Male Crossdressers Fight for Equal Rights in Women’s Paradise of Saudi Arabia
A Saudi Arabian man was arrested and executed last week for impersonating women, that incredibly fortunate class of Saudis. He was caught wearing a burqa, the only thing other than a niquab that women are allowed to wear in Saudi Arabia. The burqa is a dress that covers a woman from head to toe in order to hide her evil parts, which is her entire being, including her eyes, which can be so powerfully seductive in some cases as to render a man insensible. It is big and unshapely, making it so easy for a man to hide under that it is hard to know just how prevalent these crossdressers are. The Saudi Arabian government is cracking down as incidents of male crossdressing rise. Sources say this is due to the ease with which it can be accomplished. Also, the prospect of being treated like a female in an Islamic nation — for even just a little bit of time — is too tempting for many men to resist.
Any One of These Could Be a Dude
Abdul Mohamed Mahammed Ali Abdul, arrested in late January, was caught red-handed on the street because his burqa was just a tad too short. When too much of his leg showed, he began to be stoned to death by passersby and threw off the burqa to show he was really a man and therefore had no evil parts to hide, and so shouldn’t be stoned to death for not hiding them.
Unfortunately for him, it is also against the law to impersonate a Saudi woman — because of all the benefits they receive. In fact, it is a capital offense because of the intense religious feelings against men getting any of the usual perks that women get. (The strict penalty came in 1979 after an all-male, burqa-wearing protest.) Since it is so hard to catch a crossdressing man because the burka is so unshapley, they made the penalty of being caught very stiff as their only means of deterrent. The fear of reprisals is the only thing holding back most Saudi men from crossdressing on a regular basis. The only time a man may wear a burqa by law is to aid in perpetrating a terrorist attack. Many men sign up for these suicide missions just to escape their male prison.
I became a terrorist just so I could wear a burqa for a day, and get treated nice!
It is well-known that woman have special treatment and rights in Saudi Arabia. For example, they have a right to either walk or be chauffeured everywhere they go, whereas men must drive. They have a right to stay home and cook and clean for their husband, as opposed to men, who have to go out of the home to make friends and work and provide for themselves and their families. Additionally, women have the right to do what their husbands tell them to do.
In all fairness, they also have the right to remain silent.
In all fairness, they also have the right to remain silent.
If only the cast of The View would convert, I might actually see some benefit to Islam.
Abayas, not burqas, are worn in Saudi. Burqas are worn in Afghanistan, and are a different garment.
Both garments are UGLY! I can’t understand why anyone would willlingly put on such an ugly garment unless the men who do so are transexual then they have an overpowering need. We should help those to escape from their country and given a chance to be what they want. Or at least consider it.
The operative word here is “willingly”, and it’s not that simple to leave a country such as Saudi Arabia, where exit visas and spousal permission are required in order to depart.
Plus, the husband, in all probability, holds on to the woman’s passport, (if she even has one),and the woman might have little or no cash at her disposal anyway – and she likely has no idea where to go anyway, or what to do and how to support herself when she gets there.
Easy, it’s not.
You seem to have missed my point completely. It had very little to do with women (genetic females) and all about men (genetic males) who think they should be female.
Abayas, not burqas…
Yeah..thanks for the tip.
Like the fine distinction between a Stalinesque Police State, and a Nazi Police State…
One bullet in the head is SOOOO much better than the other.
Why dont we just call backward thinking cave-people, backward thinking cave-people?
“reverse intellect stone-den dweller” is way too PC
“The only time a man may wear a burqa by law is to aid in perpetrating a terrorist attack.”
I’d like to see some source for this.
Ummm, sarcasm?
“Sunny Lohmann is a political satirist …”
The top two photos are from Afghanistan. I know my portable jails. Watch out or I’ll call the Fashion Police.
No Burqa NO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK7CVNyBALo
Having watched a Muslim woman in abayas eat in public is a depressing sight to see.
Whereas she was wearing a veil-like accessory and lifted it to take a bite and released the veil immediately afterward.
Heck my dogs have more freedom when were hiking and my providing food, travel water bowl when necessary.
Funny you should mention dogs. Islam doesn’t like dogs either.
April Fools’ Day was last week.
… but Arab Fool’s Day will probably last forever alas.
Pretty good satire … lol … but it would have been still better if it had run on April 1.
I have a collection of real-life burqa-dude news stories here.
Right, because satire can only occur on 4/1. What the?!
Actually the women have the right to be chauffeured or escorted if on foot.
A woman is likely to be arrested if she has no escort that she is related to. Unless she breastfeeds her escort before leaving the house which according to fatwa makes him a relative.
I can just imagine the conversation in a Saudi household.
Asmah: Dear husband I need to ask you for a favor.
Abdul: I am busy now what is it?
Asmah: My girlfriend Noora, you remember, the young one who just got married, her husband is away and she has run out of groceries and needs someone to escort her to the store.
Abdul: (drops newspaper) Tell her I will be right over…
Women in America should have it so good. Poor Sandra Fluke and her women friends in Congress and Hollywood. Bet we will see women flocking to Saudi Arabia from America.
Does the right come with instant confinement in an asylum?
This article is a joke right? No way it can be real.
look at the other sunny stuff around here
… as opposed to men, who have to go out of the home to make friends and work and provide for themselves and their families.
But let’s not forget what the definition of “work” for your average penis-possessing saudi is, which cannot be anything harder than lazing about in an office which would be empty except for the desks on which their porn-loaded laptops sit, for no more than an hour or two a day.
Given the rampant buggery going on in most Islamic countries, this article comes off as far less satirical than intended.
And this is the society we are allowing to control our economy by refusing to drill for our own oil and natural gas. Wonderful!
Where is the outcry from feminists all over the world in support of their sisters? I am sick of the fake compassion for “oppressed people” who are the worse abusers of human rights on the planet.