Gulfnews
By Abdul Nabi Shaheen, Correspondent
Published: April 09, 2009, 22:56
Riyadh: A group of hardliners has initiated a campaign to have Saudi Arabia's first woman minister, Norah Al Fayez sacked.
Unsettled about the kingdom's new call for reform, the group approached Shaikh Saleh Al Laheedan, a member of the Senior Scholars' Commission which is the highest religious body in Saudi Arabia and former chairman of the Supreme Judiciary Council to exercise his influence to have Deputy Education Minister Fayez removed from her post.
The hardliners went to meet the shaikh after gathering at a mosque in Riyadh on Wednesday.
During their meeting, they tried to impress on Shaikh Laheedan the necessity of reviewing the changes made in the supervision of the girls' education department and bring it back under the control of Islamic scholars and shaikhs.
The same group recently urged Information Minister Abdul Aziz Khoja to ban women from appearing on TV, newspapers or magazines.
Sheikh Laheedan assured the group that their concerns would be addressed.
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