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OP - March 30, 2013, 08:02 PM

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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is to license women's sports clubs for the first time, al-Watan daily reported, in a major step for an ultra-religious country where clerics have warned against female exercise.
Last year the conservative Islamic kingdom, where women must have permission from a male relative to take many big decisions, sent women athletes to the Olympics for the first time after pressure from international rights groups.
Until now, women's exercise facilities, including gyms, have had to be licensed by the Health Ministry and designated as "health centers".
Last April Watan, owned by a Saudi prince, reported the government had set up a ministerial committee to allow women's sports clubs. The General Presidency of Youth Welfare, which functions like a sports ministry, only regulates men's clubs.
In 2009 a member of the country's highest council of clerics said girls should not play sports lest they "lose their virginity" by tearing their hymens. State-run girls' schools do not have exercise classes.
Watan said on Friday the Interior Ministry had decided to allow women's sports clubs after reviewing a study that showed flaws in the existing system.

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Wow what an accomplishment in the year 2013. At this rate we can expect women's equality in SA by the year 3030 C.E.
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Reply #1 - March 31, 2013, 10:33 PM

These things aren't supposed to be news in 2013! ugh, but still good for the women I guess.
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Reply #2 - April 01, 2013, 01:08 AM

That's hilarious, lose their virginity..... XD level of stupidity is beyond words..

those guys should worship the hymen XD how glorious that piece of flesh is, oh how it defines the woman...that beautiful thing....so precious, so precious...life must revolve around it.....

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Reply #3 - April 01, 2013, 05:20 AM

I guess every time a virgin's hymen breaks accidentally, a SA man dies

Or else why would the be so infatuated with it to the point of worshiping it like a cult
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Reply #4 - April 01, 2013, 05:26 AM

Yeah, they'd rather their women sit in the house and grow fat and diabetic due to poor diet and lack of exercise. Don't these clowns know that a more physically fit woman will produce healthier children? Since baby-making is the end-all, be-all for many Muslim women. And no, pushing the vacuum cleaner around the house does not constitute proper exercise.

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Reply #5 - April 01, 2013, 12:08 PM

What if a woman in the middle east lost her virginity when she fell off a horse, would they stone her for adultery? Just crossed my mind.
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Reply #6 - April 01, 2013, 12:16 PM

one baby step for SA men, one giant leap for SA women....one hopes anyway.

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Reply #7 - April 01, 2013, 01:59 PM

I wonder how much net energy is wasted--mental, physical, and financial--on Saudi Arabia's insane obsession with sex.
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Reply #8 - April 01, 2013, 03:54 PM

I think it was 2005, I was on the bus, listening to the radio and it was being said that women in Saudi were now allowed to be the owners of their businesses rather than have their dad's, brother's names on it. That country's progress is so excruciatingly SLOW.
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Reply #9 - April 01, 2013, 10:22 PM

Quote from: Mrs. Derp on April 01, 2013, 12:08 PM
What if a woman in the middle east lost her virginity when she fell off a horse, would they stone her for adultery? Just crossed my mind.

The bigger question is - what was she doing on the horse in the first place? Hmmm??
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Reply #10 - April 02, 2013, 12:27 AM

ahhahaha good question
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