Saudi Arabia is breaking ground for the world’s largest women’s college.
Here’s the funniest part of the article:
The declared aim of the Women’s University is to promote women’s education in the kingdom, improve the situation of Saudi women and make them a more integral part of Saudi Arabia’s development.
The reason it’s so funny? Men can’t teach. And women can’t drive.
Saudi Arabia practices a strict form of Sunni Islam called Wahhabism, and men and women are for the most part segregated. In universities, male lecturers cannot stand in front of a classroom of women, so teaching is done through a screen or a phone line, which can pose technical problems.
But yes, people like Jimmy Carter should totally go after Israeli “apartheid,” and ignore utterly the sexism of much of the Muslim world.
Wow, you hit the proverbial nail on the head there!
Comment by plum — 10/29/2008 @ 6:52 pm