Title: Online Activists Chide Saudi Grand Mufti
Saudi Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz bin Abdullah Al-Sheik criticized women vendors for selling goods in public places when he gave his sermon during the Jumma prayer earlier this month, stating that this behavior would result in “a tremendous moral crisis”. This statement follows July’s mandate from Saudi Arabia’s Labor Ministry directing stores that sell lingerie and cosmetics to replace salesmen with women.
Not long after Mufti made his statement public, online activists created the hashtag #mufti, criticizing his words through satire. To view the rest of this article, click here.
