Saudi Arabia: Women Arrested After Running on Stage to Hug a Male Singer During Concert

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A woman who rushed a stage to hug a male singer in Saudi Arabi has been detained and may face charges of harassment. But her real crime, according to the religious authorities who are considering her case, was that she violated strict sharia rules the require segregation between men and women.

Such is the freedom of Islam.

Singer Majid al-Mohandis

What’s even more interesting here is that there were no protests against this crown prince of Saudi Arabia when he was welcomed with open arms in the United Kingdom. Talk about hypocrisy. These same United Kingdom political players who hate President Donald Trump with such venom and call him a misogynist and racist are curiously OK with a country that arrests women for hugging men.

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From MSN:

A woman in Saudi Arabia has been arrested after running on stage to hug a male singer during a concert, according to reports.

Majid al-Mohandis was performing at a festival in the western city of Taif when the woman darted on to the stage.

Videos posted online showed her holding on to Mr Mohandis while security staff tried to pull her off him.

Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to mix in public with men who are unrelated to them.

Mr Mohandis, whose website says is “the prince of Arab singing”, has not commented on the incident. The Iraqi-born singer, who also has Saudi citizenship, continued to perform after the incident.

A public prosecutor will now consider harassment charges against the woman, police told Okaz, a leading Saudi newspaper, and Efe news agency.

The country has strict morality laws regarding alcohol prohibition, modest clothing and gender segregation.

Restrictions that had long been placed on women attending public events in the kingdom have been relaxed in the past year under a series of reforms by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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Vision 2030, unveiled last year, aims to increase household spending on cultural and entertainment activities in the oil-dependent kingdom from 2.9% to 6% by 2030.

Women were allowed to attend a concert and a football match for the first time on the same weekend, and the kingdom also hosted its first concert by a female singer, Lebanese star Hiba Tawaji, in December. Women were also allowed to drive from last month.

But significant restrictions remain in place and women still have to adhere to strict dress codes. The unnamed women seen hugging Mr Mohandis was wearing a niqab, a headdress that shows only the eyes.

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

why blame them ? Its islamic country and the fact that women are allowed to attend a concert and drive a car to it is itself revolutionary. Breaching security and ppl going to meet performer onstage without permission is not allowed in most countries.

what about feminazis in the west ? Most Left/Liberal feminazis can’t handle woman who is more beautiful and/or a conservative .

Here’s another case of woman banned from instagram by Left/Liberal feminazis because she was too hot and sexy Banned For Triggering Feminazis http://bit.ly/2v09Kyv

MAS
MAS
5 years ago

It’s difficult to follow the rules when there are so many of them. It’s even more confusing when some of the rules begin to change but there is no consistency in application. This woman is an example of someone who longs to express normal human emotions in a society ruled by an inhuman religion…

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago
Reply to  MAS

This is common sense though…you do not rush the performing stage or field.

MAS
MAS
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

When you’ve been oppressed for centuries and then, finally, you’re allowed to attend a concert (perhaps even driving yourself there) maybe a bit of not understanding the new boundaries could be understandable. You and I live in the civilized world and it’s easy for us to project, try a mile in her shoes. Maybe you could define Saudi Arabian burka common sense for us…

MitchHill
MitchHill
5 years ago

Moral inequivalent, it’s illegal for woman to hug an unrelated man but legal for a man to rape a women deemed an infidel.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  MitchHill

Or have a few sex slaves. That’s okay too!

MitchHill
MitchHill
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yup their world is not about making something out of nothing (which takes brains, ingenuity and hard work)example Israel ,it’s always about stealing someone else’s property, money , and wife in order to advance. The only thing the muz lim will understand is ther own death, they have no problem or guilt about killing anybody else because their religion of convenience says it’s ok .

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

…or hug and screw goats. That’s okay as well!

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago

I fail to see the problem here. This would result in an arrest in 50 states in the USA, plus DC, too for unauthorized presence on a performing stage or surface.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

“…unauthorized presence on a performing stage or surface.” LOL, what PC section is that? Or is it a federal statute?

aemoreira1981
aemoreira1981
5 years ago

Or trespass.

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
5 years ago
Reply to  aemoreira1981

But their will be a “slight” difference in punishments. Maybe we will learn of hers if she survives.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Who in their right mind would want to visit Saudi Arabia?
We sure wouldn’t. It’s too constrained and backwards.
You could get arrested fro holding your spouse’s hand and I am referring to a NORMAL heterosexual married couple!

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
5 years ago

Saudi Arabia/Islamic nations; and the times they are not changin’. Islam will never evolve, women will remain, second-class citizens, sex-slavery, rape of Infidel women, misogynism, mass-murder, the eternal enemy Israel/Jews, and the destruction of Israel and Western Civilization, the latter is a success. Israel, however, will never succumb to the Islamic scourge, unlike the spineless West.

AlgorithmicAnalyst
AlgorithmicAnalyst
5 years ago

Interesting psychological breakdown the girl had.

Scott
Scott
5 years ago

hang, draw and quarter the whore, then burn her corpse into the ground.

deepkimchi
deepkimchi
5 years ago
Reply to  Scott

You may have your way with her between draw and quarter. Between quarter and burn if you like it fancy.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  deepkimchi

LOL. He probably would too.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Isn’t a male singer haram?

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

I think playing with instruments is also haraam.

AlfaBravo
AlfaBravo
5 years ago

Women in Arab states require carry their own long blades, sorts. The long knives must be very sharp. This is not to upset the executioner, when he cuts her head off. Respect is on high, very high agenda.

deepkimchi
deepkimchi
5 years ago

I took this lady I didn’t know very well on a date back in the eighties. We went to dinner then to a local bar to see a very well regarded local band. It was SRO and the crowd was really getting into it. Suddenly, she ran up to the stage and tried to hug and kiss the lead singer. His goons were on her like a duck on a june bug. I high-tailed it out the door. Fortunately, I never saw her again.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Hugging a man she doesn’t know!! It’s practically adultery! Stone the witch, er adulterer!

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

Wow, Saudi Arabia’s reforms sure seem to be coming along very slowly…

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

The rockstar phenomenon comes to Soddy Barbaria. I wonder what the subject material of his songs are? The greater glory of allah? Killing the unbeliever in islum? Destruction of the kafir world? Dar al islum?

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