http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=170822
Published: 29/6/2005, 08:53 (UAE)
Cleric rules it is unlawful for woman to work as pilot
By Mariam Al Hakeem, Correspondent
Riyadh:
A major newspaper advertisement campaign launched over the past few days
by the Kingdom Holding Company owned by billionaire Prince Waleed Bin Talal
congratulating a Saudi woman for becoming the country's first licensed female
pilot has enraged the religious and conservative figures.
Prince Waleed, who employed Captain Hanadi Zakaria to work for his
company fleet of private jets, has been putting full-page advertisements in the
local papers congratulating her for becoming the first Saudi woman to earn a
commercial pilot's licence.
Internet sites run by extremists and conservatives have been attacking
plans to allow Saudi women to pilot aircraft, prompting a Saudi cleric to issue
a fatwa making it unlawful for any woman to work as pilot.
The cleric said this work would require the woman to travel alone without
a mahram (male guardian) accompanying her and this would lead to women mixing
with men which is not acceptable.
Shaikh Yousuf Al Ahmad, associate professor of Sharia at Imam Mohammad
Bin Saud University in Riyadh, said in a statement that the contract signed by
the Kingdom Holding Co. is unlawful and that women should never be allowed to
work as pilots or air hostesses. He also ruled as unlawful the advertisements
by the company.
Captain Hanadi, 24, hails from a conservative family in the holy city of
Makkah.
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