Saudi Cleric- Women Can Ditch The Hijab, Wear Makeup, and Post Selfies On Social Media

Saudi Cleric and former head of the Kingdom's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Sheikh Ahmed Bin Qassim al-Ghamdi has revisited his fatwa from several years ago claiming that women were not required to cover their faces or arms. Many in Saudi Arabia wear abaya's/niqabs that cover everything but one's eyes.

 It appears he is taking it one step further with another recent fatwa stating that a Muslim woman doesn't need to wear a veil at all:

 “Islam doesn’t require women to wear veil.” 

Plus they can wear makeup, take selfies, and post them on social media sites like Facebook.

Apparently, a Twitter follower asked if it was okay for Muslim women to post photos of themselves on social media, which prompted his response:

 “...there is nothing wrong if a woman showed her face or put make-up.”

He also posted on Twitter that it was only Prophet Mohammed's wives who were supposed to wear the hijab.

Quoting a Moroccan scholar, he said it was preferable but not mandatory.

More here.

Muslim Girls Gone Wild In Kuwait- 3 Women Arrested For Being Naked Under Abaya

Shove young women under an abaya (Muslim cloak) and veil, force gender segregation and other restrictions on them and they're bound to rebel.

In a case of Muslim girls gone wild, two young women and a minor were arrested at a cafe in a shopping mall in Kuwait after a little boy spied one of the women buck naked under her long cloak. What the little boy was doing peeking under the woman's abaya is anyone's guess, but little boy tells mum, outraged mum obviously calls the police, and it turns out all three had not a stitch of clothing on underneath.

But walking around naked in a Kuwaiti mall isn't the only thing those naughty girls were guilty of. Apparently they told police they had also been drinking alcohol and getting it on the night before. Not a  good thing to admit to in a Muslim country. And they certainly didn't make it easy for the police- one girl refused to leave, giving the customers a little peep show before they were hauled off.  No-one knows what they will be charged with, yet. But according to Marwa Tarek, a Kuwaiti activist, if they are found guilty of being gay the punishment could be severe.

“The crime and penalty for being gay is not a nice one here and they could be facing years in prison if the accusations they had consensual sex are proven true,” she said.

Not quite accusations since they were the ones to admit to the sexual activity, if they were indeed telling the truth.  I don't know why they would admit to drinking and having gay sex in a religious culture that forbids both, but at least they're not in Iran.  There, they would be hanged.

Only one woman was local, while the other two were from undisclosed Gulf countries with a father who was "too busy with" his "business" to go to Kuwait to deal with his errant kids.

It's all rather amusing, if it weren't for the potential consequences of their actions.