Posted on 08/01/2010 11:42:54 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
For proof that man can take any great idea and turn it to evil comes a story from Saudi Arabia, our "ally" in the Mideast. This story also shows that advanced electronic technology isn't always the panacea to life's troubles that we always imagine it to be. In fact, to women in the oppressive Kingdom of Saudi Arabia it is an Orwellian monstrosity.
Courtesy of Benjamin Joffe-Walt from The Media Line we learn that the Saudi oppressors are using text messages to track the movement of the Kingdom's women, keeping tabs on them whenever they leave their homes.
Women’s rights activist Wajiha Al-Huwaidar reports to the west that when she walks out the door of her Saudi Arabian home her husband receives a text message on his phone to warn him of her apostasy. What evil has she perpetrated? Why she has left her home ostensibly without the permission of her husband.
You see, in the Saudi Kingdom, wives are basically owned by their husbands and the law essentially treats them like chattel. It is called "guardianship" and it gives all power and legal responsibility to the male treating the wife like property instead of a human...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Next they’ll be putting those dog shock collars on their womenfolk.
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