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Real War on Women: Saudi Arabia Implements ‘Wife-Tracking’ System
Townhall.com ^ | November 24, 2012 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 11/24/2012 8:11:02 PM PST by Kaslin

Remember the “war on women” the GOP is supposedly waging? I wonder what progressive women would dub this:

Saudi Arabia has long been the only country in the world that does not allow women to drive. Now, there appears to be a new development in controlling the movements of its female population: the Kingdom has reportedly introduced an electronic tracking system alerting male guardians when a woman has left the country.

Reports emerged of the system last week when Manal al-Sherif, a women’s rights campaigner who has urged women to defy the driving ban, was alerted by a husband who received a message from the immigration authorities advising him that his wife had left the international airport in Riyadh. He happened to be traveling with her. [...]

The system notifying male guardians that their dependents—which includes their wife, children and foreign workers sponsored by them—had left the country appears to have been in place for a couple of years now. Ahmed Al Omran, a Saudi blogger, explains that it appears that this service, which in the past was an opt-out service, is now reaching those who had previously registered their details with the Ministry of Interior.

“The problem is not that there is now an electronic system that sends an SMS when women travel,” writes Omran. “The problem is that the government is enforcing rules of male guardianships even on the rest of us who don’t believe in such rules.”

Equality is a foreign concept to women in Saudi Arabia. A Human Rights Watch report notes that women in the Kingdom live in a discriminatory system that requires women and girls to get permission from their male guardians before they can study, work or travel. The Blaze aptly notes that this “effectively [treats] an adult woman like a piece of property. Some have called this slavery.” Indeed.

Abortion, birth control, equal pay and binders…the real war on women is not in America.

 

H/T: The Blaze


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: equality; saudiarabia; waronwomen; women

1 posted on 11/24/2012 8:11:06 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

You would think it’d be a bit late AFTER they have left.


2 posted on 11/24/2012 8:23:49 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Kaslin

“It is 10am, do you know where your wife is?”

Lojack - Saudi Wife Version


3 posted on 11/24/2012 8:30:32 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Kaslin

I need something like this that beeps when my wife is within range of the fridge to remind her to make a sandwich.


4 posted on 11/24/2012 8:30:47 PM PST by deadrock
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To: Kaslin
“The problem is that the government is enforcing rules of male guardianships even on the rest of us who don’t believe in such rules.”

Sound somewhat familiar?

5 posted on 11/24/2012 8:31:00 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Kaslin

But what about respecting their backwards 7th century murderous culture?


6 posted on 11/24/2012 8:52:11 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Kaslin

He gets warned but she still gets away... so far


7 posted on 11/24/2012 8:53:04 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Kaslin

I’m sure the UN approves.


8 posted on 11/24/2012 8:57:01 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: Kaslin
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Winston Churchill 1899
9 posted on 11/24/2012 10:05:04 PM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Kaslin
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Winston Churchill 1899
10 posted on 11/24/2012 10:05:06 PM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Kaslin

I need one of those when my wife and I are in the store shopping. If I lose sight of her it is impossible to find her.

Where do women go when they are in a department store?


11 posted on 11/24/2012 11:17:16 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom
Where do women go when they are in a department store?

The cash register to ring it all up, old boy.

12 posted on 11/24/2012 11:29:14 PM PST by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
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To: Kaslin

LoJackie


13 posted on 11/25/2012 5:20:02 AM PST by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
He gets warned but she still gets away... so far

Next comes the explosive implant.

14 posted on 11/25/2012 6:17:42 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Kaslin

Obama’s Top White House Aides are Almost All Men

by Keith Koffler on November 28, 2012, 9:31 am

As President Obama moves to revamp his senior White House staff in the weeks leading up to Inauguration Day, he may want to consider adding something distinctly lacking from the highest echelons of the West Wing: Diversity.

Incredibly, nearly all the most senior advisors to the nation’s first black president – whose appeal to minorities and women won him reelection – are white males. Democrats made much during the campaign of an alleged GOP “war on women.” But Obama’s own battalions include relatively few of the distaff variety.

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/


15 posted on 11/28/2012 7:31:41 AM PST by KeyLargo
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