Islam may have a girl crisis

Worse even than the "girl crisis" in the U.S. Supreme Court is the potential crisis within Islam as the news from Saudi Arabia is that the Kingdom may bar women from praying at the Kaaba, Islam's holiest place. AP reports in the NYTimes:

Overcrowding in the Grand Mosque, one of the few places where Muslim male and female worshippers can pray together, has become a chronic problem since the government began issuing open-ended visas several years ago for the minor pilgrimage called omra in Mecca. Mecca is the birthplace of the 7th century Prophet Muhammad.

I doubt this proposal will be carried out; even Saudi Arabia has some sensibilities as to the role of the state in religion. If it is, the Kingdom may lose even more legitimacy as the central voice of Islam.