Saudi Arabian police have apprehended this woman who wore a mini skirt and crop top in public. She violated the kingdom’s strict conservative dress laws. Authorities were set off when a viral video of “the suspect” was released online, sparking outrage all throughout the kingdom. The video showed this young Saudi model walking around a historic site in Ushaiager, a village north of the capital city of Riyadh. This area is a hotbed of conservative tribal ideologies.
On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia’s state-run media released a statement on the arrest. The model had been arrested for “immodest clothes.”
Women in Saudi Arabia must wear long, loose robes (abayas) in public. Many also cover their face and hair with a black veil. Let’s just say, the woman in this video decided to go with a more liberal look…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDzPQbIDhto
The woman in the video is being identified by several media outlets by the name “Khulood.” She was arrested for a Snapchat video of her viewing “immodest clothing” in the Najd province. This is the region where Mohammad ibn Abd al Wahhab was born. He is the founder and creator of Wahhabism — a puritan sect of Sunni Islam.
Ibrahim al-Munayif, a Saudi writer who has more than 41,000 followers on Twitter, criticized the model’s viral video. He said that if people don’t obey the laws of the kingdom than society would turn to chaos. Ibrahim tweeted, “Just like we call on people to respect the laws of countries they travel to, people must also respect the laws of this country.”
Twitter user Isis Semaj-Hall had a positive take on the issue. He called for fashion equality for the masses.
Khulood has also posted a video of herself driving, as a protest towards the nation’s law that prohibits women from driving a car or any motor vehicle.
But back to the viral video at hand, local media outlets wouldn’t allow their audiences to see the model in her mini skirt and crop top. Instead, they threw a white cloth over the woman…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqj83KSb7f0
