Saudi Arabia is getting closer to adding physical education classes for girls to public schools, but some conservative Islamic clerics are slamming the move as a "Western innovation," according to the Wall Street Journal.
After the kingdom's advisory Shoura Council voted 92-18 on Tuesday to advise the Ministry of Education to look into girls' P.E. classes, conservatives made their ire known on social media -- and they got very dramatic.
[A COMMENT] Women have suffered the most under the male-centered Abrahamic religions. It is so sad to think of the daily struggle many women face just to be treated as a fellow human in the Middle East, Africa,and among many conservative/fundamentalist religious groups in Europe and the US. [The Huffington Post] Read more
