Religious leaders set to ban women devotees in Mecca

The highly influential voices of Saudi Arabia, the clerics are planning to impose a new restriction on the women from praying in the ‘grand Mosque, Mecca’.

At present, there is a cube-shaped structure inside the Mosque (Kabba), where women pray along with the male devotees. However, Osama al-Bar, the head of the Institute for Haj Research said that the place is pretty small and packed all the time, so it will be best for the women to pray from a place which is far away from the ‘holy site’.

An all-male committee has taken this decision regarding the exclusion of women in the Kabba: nevertheless, no final decision has been arrived at yet.

This new restriction in progress has kicked off a controversy and has forced the women activist to oppose it.