Can a Saudi get around the cat & dog ban by having them wear the hijab?

Question

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The headline:

Saudi religious police ban pet cats and dogs

The link:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080730134513.7uxdy8o9&show_article=1

The story:

Saudi Arabia's religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said on Wednesday.

Othman al-Othman, head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Riyadh, known as the Muttawa, told the Saudi edition of al-Hayat daily that the commission has started enforcing an old religious edict.

The reason behind reinforcing the edict now was a rising fashion among some men using pets in public "to make passes on women and disturb families," he said, without giving more details.

Othman said that the commission has instructed its offices in the capital to tell pet shops "to stop selling cats and dogs". passes on women and disturb families,

Answer 1

good grief.

truly, truly sad.

Answer 2

Yes that makes perfect sense. Rather than tell them men to act like civilized human beings and respect women, let's blame the cats and dogs and let's ban owning them. Much easier to just restrict everything ELSE so that men don't have to actually be decent.

Answer 3

don't think so;it's probably against their religion