Posted on 01/16/2017 12:24:28 PM PST by george76
Every woman in Saudi Arabia, regardless of age, has a legal male guardian, often a father or brother or son. Guardians have the power to make a range of critical decisions on a woman's behalf. Women need to get their permission to travel abroad, marry and sometimes to work or access health care.
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The guardianship system is "the most significant impediment to realizing women's rights in the country.
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Throughout the summer Saudi women began tweeting, detailing the injustices of the guardianship system -- risking the wrath of their guardians and the government in doing so.
They got noticed. In September, the country's most senior religious authority, the Grand Mufti, described the social media campaign as a "crime targeting the Saudi and Muslim society." But they haven't stopped.
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Many women simply can't get out .. They do not have the means and they need the permission of their guardian to leave their house or to leave the country."
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Both Arwa and Moudi left behind families of relative wealth.
"What good are materials and wealth when we can't be free?" ..
Their exits were facilitated by having previously studied in the US, where they both have a small support network of friends, and the finances necessary to secretly put aside enough to make the move.
Renouncing Islam.
Wahhabism, the conservative official interpretation of Islam in Saudi Arabia, ensures Sharia Law in the country and helps protect the male guardian system.
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a newsletter in which she and two others were declared apostates.
The short newsletter post, which she said was distributed in her local area, detailed how she and two others from her town renounced Islam on social media.
"The punishment for it can be death," the article reminds its readers.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
We should encourage them. In addition to attacking from the outside we need to encourage Isamism to rot from within.
Religion of tolerance. So preaches the party of tolerance.
I wish the best outcome for anyone, man or woman who has the courage and clarity of thought to leave Islam. It cannot be easy to knowingly reject all you have been brought up to believe. Many times it’s not even safe. My prayers for your safety.
They are afraid the Amish at home will beat them. /s
They will lose their heads if they are returned to Saudi Arabia.
cloudmountain will be along anytime now to extoll the wonders of the Kingdom and Islam.
Why would the US grant asylum to a British national? What do they have to fear?
Islam is an abomination. There’s nothing worth salvaging in that ideology and those that adhere to it are and will always be a threat to the world in general and the west in particular.
Solution: Kick out any country from the U.N. that punishes either directly or indirectly any act of Apostasy of their citizens.
This would clean up the UN “Human rights” council overnight to something that more closely resembles a “human rights” council.
A feminist’s dream...
Surprisingly our so-called women's libbers don't seem to want to help out in doing that.
I am glad these Saudi women left Islam instead of taking the fools errand route of trying to reform it.
Islam is not reform able because of the documented rigid examples set by Muhammad, Allah's prophet, and perfect man.
Saudi Arabia is absolutely ripe for Christian missionary work right now. However, I suspect that they probably give the death penalty for those who teach “Jesus is the way, and the truth, and the life”
Our dear Saudi allies
The USA made a deal with the devil when we got into bed with them over maintaining the petrodollar and working with them supposed “stability” in the mid-east.
Maybe we could send new Muslim convert and certified moron Lindsey Lohan to SA as a replacement slave.
Their exits were facilitated by having previously studied in the US, where they both have a small support network of friends, and the finances necessary to secretly put aside enough to make the move.
I have no use for any false religion including Islam, but the fact that these people had already studied in the U.S. shows that they are not exactly with out freedom, and how many people who were really mistreated could have enough money to leave their country?
I am free but i could not come up with enough money to cross my country if i wanted to, much less leave it.
And did not get through grade school, much less go to another country to study.
I believe there is too much of sticking our nose into the business of other countries, we need to keep the Islam Terriosts OUT of our country but we need to leave them alone to run their own country.
Each country should have their own traditions and it is not up to you or me to approve of them.
A one world Government is the most horrifing loathing thing i can think of.
Isn’t is just amazing that the democrats, who purport to be so pro women’s rights, support islamists so, and want to wear the hijab, etc. in support of islam?
Every Muslim is a totalitarian thug.
Every liberal is a totalitarian thug.
So much in common ...
They don’t need permission to put rat poison in their rapists’ dinner.
I never noticed that she was in love with islam. You might want to notify her. I won’t because I’m not a squealer.
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