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Muslim Clerics Threaten Saudi Labor Minister: We’ll Pray You Get Cancer if You Let Women Work in Lingerie Shops

Dec. 27, 2012 6:58am Sharona Schwartz

Muslim Clerics Threaten Saudi Labor Minister with Cancer Prayers if he Lets Women Work in Lingerie Shops

Saudi woman in lingerie shop (AP photo)

Victoria’s Secret may soon have trouble finding people to sell its stock in Saudi Arabia.

A group of hardline Islamic clerics is threatening the labor minister with “deadly prayers” if he goes ahead with a plan to create more jobs for women, saying they’ll pray he gets cancer to which his predecessor succumbed two years ago. In particular, they don’t like his ideas about women selling undergarments to other women.

Al Arabiya reports:

During a meeting at the labor ministry on Tuesday, about 200 religious figures accused Minister Adel Fakeih of executing a “Westernization” plan and asked him to ban women from working in lingerie shops within a month or he will face their dangerous prayers.

Only problem is, King Abdullah last year issued a royal decree prohibiting men from staffing lingerie shops, which leaves the question: Who will sell those sexy undergarments?

Al Arabiya offers more detail on the heated meeting:

One religious man told the minister, “I supplicated against a senior official at the ministry and he received the (cancer) disease and he died; this was because he began implementing the feminization decision,” according to al-Eqtisadiah newspaper. The man reportedly referred to previous Labor Minister [Ghazi al] Gosaibi.

Another religious figure told the minister that the government’s job is to employ women and not to decide where they should be employed.

Addressing the minister, another man said, “I am warning you, do not ignite sedition; we only came here to provide advice; your ministry has thrown our daughters in places that don’t suit their values.”

After a wave of attacks the minister finally snatched an opportunity to respond to the bearded men in front of him. He defended the decision to employ women, saying that women occupied jobs during the era of the Prophet Muhammad, adding that it made more sense if women rather than men are in charge of selling women’s lingerie.

Some 200 Muslim clerics visit Saudi Labor Ministry Tuesday demanding a ban on women’s employment in lingerie shops. (Photo credit: aleqt.com via Al Arabiya)

The labor minister dug in his heels, telling the clerics if they have a problem with his decision they should take the government to court.

Three years ago, senior Saudi religious figures issued a fatwa barring women from working in the field.

Daniel Greenfield of Front Page Magazine called this the “real War on Women,” offering this quip: “But as Obama says, ‘The future will not belong to those who slander the lingerie of Islam.’”

Earlier this month, more than 100 clerics swarmed into the Labor Ministry objecting to plans to create more jobs for women. Then they complained about rulings which would allow the mixing of genders in the workplace. Of the 1.5 million Saudis looking for work, a whopping 80 percent are women.

But those statistics don’t move hardline religious leaders who warn liberalizing labor laws will lead to “social disintegration” and the “Westernization” of Saudi Arabia.

The religious conservatives aren’t holding back their rhetoric to fight what they consider to be the threat of working women. A Saudi cleric last month called waitresses at the local Hardee’s outlets “prostitutes.” The American chain was also subject to a boycott by hardline Islamists opposing its employment of women.

Saudi Sheikh Ali Al Mutairi posted on Twitter: “At the beginning of her shift she’s a waitress. When her shift ends she becomes a prostitute. The more she’s around men the easier it becomes to get closer to her.”

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Secret Squirrel
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:54am
Only a muslim god would send cancer to punish
someone for working in a clothing shop.

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- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:50pm
  Actually, these clerics are indulging in 2 mortal sins–blasphemy (they are trying to “force” Allah’s hand, which is no-no as according to Koran Allah is unfathomable and is not subject to human pleading, peddling and influencing) and sorcery (trying to utilize supernatural powers.to force an evil on someone).
  
  Off with their heads!
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:23pm
  If it’s Schwartz, it’s Middle East propaganda that favors the nation where her loyalty rests, Israel.
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 2:02pm
  Ah, the Jerk, right on cue with anti-semitic drivel.
  
  FYI, Schwartz is German for Black. It’s a typical German surname.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 3:33pm
  Twobyfour, and your point is? You look at her stories. Always pro-Israeli propaganda. Always loyalty to Israel. America is dying. Who cares about Israel? She does, and that’s the story.
- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 3:56pm
  There is nothing about Israel in the story. Not even implied. Not a nice try and no cigar.
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 4:02pm
  Conservatives vs Muslim clerics who wish cancer on Victoria’s Secret. Guess which ones the liberals label as anti-woman.
  
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- Rice Water
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 6:51pm
  HAHAHAHAHHH! I’ve had “CancerAids” wished upon me more times than I can count. This guy’s fine, and Muslim clerics are morons.
  
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- piper60
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:58am
  Saudi Arabia is the fashion center of the Arab disaster zone. And women clerks and shop owners have been accepted for decades. Upper class Saudi women often wear expensive, vaguely western clothes at home or among themselves. There are female bank tellers, stock brokers, nurses. So why not lingerie saleswomen?Of course, where there are female workers, men aren’t allowed so perhaps that’s the problem- if women can staff lingerie shops, men can’t check out the merchandise-and in puritanical Saudi that might be the next best thing to smuggling Playboy magazine past the religious police.
  
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- piper60
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:06pm
  Sounds like the real problem is women having money of their own- evidently chaining them to the wall isn’t enough like the handmaid’s tale to suit Saudi religious tastes.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:30pm
  Unbeknownst to the clerics, prayers such as those threatened actually have a boomerang effect and sicken the beseecher.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:32pm
  This decision coming from men with towels on their heads.
  
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DesdemonasCrew
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:43am
And who says these people are not certifiably nuts?

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- piper60
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 6:36am
  Rgar would imply that the worship of Moe’s blood dripping demon of murder and tyranny was a curable mental illness0and the only proven cure we know of involves Martuni-Hrnty rifles, Maxim machine june and Winstin Chuexgikk wurh a horsem saber and lance.
  
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raptor45
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:40am
And my prayer for the clerics is that their dirty old ba lls shrink to the size of bird seed, that their weanies shrivel like a dead rose, that their mouths morph into v anginas and that they are dominated throughout eternity, 24/7 by an angry and horn y ram.

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:48am
  …and my favorite ****** “prayer”….”May the FLEAS of a THOUSAND CAMMELS…INFECT THEIR ARMPITS!” Oy! Dat’s-a good one!! :>)
  
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- ONLY4UANDME
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 2:46pm
  lol
  
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Mustangrider
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:38am
Are all those dudes wearing Pink!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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Mustangrider
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:35am
The bible says you shall know them by their works and deeds. Christians ministers pray for Health, Faith, Healing, Success, and Happiness for mankind and Muslim clerics pray for this.

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...sam
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:25am
their just pissed because you cant pack 4 lbs of c4 into a thong…..

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term limits for congress
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:15am
Send Sandra Flucke over there – she’ll do it… as long as she can get her free contraceptives, too. She will be able to see what a real war on women looks like.

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- piper60
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:04pm
  We already have limits on the Congresscritters;its a two year term, folioed by an election.senators get six years- and only the ghastly examples like Moby Ted Kennedy or “Sheets”the grand Hleagle, need not worry about re-election.
  
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- ThePatriette
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:30am
  Ha ha! That is funny. I am all for it!
  
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- ThePatriette
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:34am
  Ha ha! That is funny. I am all for it. Send in the Flucke!
  
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Tigress1
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:12am
Ha! Ha! I just noticed the photo above with all the Muslim men in their pink headgear. NOW we know who will be selling the lingerie!

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- jessieH
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:45pm
  and wearing it.
  
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Tigress1
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:10am
OK, let’s see. Men cannot sell lingerie, and women can’t sell lingerie. Who CAN sell lingerie? Good news Muslim women! You don’t have to wear ANYTHING under those burkas! It will be a lot cooler that way! :)

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- piper60
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 6:40am
  The ankle chains and chastity belts are a bit yncomfortavlr, even so.
  
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vaman
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:53am
Radical religion does something bad once again. Not that any of the evangelicals will admit it, but they pray for bad things to happen all the time. They want non believers to suffer…just like their muslim brothers. Both groups are a cancer to the world.

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- capelady
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 9:07am
  True followers of Jesus Christ do not pray for bad things to happen to unbelievers… ever.
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:26am
  Ha! Atta boy!
  
  What a nice sleight of hand! The radical imams become evangelicals, pure magic! Almost an art form, to build a strawman into a false equivalency with just a few words.
  
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Logios249
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:44am
and yet the Sheikh has twitter…classic

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scrapadapolis
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:40am
Who cares about sexy clothing!Noone will ever see it under a hajib.LOL.Every time I see a woman in a hajib I cant help to think are there sheets on her bed?

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SWODADDY
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:34am
Next thing you know the women will want to wear PANTS to mosque!!! (Insert big GASP here)

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OldSurfRat
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:19am
Ok then make the clerics sell undies and let the women be clerics.
They can call it Muhammad’s Secret. Oh wait they already have that it’s called the Koran.

Really hope this pi$$ed someone off (:

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:03am
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If they let women sell lingerie, what are the Gays going to do?………………….

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- Stoic one
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:35am
  spank each other’s monkey?
  
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jackact
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:51am
…While the rest of the FREE world prays that the Muslim clerics develop the Syphillis, gonnorhea, blindness, tooth decay and diabetes that they normally get…….but a lot earlier.
:)

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ares338
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:36am
Face it folks…..these people have never left the Middle Ages. Anything that threatens their control over women and they start chanting and heads will roll. The Saudis are the worst…..without their oil they would all be back in tents eating goat brains.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:34am
Once again we see another aspect of the true war on women around the world. Islam is a religion and a philosophy founded upon hate and death, it is a true demonic perversion imposed upon the world by the sword and by blood.

One has to continuously wonder how much blood Obama has on his hands for his growing madness and support of Islamic Extremists and terrorists.

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- justangry
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:59am
  Aye it’s much more ethical to be pragmatic about murdering people. Like if we want their resources then it’s OK.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 9:27am
  ANGRY! Don’t get your pink panties in such a wad this early in the morning! Maybe for you, we can attack, take them over and redistribute all of their lingerie to mentaly needy Americans such as yourself!
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:18pm
  Justangry, how did you come to that conclusion?
  
  As far as I am aware, there was no “acquisition” of oil resources by USA on other territories than owned in the last half century, the oil coming from elsewhere is paid for based on market price and/or agreed upon price based on volume. For instance, the Iraq war did not yield any Iraq oil acquisitions whatsoever, not only that, but in bids for oil extraction and processing, American companies lost to French and Russian companies, despite the clout USA could exercise by the status quo of the military presence So, where this concept comes from? Explain.
  
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- Metalstr8jckt
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 9:11pm
  @Snow Leopard: Pointing out complicity of the usurper of the Republic of the United States of America, is merely academic now. The Public is asleep to the tyranny it is enslaved by.
  
  His only remaining problem is how to disarm the people who remain a threat against his hegemony of total control.
  
  Congress has a broken will, and no intestinal fortitude anymore.
  
  Prohibition of all future gun purchases, and government incentives for “good citizens” to turn in weapons will be key, to his goal.
  
  The “Dream act,” as well as: “Aztlan”( Mexican “Reconquista” (Taking) of America by Communist subversives declaring Hispanic activism as Latino rights to citizenship by force will succeed to distract the country as incremental executive orders are signed into law.
  
  All the while, illegal separation of powers edicts from the White house will continue to debase and disenfranchise those who oppose higher taxation, and a voice in government. The irony is that his subordinates in his “White Kremlin” will continue to claim that those in opposition to all his policies, are the ones intolerant to “Forward progressiveness.”
  
  Telling the lies repeatedly of injustice, is the implementation of Communism to use a free society against itself.
  
  The people merely have to be occupied with a few entertaining diversions and scraps to keep them from really assessing how much of their freedom they no longer possess.
  
  Daily stresses of paying for the “Seasons” new toys, makes t
  
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golfmax13
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:32am
Odd they would wish that – the escalator group is all in for Breast Cancer Awareness.

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- kickagrandma
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:20am
  I LAUGHED at that comment. Good for you!
  
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Cavallo
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:20am
The women better watch out for acid attacks. Seems to be a favorite with the religion of the pedophile prophet.

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rambosharley
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:17am
Talk about people wearing ‘sheets’! lol

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biohazard23
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:13am
I’m telling ya, bombing them to the Stone Age would be an evolutionary leap forward for them….

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ZAP
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:11am
Who with any love in their hearts would pray for some one to get cancer….

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- starman70
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:52am
  LOVE? In Islam, the word doesn’t exist. Marriages aren’t founded on love, they are arranged for familial expediency, political gain or community status. Women are chattel, objecrs to be used to produce children and otherwise forgotten. In Iran, even the children are abused sexually “For Pleasure” as young as less than one year old. From the Aytollah Khomeni’s book as posted earlier on the Blaze. In the stone age, men obtained women but even then, there was an attraction to the womannwhich can be classed as love. That seems to put Islam in a position of pre stone age as far as the treatment of women is concerned.
  
  As to the prayers for cancer from these idiotic clerics, maybe the tables will turn and the ones making the prayers will be the ones who get the disease.
  
  Unfortunately, I see very little hope of Islam ever entering modern society. The entire “Religion” is founded on such antiquated principles that there will never be any real change. Furthermore, as more N. African countrys adopt Shariah Law, the entire area is retrogressing into the dark ages.
  
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- ZAP
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:04am
  If that is true,why does Obama support them?
  
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- Kitsune
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:25am
  Because a stronger global Pan-Islamic bloc weakens those who believe in liberty.
  
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- Dagnabbit5
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:39am
  Sorry Starman, but that is to broad a brush to paint with. There are different denominations of Islam. Not all of them are the same. That would be like judging all Christians by the Wesboro Baptist Church or the KKK. I am friends with several Muslims at work. They are very nice, caring people. Several are women. Yes, their husbands have no problem with them working too. So try not to judge in absolutes.
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:20am
  Dagnabbit5: “There are different denominations of Islam.”
  
  Interesting choice of words. But no, there are no denominations of Islam. There are branches and sects. But the word “denomination” is a concept used only within a framework of Christianity.
  
  It is very likely used intentionally by you, to impress a false equivalence.
  
  Let me see if I can use a similar fallacy.
  
  Some Nazis were nice too. Hitler was an environmentalist and vegetarian, He was soft spoken, very polite and friendly in private settings. He cared very much about German women and children.
  
  I recommend you to familiarize yourself with concepts of kitman and taqiyya. In a contrast to Christianity, dissimulation is an inherent part of Islam’s edifice. The believers are encouraged to use them, because they belong in “all stratagems of war” arsenal.
  
  And, even the more “spiritual” branch of Islam, Sufism, gave the world the concept of assassins.
  
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- Dagnabbit5
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 6:03am
  Actually 2×4, I used the denomination because that is the word used by my coworker to explain his religion. Most of the drivel you typed had nothing to do with my comment about how not all people who follow Islam are “evil” as judged by you and your kind here. Not that I expect you to read this. You seem to be one of this websites trolls that comment on every story multiple times and have to show off you intelligence by belittling those that think different than you..
  
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jcldwl
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:09am
Yes and oh so loving religion. I am a Christian and I have never prayed harm on anyone. Why do the loving all caring Muslims do that. Oh yeah I forgot…it’s a false religion of Satan that’s why. They need to amend their Koran.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:37am
  Indeed it is a demonic religion and philosophy based on hate, murder and blood, plus coercion by sword and fire. We are seeing evil personified there in the Middle East, and here at home under Obama and the radicals he has joined into union with.
  
  May God be with us all, and may the dream of Ruth in the bible be held again in the hearts of all of America who loves freedom and the Republic.
  
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- kickagrandma
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:21am
  @SNOW~~~ like you comment on the prayer of Ruth. AMEN!
  
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RightUnite
Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:04am
Oh right…. Rather than having women working in a Lingerie shop, lets have the pedophilic pigs working there!! They’ll have a forever erection….. Yeah, that’ll go over really well, huh??

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- Lee_in_PA
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:36am
  My thoughts too. Besides, doesn’t their belief forbid an unrelated man to look upon a woman not a relative? How will women get fitted for a bra over a burka?
  
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