RIYADH (Web Desk) – A woman in Saudi Arabia being harassed by the country’s strict religious police for wearing makeup to the mall turned the table on the officers in a YouTube video, reported The Daily Mail.
The woman, who identifies herself as Fatma Ibrahim Hussein, was shopping in the Nakheel Mall in Saudi’s capital Ridhya with her husband when the incident took place.
Mrs Hussein filmed herself being followed by six muttawa officers after they accused her of dressing ‘provocatively’ in public.
The film shows her walking into a jewellery store with the men close on her heels, before they tell the shopkeeper not to serve her.
However, refusing to allow the men to bully her, the woman approaches them and asks them to identify themselves, which they refuse to do.
She then asks the shop assistant to see an item from behind the counter, but he also refuses, saying the police won’t let him.
Frustrated, the woman then turns to the men before saying: “My name is Fatma Ibrahim Hussein. Tell me what your name is if you’re a real man!”
An argument then breaks out with the muttawa, who say she must leave the mall for wearing eye makeup, saying it contravenes the Islamic country’s strict religious laws.
But despite the muttawa’s insistence, they are eventually forced to back down after Mrs Hussein refuses to budge.
She plans to launch a complaint against the Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, who set the rules the muttawa enforce.
