New Saudi Co-Education University Where Women Can Wear "Any Kind Of Dress" They Like.

September 24, 2009 — Saudi Arabia has opened the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) near Jeddah, its first co-educational university where women can wear any kind of dress she likes. .
Authorities hope the mixed-gender centre will help modernise the kingdom's deeply conservative society.
The multi-billion-dollar university is being seen as an attempt by King Abdullah to "promote reforms" in the kingdom.
Women will also not be required to wear veils in the co-educational classes.
This is in contrast to the wider country where fanatic Wahhabism is practised and women are completely segregated.

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[hammadalqadri]

Anyone who want to know about Mainstream, Traditional, True & Actual Islam go through the site - c i f i a o n l i n e.com - (enter without space) & stay away from falling in absolute deception spreading by Saudi funded Wahabi / Salafi fake scholars, mosques, religious centers & charity organizations & its subcontinental concubine Deobandism/Tablighi Jamaat. Only preaching & spreading their deviant filthy ideology, fanaticism, terrorism & hatred falsely hijacking name of Islam.

[erum97]

i am saudi women and i know the rules of islam,islam not teach us this,i am very happy with my hijab.and my advice to all saudis and muslims girl.before do anything just think that we are muslims..

[Seemiization]

M a muslim... My Father is a practicing muslim and so is much of ... my family... I have never been forced by my father to wear hijab or cover my head..though he did emphasize on wearinf proper clothes that should not be revealing. Now I wanna wear Hijab,no one forced me ever, no one told me or the girls I knew to not educate ourselves or to not live our life ... Bt m glad m a muslm woman because m thankful that 90% of us are guarded tenderly by our parents,,we r not a willing toy for all men!!!

[Abdulcollege00]

Saudi Arabia -3

[gzkhanji]

ewww who is she working n radio at jeddah and knew nothing about saudi women and commenting n them. im an asian i have worked with saudi families. im proud of each saudi women whom r covering thier selves keep it up sisters ......these people r just jelouse وعتصمؤ بحبل لله جميعا

[shwy5a]

if you dont want to cover up yourself then dont .. we are muslims and we want to cover our body and head .. and i dislike what she said thats all wrong !! and woman can go outside without men

[bestypaki]

i dislike this idea by the saudi gvt. that women inside the university wud be able to wear anything they like to...

oterwise this university wud becom roots of FAHASHA in saudia arabia, from where it wud spread ot all over the community living there..

[bestypaki]

ima pakistani,living in saudia

i love to b in veil & abaya.my Allah knows no1 evr forced me 2 do this,i feel ABAYA as a protctive shield,if any man is staring at me while im wearing abaya,i dont bother to care about his eyes cz i knw im coverd

all d women shud knw tht WOMEN hv a distinct high position like diamonds,not any dcoration piece,women r precious n shd realize this!

they r not available for evryone, they r so precious n sacred that they can only be of those who deserves them!

[RMGAbeliever]

im a saudi women

I want to say two words come out from the depths of my heart :)

THANK GOD I AM A MUSLIM :)

[zooey1234]

@M6A7Z8N9000kjshdfkhk --agreed! I only hope what she said at first was edited out; i wouldn't like to think she was telling downright LIES (she was a spokesperson for radio Jeddah!)  How many people in the Kingdom have those extremist blinkered opinions? 5? 50? not many more (insha'allah!)

[199Leonardo]

King Abdullah have a good friend that is Ameera Al-Taweel, she has a good relation with the king of her country, because she is from the royal family and because her ideas about women, Saudi Arabia have much to learn with Syria women, ancient christian syrian women had a large influence on the family as in mine by the father ancestry.

[Amandalx21]

COOL! am thinking of studying here after my undergraduate studies :) shouldn't be a problem since the president of the university is a singaporean too! ^^