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Woman with degrees in Middle Eastern studies and human rights moves to Saudi Arabia, is shocked...
wordpress ^ | September 21, 2019 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 09/21/2019 9:28:36 AM PDT by grundle

An American woman named Bethany Vierra got a masters degree in Middle Eastern studies and a PhD in human rights, moved to Saudi Arabia, was shocked to discover that women didn’t have the same rights as men, and falsely claimed, “The problem here is not Islamic law”

Bethany Vierra was born in Washington state.

She got a master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies from the American University in Paris.

Then she got a PhD in human rights at the National University of Ireland.

With such an education, I would think that Vierra would be aware that women in Saudi Arabia didn’t have the same rights as men, and that this lack of equal rights was due to the country following Islamic law.

But I would be wrong.

Vierra moved to Saudi Arabia, married a Saudi Arabian man, and later gave birth – while in Saudi Arabia – to their daughter.

Since doing those things, Vierra and her husband have gotten a divorce, and are now involved in a custody dispute over their daughter.

During this custody dispute, Vierra was genuinely shocked to find out that under Islamic law (also known as Sharia law) in Saudi Arabia, women do not have the same rights as men. Here’s the obligatory “shocked” scene from the movie Casablanca:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME

Vierra was also surprised to find out that she was not allowed to leave Saudi Arabia or to access her own bank account, without her ex-husband’s permission.

During the custody dispute, some of the evidence that was used against Vierra were photographs which showed that she had worn a bikini in public, had worn yoga pants in public, and had had her hair uncovered in public.

And Vierra said of this:

“The problem here is not Islamic law.”

Relative to their level of education, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone as dumb as Bethany Vierra.

Instead of getting all of those useless college degrees, she should have watched the movie Not Without My Daughter. The movie is based on a true story. Here’s the trailer for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TSmbayUJCo

And here’s a scene from it about how the country enforces its dress code:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm3xv5sosng

 

Meanwhile, back in the U.S., a woman named Linda Sarsour, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, made four tweets in favor of the U.S. adopting Sharia law.

Sarsour made this tweet, which says the following:

“10 weeks of PAID maternity leave in Saudi Arabia. Yes PAID. And ur worrying about women driving. Puts us to shame.”

She also made this tweet, which says:

“shariah law is reasonable and once u read into the details it makes a lot of sense. People just know the basics”

and this tweet, which says:

“You’ll know when you’re living under Sharia Law if suddenly all your loans & credit cards become interest free. Sound nice, doesn’t it?”

and this tweet, which says:

“If you are still paying interest than Sharia Law hasn’t taken over America.”

These statements prove that Sarsour wants the U.S. to adopt Sharia law.

Sharia law bans women from driving cars, prohibits women from appearing alone in public, calls for girls to have their genitals mutilated, and gives a woman’s testimony in court only half the value of a man’s.

After Sarsour made those four tweets in favor of the U.S. adopting Sharia law, left wing American feminists chose her to be one of the organizers of the 2017 Women’s March.

But any movement which truly cared about women’s rights would not support someone who wants the U.S. to treat women in such a horrible and repulsive manner.

I will say one positive thing about Sarsour: even though Sarsour claims to believe in Sharia law, and says that women in Saudi Arabia are better off than women in the U.S., at least she is not dumb enough to actually move to Saudi Arabia.


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KEYWORDS: bethanyvierra; feminism; islam; sharialaw; womensrights
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1 posted on 09/21/2019 9:28:36 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Sounds like “Not Without My Daughter 2”


2 posted on 09/21/2019 9:31:21 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: grundle

years and years to get a PhD.

Minutes of travelling in a foreign country to realize everything you learned and everything you insisted was true is a delusional lie


3 posted on 09/21/2019 9:31:57 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: grundle

If you say:

Islam Is RIGHT About Women!

Then you are guilty of hate speech. On the other hand, if you say

Islam Is WRONG About Women!

Then you are guilty of hate speech.

Go figure!

Thanks to eyeamok for posting this “Drive the Liberal Women even crazier!

https://www.boston25news.com/news/-islam-is-right-about-women-odd-signs-spark-confusion-in-local-town/987837653

How about: “Islam is right about dogs”?
Talking about confusion, that would bring a hellish wrath of indignation upon Islam.

13 posted on 9/21/2019, 6:26:38 AM by nathanbedford


4 posted on 09/21/2019 9:32:19 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separates satire and Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: grundle

If Islamic law isn’t the problem, then what is?


5 posted on 09/21/2019 9:34:02 AM PDT by bgill
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To: grundle

Stupid is SUPPOSED to hurt.


6 posted on 09/21/2019 9:34:35 AM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: grundle

Idiot. Too bad they had a kid to pollute the gene pool.


7 posted on 09/21/2019 9:35:14 AM PDT by ExpatCanuck
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To: grundle

Now this woman is a dumb ass.


8 posted on 09/21/2019 9:41:52 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: grundle

I wish the author would have included if the woman is registered to vote and, if so, what party she aligns herself with? And who she voted for in whatever elections she was allowed to vote in. And who she supports in the upcoming election.

Hopefully, she’ll get loony and cause the Saudi’s to put her in jail. Let her get a taste for that side of life.........ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha


9 posted on 09/21/2019 9:42:04 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: bgill

“If Islamic law isn’t the problem, then what is?”

Trump, duh!


10 posted on 09/21/2019 9:42:36 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: grundle
A Doctorate in Human Rights?

She's proof that you don't have to be smart to get a PhD...

11 posted on 09/21/2019 9:42:52 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: grundle

A stupid woman with brain dead parents.


12 posted on 09/21/2019 9:45:01 AM PDT by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: grundle

She’s got a degree in ignorance.


13 posted on 09/21/2019 9:45:18 AM PDT by caver
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To: jeffc

She was probably an excellent student, and believed everything her dingbat professors told her...


14 posted on 09/21/2019 9:45:38 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: bgill

I am sure she could quote parts of the Koran that supported her position—of course that would probably just get her locked up by Saudi authorities!


15 posted on 09/21/2019 9:46:48 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: grundle

Darn near impossible to get a decent martini in Saudi either.


16 posted on 09/21/2019 9:47:03 AM PDT by jz638
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To: grundle

Book learning is fine and dandy for theory. Actual hands on work in the field or the street is something entirely different. Sounds like she’s stuck on stupid or just hard headed, Careful lady, you might get stoned to death over there.


17 posted on 09/21/2019 9:53:04 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: miss marmelstein

Not without my daughter like number 300,002,432. It continues on. In Islime the children belong to the father and women are tilth in which to be plowed (paraphrasing from the qurap)


18 posted on 09/21/2019 9:53:10 AM PDT by zaxtres
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To: grundle

She’s no different than the “progressive wymyn” on numerous university campuses, who rushed off to Syria and Iraq to join the ISIS Jihad, when that was still a thing, and found themselves promptly turned into harem concubines.


19 posted on 09/21/2019 9:53:15 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: jz638
Darn near impossible to get a decent martini in Saudi either.

Not at all. But you will have to get it in a tea cup.
20 posted on 09/21/2019 9:54:18 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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