[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Saudi holy man caused massive controversy this week when he said on a prominent television program that contrary to what some Moslems believe, women are NOT required to wear the niqab (face veil) and are allowed to use make-up and other beauty products.
To further strengthen his argument, Sheikh Ahmad al-Ghamidi brought his wife UNVEILED to last Saturday's "Badria," a talk show hosted by the renowned Saudi media personality Badria al-Bishr on Al Arabiya's sister channel, MBC. (Episode can be watched here).
Ghamdi, who is a former head of the Holy City of Makkah's branch of the Saudi Committee for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (commonly known as the Religious Police), was discussing a fatwa (religious edict) which he had issued previously, permitting women to show their faces and wear make-up. |