Saudi Police Issue Warning to Women on Swings
- 10 years ago
A photo stemming from a recent incident shows Saudi Arabia’s religious police confronting several women who were sitting on swings.
The idea of how women should live their lives greatly varies, depending on both location and religion. A photo stemming from a recent incident has gone viral.
It shows Saudi Arabia’s religious police confronting several women who were sitting on swings. While the photo itself isn’t controversial, the story behind it is stirring up some intense dialogue.
It seems the females had been enjoying a day outside swinging on the playground set. While they swung, several men walked towards them in the Gulf Kingdom public park.
They turned out to be the officers, who surrounded the women and gave them a warning about using the swings. The picture of the conversing group first spread around social media networks, but the local papers soon picked up the story.
Of those who supported the move, many of them cited women on swings prompted men to bother and possibly harass them. In the other camp, offended netizens believed the religious police overstepped their boundaries in this case, as the warning equaled “unjustified interference and repression of women.”
The idea of how women should live their lives greatly varies, depending on both location and religion. A photo stemming from a recent incident has gone viral.
It shows Saudi Arabia’s religious police confronting several women who were sitting on swings. While the photo itself isn’t controversial, the story behind it is stirring up some intense dialogue.
It seems the females had been enjoying a day outside swinging on the playground set. While they swung, several men walked towards them in the Gulf Kingdom public park.
They turned out to be the officers, who surrounded the women and gave them a warning about using the swings. The picture of the conversing group first spread around social media networks, but the local papers soon picked up the story.
Of those who supported the move, many of them cited women on swings prompted men to bother and possibly harass them. In the other camp, offended netizens believed the religious police overstepped their boundaries in this case, as the warning equaled “unjustified interference and repression of women.”