The BBC looks at four Saudi bloggers: Ahmed Omar, of the Arabic-language Living in the KSA; Fouad Al-Farhan whose site is currently down; Saudi scriptwriter Aysha Alkusayer and her English-language In the Making; and of course Ahmed Omran, the go-to guy (well, I go to him very often!) and Saudi Jeans, currently on Eid break.
Blogging in Saudia Arabia can carry risks. The Saudi authorities detained one blogger, Fouad al-Farhan, for four months this year after he called for political reform.
But people are still speaking their minds online. Topics in this selection of posts include a fatwa, repressive Arab regimes, religion as empowerment, and menswear with a twist.
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October:02:2008 - 10:49
I think much of what Aysha said is true; however, I believe much of the act of extreme religiosity is due to pressure to conform.
I also think she hit it head on when she said the reason women grasp such measures is to have some type of voice and influence over the men in their lives. Sadly it doesn’t work in many cases and many of these women end up divorced because the Saudi man isn’t going to withstand nagging or a women trying to exert too much force even in the name of God.
I have met many Saudi women who were divorced or their husbands took second wives because they were too religious and annoying at that.