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Monday, April 09, 2012

Saudi Arabia ban female athletes from going to Olympics...

In the last few months, there have been many articles on various websites about the fact that Saudi Arabia won't be sending any female athletes to the Olympic games in London. In a country that is deeply conservative, the Supreme Council for Religious Scholars in 2010 renewed a religious edict banning sports for women saying that it "will lead to following in the footsteps of the devil."

Eamonn Sweeney has a piece in the Irish Independent HERE
Posted by John Desmond at Monday, April 09, 2012
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2 comments:

Paudie said...

PE is forbidden for girls in state schools, most of the country's gyms for women were closed by the government two years ago, all of the country's officially licensed 153 sports clubs are closed to women and women are prohibited from attending sports events.

My god. This is crazy stuff.

9/4/12 9:01 pm
Anonymous said...

We should boycott Saudi Arabia's main export to Ireland (oil) and run everywhere !!

10/4/12 12:59 pm

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