{"id":29836,"date":"2012-08-15T11:14:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/going-to-extremes-to-support-religious-and-social-prejudice.html"},"modified":"2012-08-15T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:14:22","slug":"going-to-extremes-to-support-religious-and-social-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/going-to-extremes-to-support-religious-and-social-prejudice.html","title":{"rendered":"Going to extremes to support religious and social prejudice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with a situation where female unemployment is massive, but the local religious leaders have\u00a0conniptions\u00a0whenever women &quot;mingle&quot; with strange men? \u00a0Simple &#8212; create light industry municipalities that are open to women only. (Except, one assumes, their overseers and the religious inspectors.)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Frs%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F08%2FSaudi-Women-via-AFP.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/08\/11\/saudi-arabia-developing-all-woman-cities\/'>Saudi Arabia developing all-woman cities | The Raw Story<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn a bid to offer more women career opportunities without running afowl of Sharia law, the Saudi Arabian government is putting together a group of all-women cities. According to Russia Today, construc&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/1cRe6NKx7Ny' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with a situation where female unemployment is massive, but the local religious leaders have\u00a0conniptions\u00a0whenever women &quot;mingle&quot; with strange men? \u00a0Simple &#8212; create light industry municipalities that are open to women only. (Except, one assumes, their overseers and the religious inspectors.) Embedded Link Saudi Arabia developing all-woman cities | The Raw Story In a bid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/going-to-extremes-to-support-religious-and-social-prejudice.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going to extremes to support religious and social prejudice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138580,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/oppression-is-whatever-a-bodys-obliged-to-do.html","url_meta":{"origin":29836,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Oppression is whatever a body&#8217;s obliged to do&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-Apr-19 11:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The hijab can be a symbol of oppression or of freedom","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Church &amp; 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