Saudi cleric: Prohibit women from using air conditioning

Washington Times:

A man who claimed to be a Salafist-Wahhibist cleric put the word out on Twitter that women should not flip on air conditioners at home because it sends the signal they’re home and that could lead to moral depravities.

The cleric said “turning on the cooler ventilator is prohibited for women in the absence of their husbands [because] the woman’s act is very dangerous, and may bring about immorality in the society. When she turns the cooler on, someone may notice her presence home, and this might bring about immorality,” International Business Times reported.

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Salafists and Wahhibists are the ultra-conservatives of Sunni Muslims, hail from Saudi Arabia, and issue frequent fatwas — clerical rulings on Islamic law, IBT reported. In April, another cleric claiming to belong to the Salafist sect posted a YouTube video claiming rape of non-Sunni and non-Muslim women was acceptable, according to the Koran.

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5 Replies to “Saudi cleric: Prohibit women from using air conditioning”

  1. Men wear cool white garments while women must wear a stifling black sack when they leave the house. Now they can sweat at home too. Such gallantry.

  2. It seems to bother Salafists that somewhere out there, there may be a Muslim woman not completely in the utter control of a Muslim man, and not absolutely invisible..

  3. In a sane world theocratic idiots like these men with their moronic edicts would be carted off to the loony bin