ABHA: Deviant groups have attempted to attract Saudi women to carry out terrorist operations by various means and in sinister ways.
Many women have been found to have been recruited by terrorist groups inside and outside the Kingdom.
Islamic scholar Mohammed Al-Dabash pointed out that Islam has honored women and given her full rights and protection. “However, there are limits. When a woman or a man commits a crime, they must be held accountable for it,” he said.
“A woman has to be treated the same as a man during investigations and when meting out punishment,” he said. “A woman should be subjected to thorough inspection when crossing a border. Even women beggars who enter mosques should be thoroughly inspected for they might be concealing something under their abaya,” he said.
He warned that people should not sympathize with women. He said that the law allows men to search women if there are no women to do this job. “We should not omit security checks of women just because they are women; the checks and searches are for the sake of safety,” he said.
A Saudi security expert, Mervet Abdul Rahman, said terrorist organizations, such as Daesh, deliberately recruit women to go into high-security areas. He called for the necessity of security inspections for women who show even the slightest tendency to extremism.
Anti-terror expert Yousef Al-Rumaih said: “We live in a difficult time. We are targeted and we have no room for considering a woman’s privacy over a country’s safety. Every woman should be inspected so the terrorists will not use this omission in moving weapons across borders. The hijab has been exploited by other communities as well.” To commit a crime these days requires less physical strength. “A woman can hide a weapon beneath her clothes,” he said. “And this can wreak havoc as was shown in the Special Emergency Forces Compound Mosque attack in Abha.” He pointed out that crime no longer needs only a weapon and physical strength.
“A woman can now be as dangerous as a man,” he said. “We have put so much focus on men that we have forgotten that a woman is also capable of terrorism.”
Many women have been found to have been recruited by terrorist groups inside and outside the Kingdom.
Islamic scholar Mohammed Al-Dabash pointed out that Islam has honored women and given her full rights and protection. “However, there are limits. When a woman or a man commits a crime, they must be held accountable for it,” he said.
“A woman has to be treated the same as a man during investigations and when meting out punishment,” he said. “A woman should be subjected to thorough inspection when crossing a border. Even women beggars who enter mosques should be thoroughly inspected for they might be concealing something under their abaya,” he said.
He warned that people should not sympathize with women. He said that the law allows men to search women if there are no women to do this job. “We should not omit security checks of women just because they are women; the checks and searches are for the sake of safety,” he said.
A Saudi security expert, Mervet Abdul Rahman, said terrorist organizations, such as Daesh, deliberately recruit women to go into high-security areas. He called for the necessity of security inspections for women who show even the slightest tendency to extremism.
Anti-terror expert Yousef Al-Rumaih said: “We live in a difficult time. We are targeted and we have no room for considering a woman’s privacy over a country’s safety. Every woman should be inspected so the terrorists will not use this omission in moving weapons across borders. The hijab has been exploited by other communities as well.” To commit a crime these days requires less physical strength. “A woman can hide a weapon beneath her clothes,” he said. “And this can wreak havoc as was shown in the Special Emergency Forces Compound Mosque attack in Abha.” He pointed out that crime no longer needs only a weapon and physical strength.
“A woman can now be as dangerous as a man,” he said. “We have put so much focus on men that we have forgotten that a woman is also capable of terrorism.”
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