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Women were banned from entering a Starbucks in Saudi Arabia after a ‘gender barrier’ wall collapsed, it has been claimed.
A sign posted on the window of a Riyadh store of the coffee chain, in Arabic and English, reportedly read: “Please no entry for ladies only. Send your driver to order. Thank you.”
One woman who said she was refused service at the café wrote on Twitter: “Starbucks store in Riyadh refused to serve me just because I’m a woman and asked me to send a man instead.”
Starbucks denied that the store had a ban on women.
According to the Arabic language daily newspaper Al Weaam, the country’s religious police – the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice – ordered the coffee shop’s management to ban women from the establishment after it found that a ‘segregation wall’ inside the store had given way during a routine inspection around a market in the capital city.
According to Al Weaam, the store’s management told the police that the wall had regularly collapsed because of customer stampedes.
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Gender segregation is widespread in Saudi Arabia, with women requiring male permission to work, travel, study, marry or even access healthcare. They are also unable to drive or open a bank account, and must be accompanied by a male chaperone on shopping trips.
A spokeswoman for Starbucks told The Independent that the store was currently being renovated to construct a wall to accommodate single people and families, in accordance with local customs, due to be completed within the next two weeks.
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In a statement, the company said: “Starbucks in Saudi Arabia adheres to the local customs by providing separate entrances for families as well as single people.
“All our stores provide equal amenities, service, menu and seating to men, women and families.
“We are working as quickly as possible as we refurbish our Jarir store, so that we may again welcome all customers in accordance with local customs.”
In December, women in Saudi Arabia voted in municipal elections for the first time in the country’s history. Nearly 1,000 females also stood as candidates in the elections.
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3 days ago
weestevieb
At least there’s one advantage to being a woman in Saudi….
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3 days ago
StJon
I’d definitely want to make sure to get a husband who was malleable then so I could send him out as needed for my cappuccinos and macchiatos. I hear a lot of those Saudis are rich as hell so I’m sure he’d have a lot of free time to run errands for me while I sit at home watching Netflix, playing Destiny and Facebooking. Sweet! I wonder if the grocery stores have the same rules, I hate going to the grocery store.
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10 hours ago
Tharaaali
Well some Saudi men will do grocery shopping. But you must do ALL chores in the house from cooking, cleaning, teaching kids, and on top of that he might marry a second wife, he can lock you in the house and ban you from school, work, health care and traveling, and you can’t complain because this considered a normal life in SA.
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4 days ago
warofwords
a women is abuse, bashed, beaten,raped every 9 seconds in the USA
fix your problem first
then come teach us
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3 days ago
AD
« a woman is abused, bashed. beaten, raped every 9 seconds… »
In your country that’s called marriage.
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4 days ago
warofwords
http://www.ncadv.org/learn/statistics
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4 days ago
RastaKnowsBest
Where is Germaine Greer when you need her?
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4 days ago
RastaKnowsBest
US closest allies.
There is an old saying: Tell me who is your friend, and I tell you all about you.
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4 days ago
RastaKnowsBest
US closest allies.
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4 days ago
monochrome
What else can you expect from the Apartheid Arabia?
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4 days ago
Enzorpon
Just as many of these women are trapped in a country that abuses them and their rights, the US is trapped in an abusive relationship with the Saudis where they act as total hypocrites by failing to hold the Saudis to account for their stoneage behaviour, due to the USA’s oil addiction. Brought on by the same President who allowed the Blacks to die in the gutters and prisons from crack cocaine. Figures.
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4 days ago
warofwords
a women is abused, bashed, beaten,raped every 9 seconds in the USA
fix your problem first
then come teach us about stoneage behaviour
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3 days ago
AD
« a woman is abused, bashed. beaten, raped every 9 seconds… »
In your country that’s called marriage.
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17 hours ago
warofwords
and denial is a river in egypt
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4 days ago
puddles1
« …… the [segregation] wall had regularly collapsed because of customer stampedes ».
Hahaha, that’s funny! I take it the stampedes were to get out of the store after a first sip of the disgusting dirty dishwater the company serves up under the name « coffee ».
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