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Thousands take to social media to support Saudi Crown Prince’s abaya statements
2018-03-28
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Social media went abuzz following Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince of Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
as of 2016....

’s statement during his interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes saying that women should be free to choose their interpretation of decent attire, and that this should not be limited to the black abaya.

Tens of thousands of people used hashtags on Twitter to express their views, mostly supporting the crown prince’s statements.

Supporters of the statements used the hashtag ’how I survived the awakening’ while the opposing side used the hashtag ’abaya is sharia you secularist’. Those using the latter hashtag believe that women should not be free to wear what they want, whereas others replied saying that there is no real law that forces a woman to wear the black abaya.
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