Females in Saudi Arabia are socially disabled in multiple ways- thus not because of their inability to interact but merely because of the religious and constitutional rule of law. However there seems to have been a breakthrough.


The International Olympic Committee ( IOC) announced that every country competing in the London games will include female athletes for the first time in history. Judo athlete Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani and 800 meter runner Sara Attar made Olympic history for the entire games as Saudi Arabia had been of three remaining countries to have never sent female athletes to the Olympics and it is also an end to the ultra-traditionalist Islamic country’s compulsion. The two were invited by the IOC and entered by the Saudi Arabian Olympic committee. 


IOC President Jacques Rogges mentioned that However there appears to already be a clash of cultures on arrival the Islam community took high offense as the

inevitable surfaced; hours away from the official opening of the 2012 Olympics. A “Welcome to London” sign written in Arabic  backwards was unclear and Judo athlete Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani was over ruled in respecting her religion by wearing her head scarf, unfortunately for her own safety she may not wear the head scarf during the competition. In all collaboration of cultures religions etc… the Olympic team should have considered every aspect and there should have been an alternative. 


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