Saudi Woman Divorcing Husband for Sneaking a Peek to Look at Her Face

1. JET
   May 20th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

   Sounds like an urban legend that’s made its way into the paper (which happens often enough). There’s nothing in Middle Eastern culture that says that the husband shouldn’t be allowed to see his wife’s face or body, quite the opposite. The wife should dress in nice clothes and may even wear lingerie for the husband when they are alone.

2. denara
   May 20th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

   It is a local tradition, not a wide-spread one:

   “But always remaining veiled - even in front of your husband - is not an Islamic practice, but a very old tradition practised by a tiny minority of women in remote areas of Gulf countries.”

3. heartsauce
   May 20th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

   JET, did you even read the article?

   “But always remaining veiled - even in front of your husband - is not an Islamic practice, but a very old tradition practised by a tiny minority of women in remote areas of Gulf countries.”

4. Jerse
   May 20th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

   I agree with JET - I’ve never heard of this and it’s coming from a iffy newspaper too. MailOnline?

   They report on people crying at funerals:
   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1020757/Rangers-legend-McCoist -weeps-Celtic-hero-Tommy-Burns.html

   Better take this article with a grain of salt…

5. CheeseDuck
   May 20th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

   Ehh..

6. Idil
   May 20th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

   Yeah that’s definitely nothing to do with religion. Or they’re taking it too far… wayyyy too far.

7. ted
   May 20th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

   Granted it is the Daily Mail, always looking for the weird and exotic Islamic traditions. But this doesn’t sound too far out of line for a society that requires women to cover their faces in public.

   As for comparing it with coverage of people crying at funerals, are you saying that story’s false, Jerse?

8. Yoda
   May 20th, 2008 at 9:32 pm

   @ted

   Well, I did a little research and the Daily Mail is the biggest tabloid in the UK - and I just pointed out the story about people crying at funerals because of how ridiculous the title of the article is - and how it reflects the absurdity of the entire paper…

   But you don’t care if this article’s not true - it just gives you more to work with now doesn’t it, ted?

9. Christophe
   May 20th, 2008 at 10:54 pm

   So many possibilities for a caption monkey!

   Don’t look at my face, I’m a brainwashed robot.

   Don’t look at my face, I’m a man.

   Don’t look at my face, I’m your father Luke

10. Evil Pundit
    May 20th, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    People crying at funerals? Madness! That never happens.

11. Archbob
    May 20th, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    This is one tradition that probably needs to go.

12. jmm
    May 20th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    The Daily Mail is famously conservative but not necessarily disreputable. “Tabloid” refers to the format of the paper, not its content (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_newspaper).

    Also, was this post written while you were drunk or something? The phrases “a nother strange news” and “the first case this ever happened” aren’t exactly great writing. Your other post was pretty bad too (”Notice that the sand don’t mound up, as if there is a giant hole underneath that just churn up the sand particles”).

13. sam
    May 21st, 2008 at 2:25 am

    Anyone want to send it in to Snopes?

14. ted
    May 21st, 2008 at 6:24 am

    You’re now Yoda, Jerse?

    More to work with? I don’t think so. What are you accusing me of?

    If you had pointed out that the Daily Mail is a tabloid with a tendency to exaggerate stories that put Islamic people in a bad light, I would have agreed with you, but still pointed out that it wouldn’t make this story any less possible. I am sure there are situations like this in Saudi Arabia, just as much as there are weird polygamists in Utah.

    You may note I am very generous with my salt-taking, and often call things into question here. Don’t even try to paint me as racist because my opinions are different from yours. The real Yoda was never like that.

15. Pol x
    May 21st, 2008 at 7:14 am

    nah, this is nonsense.

    It’s tosh.

    I live near Dewsbury west yorkshire, and it’s like Islamabad around here but the women all remove the veil in their own homes.

    I saw a few musliom women having their pictures taken in a photo booth at the super market, and 2 stood out side whilst the third handed out the veil and had her pic taken. Then they swapped around.

    They are for the most part perfectly ordinary people who just have some odd ideas.

16. Yoda
    May 21st, 2008 at 8:25 am

    @ted

    Not Jerse but Yoda, I am now…

    And face it, your painting yourself as a racist when you say stuff like “weird and exotic Islamic traditions” - if you say it’s not racist (or religionist?) then would you say the same about the polygamists with “weird and exotic Christian traditions”?

    It’s just bad connotations all around, man…

17. jamie
    May 21st, 2008 at 10:00 am

    Assuming for conversations sake that it is true, I wonder how the husband didn’t accidentally see the wife’s face after that many years of marriage. Seems like it would take quite an effort to pull that off.

18. Evil Pundit
    May 21st, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    Newsflash: Islam is not a race.

    Also, some Christians have weird and exotic traditions.

19. ted
    May 21st, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    Thanks, Evil Pundit. I thought that was clear, but Jerse only interprets things in the way he wants to. Notice how I brought up the whole polygamy bit, but he tries to use it against me.

    I wouldn’t call polygamy “exotic” - that would probably dignify it somehow. A weird Christian tradition would be seeing the Virgin Mary everywhere. Exotic would be maybe finding her on your scraped leg after a motorcycle accident.

    Islam has weird and exotic traditions, just as Buddhism, Christianity, and Jewish beliefs have. The Daily Mail likes to capitalize on the Islamic ones because that’s what’s popular among its readers.

20. Thomas
    May 22nd, 2008 at 2:18 am

    I wouldn’t call seeing the virgin mary everywhere a tradition, more like a hobby.

21. MoonCake
    May 22nd, 2008 at 6:57 am

    i’m with you, ted. ALL religions have some weird traditions… and among weird traditions are even weirder people taking those practices out of context and making new traditions “in the name of the lord” or whoever. this is why i’m against all religions– none of them can be correct when so many of their devotees don’t even follow their own doctrines. it’s hypocritical and against the idea of religion in the first place.

    @pol x: yes, but you don’t live IN saudi arabia around the few women who practice these extreme views, and you will most likely never see them– even in what you call the ‘islamibad’ of england. not only are these views so uncommonly practiced, they’re not likely practiced in other countries that don’t share them at all. just because you haven’t seen anyone who fits this description among the other social muslims in england doesn’t really allow you to cast it off as tosh, or nonsense. it’s just like saying “i’m not a homophobe- i have gay friends.”

22. Sun river
    August 11th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    Nonsense ! I ‘m Saudi Girl . That’s story is very odd even for Saudis .We have our traditions but covering face in front of your husband isnt one of them . Be fair guys when it concerns about Arabs especially Saudis.

23. Mustafa
    January 29th, 2009 at 7:44 am

    LOL. I’m a Muslim from Saudi Arabia. Women are even more seductive to their husbands here even more than elsewhere . There is NO Islamic rule WHATSOEVER that tells such a stupid. Even the most religious Muslims ever, are allowed “and do” take a nude bath with their spouses. Women are NOT objects in Islam, thus they don’t go stripping around, however they are allowed AND required to satisfy their own and their husbands sexual desires in the best proper way BOTH of them agree on..

    Regards,
    Mustafa

24. dowite
    March 29th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    saudi women would never stop u fondling thier boobs or fingering thier pussies..if coming to hospital while seen by male doctors..but u will be husked away even if u attempt little to see thier faces…

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