Posted on 06/23/2018 10:28:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Since May, the Saudi government has arrested at least a dozen women’s rights advocates, accusing them of nefarious contacts with foreign parties and branding them traitors in the press.
The crackdown has been seen by some as a warning from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to other activists: Reforms are a gift from the leadership to Saudi citizens, not rights that can be won.
The activists did not limit themselves to the driving campaign. They fought for survivors of domestic violence, women shackled by restrictive guardianship laws and political prisoners. They represented different generations of Saudi women, trying over decades to bend the will of a harshly conservative and often obdurate state. Some garnered international acclaim.
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When a Saudi cleric was accused of raping and beating to death his 5-year-old daughter, Aziza al-Yousef helped start a rare public awareness campaign that focused international attention on the case as well as on the larger issue of inequality in Saudi Arabia’s justice system.
Fayhan al-Ghamdi, was sentenced in 2013 to eight years in prison but was released in 2015, after paying compensation to the mother of his daughter, Lama.
Yousef.... continued pressing for equal justice and repeal of the guardianship laws, appearing on television shows, meeting with officials and hosting a regular salon at her house to discuss women’s rights.
In the run-up to a driving protest she helped organize in October 2013, she told journalists she had been defying the driving ban for at least two years.
“I’ve been driving around Riyadh since then and haven’t had any real problems,” she told a reporter for the Telegraph newspaper. “Twice someone ran at my car and made threatening gestures — one old man, one younger — but it was no big deal.
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Now stop it. Quite a few people love the Sauds now because they are fighting our “worse” enemy.
Forget those silly folks who just wanted to go to work and go home on 9/11 all those years ago.
And my two firefighter pals who died of lung cancer later on.
We need to be “pragmatic”
Those women should do the smart thing and grab their kids and get on an airliner. Fly to Mexico City, take a bus to the border and put in for asylum. They’ll get 3 hot meals a day, snacks, live in air conditioned quarters, their kids will attend school, they’ll have free medical, dental and eyeglasses, clothing, toiletries, shower facilities, social workers, court-appointed lawyers, recreation, religious services, etc.
I know so little of the world outside the US that I dont know if you can buy airline tickets there as easily as you can here.
I know you’ve been around so you would likely know.
They need a male relative’s permission to do step one...
Bribe a brother or cousin. Baksheesh.
Apparently the Saudi government is catching up with the West in suppressing wrongthink and freedom.
“Catching up?” They’ve been ahead of us at that game for about 1,300 years.
Colluding with the Russians???
Well, you’re right, but in this day and age it’s much more visible to the world (if that matters).
The point being that Western Governments are more and more totalitarian fascist GB, Canada, Sweden, EU, etc.
If he accepts he had better go with her.
If he doesn’t his life is likely forfeit.
That REALLY sux, doesn’t it?
All cultures are equal, huh?
If only there was no oil. Nobody would care about the Middle East.
If only there was no cheap tech labor, no one would care about India.
If only there was no cheap manufacturing, no one would care about China.
I remember reading an account of a parent of a World Trade Center victim; she bemoaned the fact that oil money gave these “primitive” people far more influence than they would ever have otherwise. Very sad...
If only there was no cheap manufacturing, no one would care about China.
Oil is a natural resource. Your examples are human resources.
The Arabs have the luck of living above a valuable resource. As a people, they are failures. They have to import workers because their people don't do crap.
The man in the family holds their passports so they cannot travel without his permission.
Your association with your lung cancer dead friends with Saudi Arabia is not justified.
they worked in the pit cleaning up asbestos garbage for a YEAR so being associated with a dick is appropriate
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