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Please don't tar _all_ Saudi men. I know a few (no, I have not met many, admittedly)who are kind and comparatively progressive. Of course, they now live _here_ and not there, so they bring down the numbers of kind men over there.

And it's not Islam that makes these men so cruel to their women. It's the mis-interpretation of their religion and their insanely misogynistic culture that encourages them.

The Q'ran states that "paradise is under the feet of the mother" and time and time again states that women must be respected, protected, loved and cared for.

But people are so stupid, so under-educated and so powerless that all some of them can do is beat up weaker ones.

It's the culture that needs to be changed - Saudi Arabia is not really a properly Islamic country - if it _were_ it would not have a royal family (and do we know who installed Saudi's royal family last century?), and its women would not be caged, beaten and would be allowed to take part in public life. They'd be allowed to drive cars, too.

Some of the Prophet Mohammed's wives were business women, they were teachers and they took part in society as respected, loved people.

The Saudis (and others) need to try to remember this.

Kim...