Dr. Ali Alrubai

A Saudi writer was arrested in the city of Baha in Saudi Arabia where he was questioned, finger printed and photographed after the president of the baha literary club charged him with calling for the liberation of women. The writer Dr. Ali Alrubai was attending a lecture by a female intellectual, the lecture, as lectures involving men and women usually are, done in two separate lecture halls to separate the men and women and an audio broadcast is provided from the women’s section and a video broadcast is provided from the men’s section to the other section. During the discussion after the lecture Dr. Ali suggested that future lectures done by females be accompanied by a visual presentation to make the lecture more lively. This angered the head of the club as blasphemy and reported the matter to the police claiming that Dr. Ali is demanding that a video be broadcast from the women’s section to the men’s section which is a call for the corruption of Saudi culture, traditions and Islamic law. Dr. Ali denied the accusations as he only asked for visual presentation accompanying the lecture and not a live feed feed from the women’s section.

Source Alarabiya.net

Commentary

Now this is clearly crap and only an example of how far Saudi Arabia needs to move to pass the middle ages. When the head of an intellectual club uses the police to impose his dark ages ideas and the police supports him.

I’ll keep my eye out for any developments if they are reported on the matter although I think this is the end of it.

Commentary

So I’m not  big fan of how women are treated in the Arab world overall. However, I do have a problem with this report. My first problem is the images from TV shows they are using as examples. I never followed any of those show but have seen an episode or two of each as well as i got my fill from my mom talking about them. Two of the shows are historical fiction and even though they are fiction they are based on history and women should only be petrayed in that historical content. Should these series turn into a fantasy and show the women as they would have never been at the time? If you need an example bring something from modern time and I’m sure you can find a few. Now there are another two series shown, one I have no idea about the other I do a bit. What they don’t show in the one I do know about is the fact that there are women that work and have a great life with thier men and the man beating is an example of a man that has been manipilated and turned into an evil person and has nothing to do with viloance against women. Simply put the samples they used are a bunch of ****.