Arab Women's Responses to Saudi Cleric Criticizing "Flamboyant" Abayas

[Debater Slayer]

A Saudi cleric tweeted criticizing "flamboyant" abayas and discouraging women from wearing them. Some Arab women decided to respond in their own way:

Muslim scholar Sheikh Mohamad Al Arefe caused quite a stir on social media late on Tuesday after he posted a tweet stating that it is "haram" for women to wear flamboyant hijabs and abayas.

The Saudi Arabian scholar is followed by over seventeen million people on Twitter and many of the women following him aren't too happy with the latest "advice"... to say the least.

Who knew fatwas about "flamboyant" abayas could be so delicious?

 

[Revoltingest]

A Saudi cleric tweeted criticizing "flamboyant" abayas and discouraging women from wearing them. Some Arab women decided to respond in their own way:



Who knew fatwas about "flamboyant" abayas could be so delicious?

I'd been wondering when this issue would surface.
What is the sartorial sultan's opinion of Hawaiian shirts?

 

[Debater Slayer]

I'd been wondering when this issue would surface.

It has come up many times, but I haven't seen backlash to it surface as much as now. Then again, it's highly likely that many were already tired of it long ago and the Internet has merely given them a venue to express that now.

What is the sartorial sultan's opinion of Hawaiian shirts?

I'll let you know if I ever wear one on a Saudi street.

 

[Revoltingest]

I'll let you know if I ever wear one on a Saudi street.

I have a recommendation, but it would be pricey because it's a scarce & iconic vintage pattern.....

 

[Debater Slayer]

I have a recommendation, but it would be pricey because it's a scarce & iconic vintage pattern.....

I was expecting a bacon-themed one and getting ready to tell you it's haram, but now I can't.

(Still not wearing that though.)

 

[SabahTheLoner]

I like the one where she said her abaya was white and plain so it's okay to wear since it's pure.

I wonder how many men labeling clothing like that as haram are actually perverted. It's still covering the woman. It seems strange how in Islamic countries women are supposed to be appealing to men but they can't show their appeal in public. Exactly like toys with one purpose for horny men.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

All I can say is that it's your own fault if you get raped if you're wearing a showy hijab. Nothing gets a man's blood hot faster than a slutty head covering.

 

[sun rise]

Women are getting less and less willing to listen to what men tell them - just ask my wife. It's time for women's opinions to matter as much as men's opinions. Past time.

But to me, @Revoltingest would as usual be haram with some exceptions due to his terrible sartorial and culinary choices.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

A Saudi cleric tweeted criticizing "flamboyant" abayas and discouraging women from wearing them. Some Arab women decided to respond in their own way:



Who knew fatwas about "flamboyant" abayas could be so delicious?

Good on them!
Hey, question from ignorance...does this (the dates) carry any weight? Would at least some women be changing their wardrobes, or being asked to by husbands?
Or is it as much of a joke as it would be in the west?

 

[The Holy Bottom Burp]

Go on ladies I say, it is about time you started asserting yourselves against these ignorant old misogynistic religious stiffs. I live in a multicultural part of England, I see women wandering around wearing burkas on a fairly regular basis. I find it slightly depressing tbh, I may be mistaken but I tend to think "there goes a woman with self esteem issues, peering out through the 'generously large' slit in her headwear the religious men in her life deem appropriate". Self esteem issues drilled into her from childhood by her parents who underwent the same indoctrination themselves. Religion is a wonderful thing!

 

[Debater Slayer]

Good on them!
Hey, question from ignorance...does this (the dates) carry any weight? Would at least some women be changing their wardrobes, or being asked to by husbands?
Or is it as much of a joke as it would be in the west?

Sorry if I'm being slow, but I'm not sure what you mean there. Would you mind clarifying?

 

[Valjean]

I like the one where she said her abaya was white and plain so it's okay to wear since it's pure.

I wonder how many men labeling clothing like that as haram are actually perverted. It's still covering the woman. It seems strange how in Islamic countries women are supposed to be appealing to men but they can't show their appeal in public. Exactly like toys with one purpose for horny men.

It seems to me that, in the Kingdom at least, women are supposed to be invisible to men. I'm reminded of those black bars you see on TV or in the tabloids, placed over the naughty bits of some wardrobe challenged celebrity. Abayas turn women into walking black bars -- when they get permission to leave the house, of course.

Apparently Arab men are so easily aroused that even a glimpse of hair is likely to send them into an uncontrollable sexual frenzy.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Sorry if I'm being slow, but I'm not sure what you mean there. Would you mind clarifying?

Bahahahahaha...
It should have read 'the fatwas'. Apparently my phone didn't know the word and 'corrected' it for me without me noticing.