Saudi Religious Police to Crack Down on Women with Alluring Eyes

It's hard to believe that Saudi Arabia could be any more repressive to women, but they've just found another way to isolate them. It's not enough that women must be covered from head to foot, including their faces, but now the "religious police" want women to cover their eyes lest they lure men into some barbaric sex act. This is of course completing the living sack into a burqua as imposed by the Afghani Taliban.

Way to go, Saudi, actually stepping further back into the dark, barbaric past of Islam.

FROM TRANSLATINGJIHAD.COM:

Saudi Religious Police to Crack Down on Women with Alluring Eyes
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The below translation comes from an article published today in Gaza-based Dunya al-Watan, and is also being reported in other major media outlets throughout the Arab world:

Saudi Religious Police Pledge to Pursue Women with Eyes that Provoke Fitna

Dunya al-Watan, 17 Nov 2011

The Council for Commanding the Good and Forbidding the Evil (the religious police) in Saudi Arabia confirmed Wednesday that it will force women cover up their eyes, especially those which "provoke fitna."

The media spokesman for the Council for Commanding the Good and Forbidding the Evil, Shaykh Mutliq al-Nabit, said in Ha'il (north) that "The men of the council will intervene to compel women to cover up their eyes, especially those which provoke fitna."

Arab media outlets picked up a short video clip on YouTube, which states that, "The Council for Commanding the Good and Forbidding the Evil in Saudi Arabia pledges to take the necessary actions against any girl or woman who has eyes which provoke fitna."

Shaykh Mutliq al-Nabit said, "The Council will compel the owner of those eyes to cover them up," pointing out that the Council "has the right to do that." A Saudi citizen entered the hospital at the end of last year after suffering stab wounds in his hand and back after a fight with one of the members of the Council in the Barzan market of Ha'il, after a demand from one of the members of the Council that he cover up the eyes of his wife who was with him at the time.

The District Court in Ha'il issued a ruling which justified the member of the Council and condemned the husband and a man who was with him for assault (behaving arrogantly towards another). The first was condemned to 8 months in prison and 300 lashes dispersed over 6 sessions. The second was condemned to 18 months in prison and 700 lashes dispersed over 10 sessions.