath?  Change the word "Women" in those signs to "Blacks".

[kevindavis007]

Want to see the democrats/progressives explode in wrath?  Change the word "Women" in those signs to "Blacks".

They won't since it is Muslims is doing this..

[olde north church]

I'm betting sheep and pickle chuggin' will be welcomed!