{"id":261113,"date":"2017-09-22T16:02:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=261113"},"modified":"2020-12-17T11:48:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:48:27","slug":"women-have-quarter-of-a-brain-saudi-cleric-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/women-have-quarter-of-a-brain-saudi-cleric-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Women have quarter of a brain\u2019, Saudi cleric claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The morning laugh\u2026 probably Muslim clerics have only 10% of the brain women have\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Saudi cleric has been slated for saying that women don\u2019t deserve to drive because they only have a quarter of a brain. Sheikh Saad Al-Hijri was also banned from performing his religious duties because of his outrageous comments.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Hijri made his brain-numbing remarks at a lecture aptly titled,\u00a0\u201cThe evils of women driving.\u201d\u00a0Women are banned from driving altogether in the notoriously conservative country, with many jailed for attempting to.<\/p>\n<p>According to the cleric, women only have half a brain to begin with, but, when they attempt to factor shopping into their feeble minds, that halves again and they\u00a0\u201cend up with only a quarter,\u201d\u00a0as\u00a0cited\u00a0by the Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n<p>A video of Al-Hijri\u2019s sexist musings was circulated online, provoking a backlash from many in the kingdom who used the hashtag\u00a0\u201cAl-Hijri says women have a quarter of a brain\u201d\u00a0to voice their anger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe became pregnant with him, gave birth to him, raised him, spent sleepless nights for him until he grew up and now he calls her a woman with a quarter of a brain. He and his like must be banned from appearing anywhere,\u201d\u00a0wrote one irate user.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI swear to God those who have a quarter of a brain are you and your likes who handed you platforms to deliver hardline views. It is the woman who raises man and she is the core of success,\u201d\u00a0said another.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia, an absolutist monarchy which controversially has seats on the UN Human Rights Council and the Women\u2019s Rights Commission, has long been criticized for the treatment of the kingdom&#8217;s female population.<\/p>\n<p>Not to worry though, in an apparent move to rectify this the government established a \u2018girl\u2019s council\u2019 consisting solely of men who know better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/404259-women-have-quarter-brain-saudi-cleric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/404259-women-have-quarter-brain-saudi-cleric\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The morning laugh\u2026 probably Muslim clerics have only 10% of the brain women have\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":287345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}