"We are commemorating the act of a woman, someone who made a sacrifice not just for her child but to the building of an entire city," Sharif said, referring to the fact that the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine — and later Mecca itself — were built near the site of Hagar's suffering.
"And she was going through these extremes to provide for her child, without thinking about gender, and here it is now (they're) making it forbidden for women to run," said the 32-year-old from Atlanta, Georgia.
Welcome to Saudi Arabia. To add insult to injury--men impatient with lines crash into women's bathrooms?! How does that respect women's modesty?
But unlike many mosques, the Grand Mosque in Mecca allows women to pray side by side with the men.
P.S. Women lead Swiss in vote to ban minarets. London Times. Switzerland and the Minaret: Sunday's vote keeps European heads in the sand about Muslim immigrants. WSJ.
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