Where men cannot see even their wives or sisters
About a year ago, I read about a place in Saudi Arabia where there is so much segregation of the sexes that men have never seen the faces of their wives, nor their sisters. This seemed a bit outlandish, so I wrote to a woman’s group in Jordan asking them if this was true. They never replied, so I assume that this kind of thing is not rare in that part of the world.
I thought how would a man identify his wife’s body if the police called him and showed him many dead women who had died in an accident? How would a man know that the woman calling him from across the street is his sister?
Maybe the men and women don’t talk much over there (not a bad idea, I know Pakistan would be a much better place if some politicians and religious leaders kept their mouths shut all the time). But it looks like there are other places where this kind of thing is common. You can imagine my amazement when I read recently that the first president of India (Dr. Rajendra Prasad, a Hindu from Bihar) belonged to a village where men were not allowed to see their wives or talk to them in the daytime. Apparently they didn’t see each other in the night also, since that place is the most backward in India, where even today many villages don’t have electricity.
It seems that the world is full of strange people.
Other posts by Shakir Lakhani
- No limit on foreign exchange taken out of Pakistan - November 12th, 2008
- Some questions about the "forex" scandal - November 11th, 2008
- Enjoying life after sixty - November 7th, 2008
- A Hussein in the White House - November 5th, 2008
- Why are poor Pakistanis always punished? - October 31st, 2008
- Pakistan's Economic Crisis: we're responsible - October 29th, 2008
- How Wall Street operates - October 23rd, 2008
- We’ll always have corruption - October 19th, 2008
- If Pakistan goes to war with United States of America - October 9th, 2008
- Killing of Christians in Secular India - October 1st, 2008
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February 5th, 2008 21:29 GMT
u definitely r not from this planet. wierdo!
sheesh! talk abt making stories up!
ever been to saudia or just heard that there is such a place around…=?
February 5th, 2008 21:34 GMT
by the way, apologies for the rude reply…
February 5th, 2008 23:33 GMT
Saudi - where men can’t see their wives and sisters
Rest of the world - where men can see other peoples’s wives and sisters.
LOL
February 5th, 2008 23:49 GMT
Mr Atif Abdul-Rahman, I’m not a weirdo. Please go to the website www.Dawn.com and read the net edition of 21st August 2005 where you can read the article “Saudi women keeping up bizarre tradition”. But I read it even earlier in the Khaleej Times”.
February 6th, 2008 05:18 GMT
It is a complete bunch of lies.
February 6th, 2008 05:36 GMT
First of all i don’t see a reason behind this post. You find an article that is a bunch of lies and decide to write a post on it. Lets say for a second that there is truth in it, even then, what is your purpose of mentioning it? Are you trying to tell the world the extent that extremists are willing to go to. Yes, we know all about it.
However, i read the article on the website and had a good laugh because some retards don’t even know how to invent lies. As, we read in an authors post, an anti-quran film is about to be released. These people hate Islam. They always have, they always will. Before that there were cartoons of Rasulullah. Do you not see their poison and hatred for Islam.
With all due respect Sir, open your eyes.
February 7th, 2008 14:13 GMT
Mr. Yusha, please try to find out why those guys have this custom of not seeing the faces of their wives and sisters. If it is not true, please come up with proof. I am still convinced these people exist, but I would like to know why they are such psychos.
February 7th, 2008 14:46 GMT
AoA h r u guys,,,, Shakir Lakhani yaar wives n sis un ki hain wo dekhin na dekhin app ko kiya prob hai … apni fikar karo k app kiya kar rahay ho…her koi dosro ko pointout karta hai koi khud ko b dekhay k vo khud kya hai….
February 7th, 2008 21:24 GMT
Do you have proof it’s true?