Friday, July 15, 2005

The Right Stuff

Spotted via TchadForum

"The hiring of a Muslim woman as a pilot by the Kingdom Holding Company has been opposed by an associate professor of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh.

Sheikh Yousuf Al-Ahmad, who teaches Shariah law at the university, was responding to a full-page advertisement by Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, congratulating Captain Hanadi Zakariya Hindi for becoming the first Saudi woman to get a commercial pilot's license."

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