SAUDI ARABIA: PANEL OF SCIENTISTS ADMITS WOMEN ARE MAMMALS, YET ‘NOT
HUMAN’
Riyadh In an unprecedented ruling, a panel of Saudi
scientists has concluded that women are actually mammals, granting
them the same rights as other mammal species such as camels, dromedaries
and even goats.
The verdict, which fell
just hours before the International Women’s Day, is considered “historic” by
some experts and advocacy groups for women’s rights.
“This is a great leap
forward for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia,” concludes Jane Austin,
spokeswoman for the Women’s Liberation Action Network.
“It may seem too little,
too late, but it is truly a milestone event for all women in the
region,” she says, visibly excited. “From now on, women will be considered as members of the
mammal class, whereas before women shared the legal status of an object, similar
to that of a home appliance,” she admits.
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| Jillian Birch, spokeswoman at Amnesty International, said she is optimistic about the future as women will no longer be considered as “soulless objects” but as fully fledged mammals |
“This
verdict shows the incredible progress the women’s rights movement has made in
the past 50 years,” she admitted in a press
conference this morning.
“Finally,
women will no longer be simply considered as objects without souls, but as
full-fledged mammals, with the same rights as other animals of their species
such as camels and goats,” she said, visibly
emotional.
“Women
are still far from being considered 100% human, but their condition will
improve drastically with this decision,” she firmly believes.
An unprecedented verdict
The verdict, which fell like a ton of bricks on the Saudi state, has
clearly not found unanimous support amongst religious authorities and the
political elite, concede experts.
“It
could create significant turmoil in the current legal state of affairs and the
judiciary system of Saudi Arabia,” says political analyst specialized in the Middle East, Anthony Bochstein.
“If
before women had the same rights as a chair or a table and were seen more as
individual property, they now have an equivalent status to certain animal
species, and thus must receive, at the very least, feeding, watering and be
conferred a minimum of attention and respect, which was not the case
previously,” he explains.
According
to the expert panel that ruled on the matter, women are still devoid of a soul
but have been shown to possess qualities common to the mammal species, which
would explain their ability to procreate and breastfeed, as well as why they
are equipped with seven cervical vertebrae, a characteristic unique to the
mammal species.
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