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Saudi cleric says it's haram for women to be angered by polygamy

"A woman should support her husband in treating her and his other wives fairly"

2018-10-05
By Mariam Nabbout

Saudi cleric Abdullah al-Mutlaq sparked controversy on Twitter earlier this week after a statement in which he encouraged men to take second wives went viral.

The Islamic scholar, who is an advisor to the kingdom's royal court, made the statement on state television program "Fatawi" (Religious Edicts) during a segmentin which he was asked about solutions to spinsterhood.

"Some women don't help men in treating their multiple wives fairly and equally. The moment she learns her husband is about to take a second wife or already did, she goes crazy," he said.

The cleric went on to say that a woman's shock or anger in reaction to her husband taking a second wife is considered "haram" (unacceptable in Islam.)

"This is not acceptable, it's haram. I swear to God on this, I've seen women who refused to stay in marriages after their husbands took second wives. I'd ask them to wait and give their husbands a chance and they wouldn't accept that," he added.

Concluding his statement, Al-Mutlaq added that instead of being envious of their husbands' new wives, women should ask God to bless their partners' second marriages.

The cleric's statement has been making the rounds on Saudi Twitter for the past two days, dividing tweeps along the way.

While some believe nothing is wrong with the scholar's statement, others are outraged by his misogynistic rhetoric.

• The cleric claimed 'women instigate men to rape and assault them'
• Saudi authorities earlier banned a planned pop concert by an Egyptian woman

By Darren Boyle for MailOnline
PUBLISHED: 10:34 EDT, 19 October 2017

A hard-line Saudi preacher has claimed women are to blame for their own rapes and are the 'cause of harassment and adultery'.

Ahmed Bin Saad Al Qarni delivered his abhorrent sermon on Twitter where he claimed 'women instigate men to rape and assault them'.

In one video he posted online, Al Qarni claimed 'look at the woman in this video, she made the men go mad. Don't blame men.'

According to StepFeed.com, the cleric said: 'If he rapes her, she'll come home crying over her dignity. I swear to God, women are the cause of harassment and adultery. Look at the woman in this video, she's the one who stopped the man driving the vehicle, and she's the one who got into the car with him.'

He continued: 'A woman who leaves her house wearing make-up and perfume is an adulteress. A good woman who's wearing a kitchen apron will never leave her house looking like that. Don't blame men.'

This controversy comes days after Saudi officials cancelled a fundraising concert for children with cancer by an Egyptian female singer called Sherine, who is know for her rags-to-riches story.

The General Entertainment Authority said the concert was cancelled because the event's organizer failed to apply for a license to hold such an event.

However, conservatives in Saudi Arabia had launched a Twitter campaign against the concert.

The kingdom has loosened the reins on fun after a two-decade-long ban on concerts, but so far only for male singers.

Under the kingdom's strict dress code, women must wear long, loose robes in public. Most cover their hair and face too.

King Salman last month announced that women would be permitted to drive in the kingdom.

The lifting of the driving ban has been widely credited to 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who styles himself as a moderniser in the conservative kingdom, where more than half the population is aged under 25.

Prince Mohammed has cracked down on dissent while also showing a rare willingness to tackle entrenched Saudi taboos such as promoting more women in the workforce

The reform is in line with the kingdom's Vision 2030 programme that seeks to elevate women to nearly one-third of the workforce, up from about 22 per cent now.

Authorities have highlighted the economic benefits of the reform as the kingdom reels from a protracted oil slump; Saudi families would no longer need foreign chauffeurs, often a major source of financial strain.

By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Friday, 14 February 2014

Are you defying your faith by celebrating Valentines’ Day?

According to controversial Saudi cleric Sheikh Mohammad al-Arifi, embracing the romantic occasion makes Muslims “resemble those who are immoral.”

The cleric, who last year called on Muslim youth to join the jihad (holy war) in Syria, while spending his holidays in European countries, added that “TV channels and other media outlets shouldn’t be promoting Valentine’s Day in any way,” Arifi wrote on his Twitter account on Wednesday.

Muslim clerics' anger delays Saudi plan to let women sell lingerie
By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor

Saudi Arabia has postponed plans to replace male sales staff in lingerie shops with women.

The move had been its first cautious attempt to bring more women into the work-place.

But even minor reforms have incurred the wrath of ultra-conservative religious leaders, such as the Grand Mufti Shaikh Abdel-Aziz al-Sheikh, who has denounced them as "steps towards immorality and hellfire".

In a country that requires women to cover up in public, and bans them from driving, shop assistants are invariably men - even in stores selling women's underwear and cosmetics. The kingdom's sole exceptions are the few all-female shopping centres.

King Abdallah's government last year ordered lingerie shop owners to hire all-female sales staff by next month. In 2007, the policy was to have been extended to stores selling dresses and abayas (the black robes worn by women for modesty).

The policy is being pushed by the Saudi labour minister, Ghazi Algosaibi, a former Saudi ambassador to Britain. But Mr Algosaibi has become a hate figure among puritanical Wahhabi clerics.

In an audio message last month, Osama bin Laden said he was a leading "heretic" who should be killed.