POLL: The Boy or The Ladies?
Bikya Masr reports that three women were arrested on Tuesday in Kuwait for not wearing any clothing underneath their abayas.
The women were arrested at a cafe after a young boy told his mother that the women were not wearing any clothes under their abayas. Two of the women were from an unidentified Gulf country, while the other was a Kuwaiti citizen. One of the three is a minor.
Al Arabiya based on Al-Rai says that the three women told police that the night before they had gotten drunk and engaged in sexual activity.
The father of the two Gulf nationals was contacted by Kuwaiti police, however, he told the police that he was “too busy” to deal with the situation.
As of now, the charges against the women are unclear. Marwa Tarek, a human rights activist, told Bikya Masr that if the three are charged with being lesbians then “they could be facing years in prison if the accusations they had consensual sex are proven true.”
Yet, Tarek also made an interesting point:
The boy was probably peeking underneath and then told his mother. It is the boy who should be in trouble, not the three women who did nothing wrong except be in public. I know a lot of women who often wear nothing underneath their abaya because it is so hot and nobody can see.
So, who do you think is at fault? If your vote is other, please explain in the comments.
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I voted Other.
Clearly it was the fault of the Jooooooooos!
Winner!
When I was in Kuwait it was always amusing to see (whils pretending to avert our eyes) these women dressed in Abayas coming out of La Senza with bags full of underwear.
You had to wonder, firstly, what the hell do they wear under an Abaya and whether the underwear was for them or their husbands, like an unseen act of rebellion.
I also voted “other” but I have to confess I wasn’t quick-witted enough to recognize the default answer to all the world’s problems as “the Jews.” I was thinking the backward oppressive Kuwaiti modesty laws are really at fault here.
I did not think of it either until BoL posted.
Seriously? I don’t know why you bothered with the other two options on the poll. Just stick it up again with a box labeled Jooooooos!
Next time.
this is nothing new a lot of women do not wear underclothes due to heat,some less than others.
the women should have rebuked the mother for the childs actions and why was the child permitted to be in a position away from the mothers side,and how come the women did not spot him.
seems like the mother needs some instruction on what she should teach her children not to do.
a good slap from the mother for the child and sorry to the women.
also it seems a little stupid for the women to make the confesions,they are reported to have done,when it does seem fairly clear it’s a parent/child fault.
if an honest survey could be taken throughout lets say the middle east/africa,among all sections of the population who are forced or wish to wear,less revealing clothing the amount without full/any under-clothes would be a lot higher than expected.
it’s nothing new, for people to be shocked by being modest does not have to relate to normally un-seen clothing,it depends on how much/little the person them-selves feel is acceptable to them,as the public do not see the females private areas of her body.