Posted on 07/25/2010 5:22:54 PM PDT by george76
When women’s rights activist Wajiha Al-Huwaidar flew out of Saudi Arabia last week for a holiday in Italy with her family, she was hoping for a brief respite from what she describes as the ‘gender apartheid kingdom.’
As she left, her husband received an automated SMS text message from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informing him that his wife, legally considered his ‘dependant’ under Saudi Arabia’s strict gendered guardianship system, had left the country.
“I am an adult woman that has been earning my own income for over a decade now but according to the Saudi government, I am a dependent until the day I die because of my gender,” Al-Huwaidar
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Every time I hear a moslem women say how liberating islam is I want to barf.
Whoa, a marketing idea - “Property of” Achmed or whoever tee shirts!
You mean “Property of Achmed” burqas.
A Mooslime husband is the last thing I’d expect a Saudi women’s rights activist to have. Then again, she doesn’t have anything unless he says she does. Islam is the purest manifestation of Satan’s Earthly bidding.
I thought of that, but we're talking Saudia Arabia here, and I keep hearing how they've gotten more "modern".
The Sauds have a range of genetic oddities. Sooner or later, someone may come up with an aimed plague that wipes them out.
I've had significant others P'O'ed at me in the past, but I've never done to them what Islam does to every Moslem woman. Why aren't the Moslem guys all stabbed in their sleep, I wonder?
I meant to say “every time I hear moslem women say how liberating islam is I want to barf.”
There’s already a proven cure for people like that.Two in the chest,then one in the head.
Well, yes they have become more modern in how they “stone” women to death. While I was stationed in Jordan (1975-1977) one of my duties was to take care of the aircrews for VIP flights. Usually this was just to get them to their hotel one evening and then back to their aircraft the next morning. Once we had an aircrew for about three days so I checked out one of the embassy’s Grand Wagoneers and took them sightseeing—lots of Roman and Crusader ruins there. They told lots of war stories and one of them was about being in Riyadh one Friday (the moslem holy day) morning eating breakfast at their hotel when there arose a huge uproar down the street. The ran out of the hotel to see what was happening and found that the noise came from a crowd assembled at a traffic circle. They pushed through the crowd to see what was happening and saw a woman in a burka tied to a stake. They couldn’t understand what was being said, but someone suddenly gave a signal and people threw rocks at the woman, although very few of the rocks hit her. The woman knew she was a goner and crumpled up in a ball on the ground. At that point modern technology took over as a Mercedes dump truck backed out of the crowd and dumped a load of rock on her.
If she goes back, she’s a fool. Italy is very nice I hear.
In the late 1980’s my sister and her husband lived in Al Jubail which is near Kuwait. The town had a place known to the Westerners as “chop square”. You can guess the punishment meted out there.
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