04-27-2007, 07:02 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Apr 26 2007, 09:02 PM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Apr 26 2007, 09:02 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Saudi working women find it hard to be 'free'</b>
[right][snapback]67881[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Very depressing <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Even animals are free (wild animals).
So many restrictive experiences described in there, but this one struck me as a new, morbid way of controlling one half of the world's population:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Women are also banned from driving; so women like Asmaa have to take taxis to work, or be driven by their fathers or male relatives.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Imagine, you can't even drive yourself to freedom. They're kept totally reliant.
Arabian women (and men) deserve better than to be treated like domestic animals or to be brought up treating the other half as such. Whenever I think, 'if only India could be free of terrorism and islamic laws and appeasement', I should remember Saudi women, Iranian women and Afghan women. What good is freedom, if it is not shared by all.
If they choose to, as many muslim women do, let them wear burkhas and such. But don't push them into it and beat them up for slight deviations from it. How can Arabian men be happy when their women suffer? Many young Iranian men can't stand it (read this on forums - although the same Iranians also tend to be apostates), and I'm sure the same is true of Arabian men.
They showed this documentary on the Emirates recently and how it was growing and many luxuries were entering the country. They showed this very rich young woman, without burkha and decked in the latest fashion and jewellery, who was passionate about jewellery. I wondered if she ever thinks about the freedom she enjoys due to her wealthy and more open-minded family, and whether she then thinks about the plight of her female compatriots. How can she bear it. I feel guilty and it's not even my religion or country.
[right][snapback]67881[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Very depressing <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Even animals are free (wild animals).So many restrictive experiences described in there, but this one struck me as a new, morbid way of controlling one half of the world's population:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Women are also banned from driving; so women like Asmaa have to take taxis to work, or be driven by their fathers or male relatives.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Imagine, you can't even drive yourself to freedom. They're kept totally reliant.
Arabian women (and men) deserve better than to be treated like domestic animals or to be brought up treating the other half as such. Whenever I think, 'if only India could be free of terrorism and islamic laws and appeasement', I should remember Saudi women, Iranian women and Afghan women. What good is freedom, if it is not shared by all.
If they choose to, as many muslim women do, let them wear burkhas and such. But don't push them into it and beat them up for slight deviations from it. How can Arabian men be happy when their women suffer? Many young Iranian men can't stand it (read this on forums - although the same Iranians also tend to be apostates), and I'm sure the same is true of Arabian men.
They showed this documentary on the Emirates recently and how it was growing and many luxuries were entering the country. They showed this very rich young woman, without burkha and decked in the latest fashion and jewellery, who was passionate about jewellery. I wondered if she ever thinks about the freedom she enjoys due to her wealthy and more open-minded family, and whether she then thinks about the plight of her female compatriots. How can she bear it. I feel guilty and it's not even my religion or country.