[nithhysfusy]

Modern Madness: Saudi Arabia Building Women-Only Cities
Thursday, August 09, 2012 – by Staff Report

Prince Turki Al Faisal

Saudi-Modon plans to establish women-only industrial cities ... Efforts are under way to establish the Kingdom's first women-only industrial city in the Eastern Province city of Hofuf. Saudi Industrial Property Authority (Modon) has initiated works for planning and development of the city. "We are now working on a second industrial city for women," said Saleh Al-Rasheed, acting director general of Modon. "We have plans to establish a number of women-only industries in various parts of the Kingdom," he added. Al-Rasheed said Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs Prince Mansour bin Miteb, has already allocated land for the first women-only industrial city in Hofuf. – Arab News

http://thedailybell.com/4167/Modern-...en-Only-Cities

[bredkumanfirst]

I'm sorry if this offends anyone but Saudis are so bizarre, really bizarre

[Hdzcxqoi]

السلام عليكم,

That article is a bit suspicious- this quote:
The industrial cities now comprise factories owned by women as well as companies with some production lines set aside for women makes it seem like the author has misunderstood the original source about what exactly a women-only "industrial city" means. It would certainly be weird for an entire actual city to be women-only. Clearly something was lost in translation, either intentionally or otherwise.

[Soypopetype]

I was talking to a friend in Saudi Arabia about this. He said that he hasn't heard of anything specifically related to this, but that they are planning to create a "new, industrial Riyadh". He said that they plan on building over 50 new industrial complexes, with over 150 employers. He suggested that some of the new industrial complexes would be women only, not a whole "city".

[rozneesitcn]

It sounds like you might be right

said Saleh Al-Rasheed, acting director general of Modon. "We have plans to establish a number of women-only industries in various parts of the Kingdom," he added.

However then it says this:

Al-Rasheed said Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs Prince Mansour bin Miteb, has already allocated land for the first women-only industrial city in Hofuf. – Arab News

So it sounds like mis-reporting or bad journalism or just a bad quote given by someone, or a mistranslation. I did not spot it so thanks to those that did.

[KaterinaNJq]

Modern Madness: Saudi Arabia Building Women-Only Cities
Thursday, August 09, 2012 – by Staff Report

Prince Turki Al Faisal

Saudi-Modon plans to establish women-only industrial cities ... Efforts are under way to establish the Kingdom's first women-only industrial city in the Eastern Province city of Hofuf. Saudi Industrial Property Authority (Modon) has initiated works for planning and development of the city. "We are now working on a second industrial city for women," said Saleh Al-Rasheed, acting director general of Modon. "We have plans to establish a number of women-only industries in various parts of the Kingdom," he added. Al-Rasheed said Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs Prince Mansour bin Miteb, has already allocated land for the first women-only industrial city in Hofuf. – Arab News

http://thedailybell.com/4167/Modern-...en-Only-Cities

Oh HumDuAllah Alluhu Akbar a place without men sounds like heaven to me. Think I'll move to that city and not have to worry about men. Pfffttt

[wrardymar]

Oh HumDuAllah Alluhu Akbar a place without men sounds like heaven to me. Think I'll move to that city and not have to worry about men. Pfffttt

I worked with non Muslim women who went to a all girls college and they said there were so many cat fights all the time it was terrible...it was a relief to join the real world again. All girl houses at university as well always have some kind of drama with girls falling out with each other.

[Obsententicab]

wow!

can anyone imagine how these people lived 1500 years ago?

but then again Allah (SW) had his wisdom to bring deen from that country...Imagine if the prophet were from Papua New Guinea...these people would not even convert

May Allah protect us all from this ignorance

[seicslybearee]

Salam Alaykum,

This is all realted to the hold of the modern economic theories and paradigms on the world. We as Muslims should first understand that the current economic system is extremely anti-Islamic (and then take measures to overcome it), and that any attempt to accomodate this situation is doomed to fail. It is just like the saga of "Muslim women in the Olympics", where the entire concept of the Olympics has to be rejected rather than to make accomodation towards seeing how Muslims (men or women) will participate in it.

Coming back to the topic at hand, consider the following article (http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columni...erty-1.1061946), which includes the following weird statement:

Clerics will say that Islam does not allow women and men to mix at work, while the rulers explain that segregation is part of Saudi culture. Yet Islamic feminists have pointed out time and time again, that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) himself was married to a businesswoman — with no need to hide in an all-women city. A culture that does not just segregate women, but enshrines in law that they are second-class citizens is hardly one worth preserving.

Putting aside the technicalities of women working alongside men and the fact that the porgressive nature of revelation is being ignored, note the use of the term "Islamic feminists"- it seems like a total oxymoron, such as "Muslim Christians" or some other such type of nonsense. Also worth noting is the phrase that Islamic culture is "hardly one worth preserving"- which would legitimize in the minds of tehreaders that Islam must be destroyed one way or the other.

Let us leave the clatter about whether "enshrining in law that women are second-class citizens" is equal to "Islamic culture", since we as Muslims proudly follow Islam, and Allah out of His Wisdom has given some duties, rights, responsibilities, and favor to one gender over the other in a number of matters - even if our enemies classify it as "treating women like children" or the like. Of course this is something that the unisex and metrosexual world order will never come to grips with, but that is another discussion in its own right.

[secondmortgagek]

I thought they are not building women only cities, rather they are building women only sections and industrial units?

Salam Alaykum,

This is all realted to the hold of the modern economic theories and paradigms on the world. We as Muslims should first understand that the current economic system is extremely anti-Islamic (and then take measures to overcome it), and that any attempt to accomodate this situation is doomed to fail. It is just like the saga of "Muslim women in the Olympics", where the entire concept of the Olympics has to be rejected rather than to make accomodation towards seeing how Muslims (men or women) will participate in it.

Coming back to the topic at hand, consider the following article (http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columni...erty-1.1061946), which includes the following weird statement:

Clerics will say that Islam does not allow women and men to mix at work, while the rulers explain that segregation is part of Saudi culture. Yet Islamic feminists have pointed out time and time again, that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) himself was married to a businesswoman — with no need to hide in an all-women city. A culture that does not just segregate women, but enshrines in law that they are second-class citizens is hardly one worth preserving.

Putting aside the technicalities of women working alongside men and the fact that the porgressive nature of revelation is being ignored, note the use of the term "Islamic feminists"- it seems like a total oxymoron, such as "Muslim Christians" or some other such type of nonsense. Also worth noting is the phrase that Islamic culture is "hardly one worth preserving"- which would legitimize in the minds of tehreaders that Islam must be destroyed one way or the other.

Let us leave the clatter about whether "enshrining in law that women are second-class citizens" is equal to "Islamic culture", since we as Muslims proudly follow Islam, and Allah out of His Wisdom has given some duties, rights, responsibilities, and favor to one gender over the other in a number of matters - even if our enemies classify it as "treating women like children" or the like. Of course this is something that the unisex and metrosexual world order will never come to grips with, but that is another discussion in its own right.

[yK2VgoEI]

^

Whichever way it is, it cannot be denied that there is a huge element of following the "global market economy" in this case. Also, the article on gulfnews was written on the basis of building "cities", but I wonder if the overall phraseology would have been so different had the author been talking about the building of "industrial sectors".

Bottom like is that even if we try to become like the disbelievers in a way which might please them - which is totally disallowed in many ways- they will still find ways to criticize us endlessly.

[Kragh]

I agree with you. Huge cities and towns are built because of the riba economy, central banks print money, this goes into the economy and boosts property development....however because of the debt and artificially high prices of property, no one actually buys them or rents them. Search for ghost cities in China and also in Ireland on google or you tube and you will huge cities that have been built and they are empty with no one living there. Crazy economics, Saudi is probably doing the same thing.

^

Whichever way it is, it cannot be denied that there is a huge element of following the "global market economy" in this case. Also, the article on gulfnews was written on the basis of building "cities", but I wonder if the overall phraseology would have been so different had the author been talking about the building of "industrial sectors".

Bottom like is that even if we try to become like the disbelievers in a way which might please them - which is totally disallowed in many ways- they will still find ways to criticize us endlessly.

[Clunlippibe]

Salam Alaykum,

This is all realted to the hold of the modern economic theories and paradigms on the world. We as Muslims should first understand that the current economic system is extremely anti-Islamic (and then take measures to overcome it), and that any attempt to accomodate this situation is doomed to fail. It is just like the saga of "Muslim women in the Olympics", where the entire concept of the Olympics has to be rejected rather than to make accomodation towards seeing how Muslims (men or women) will participate in it.

Coming back to the topic at hand, consider the following article (http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columni...erty-1.1061946), which includes the following weird statement:

Clerics will say that Islam does not allow women and men to mix at work, while the rulers explain that segregation is part of Saudi culture. Yet Islamic feminists have pointed out time and time again, that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) himself was married to a businesswoman — with no need to hide in an all-women city. A culture that does not just segregate women, but enshrines in law that they are second-class citizens is hardly one worth preserving.

Putting aside the technicalities of women working alongside men and the fact that the porgressive nature of revelation is being ignored, note the use of the term "Islamic feminists"- it seems like a total oxymoron, such as "Muslim Christians" or some other such type of nonsense. Also worth noting is the phrase that Islamic culture is "hardly one worth preserving"- which would legitimize in the minds of tehreaders that Islam must be destroyed one way or the other.

Let us leave the clatter about whether "enshrining in law that women are second-class citizens" is equal to "Islamic culture", since we as Muslims proudly follow Islam, and Allah out of His Wisdom has given some duties, rights, responsibilities, and favor to one gender over the other in a number of matters - even if our enemies classify it as "treating women like children" or the like. Of course this is something that the unisex and metrosexual world order will never come to grips with, but that is another discussion in its own right.

Yet another reason why the Saudi's and their Wahabi ideology are so unpopular with the great majority of us Muslims. This is the kind of patriarchal nonsense gives the rest of us Muslims a bad name. And I do not hesitate to condemn for what it is...misogyny.