haidar agrees with her husband about the need to abolish the committee for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice, commonly known as the mutawwa. international bodies and human rights organizations demanded the release of raif badawi immediately out of respect for freedom of opinion. according to haidar, muhammad badawi, raif's father, said in a number of media interviews that "his son is an atheist, demanding that he be punished on the air", although raif recited the shahada in court to disprove any claims of himself being an atheist and prior to this he has made umrah with their three children.