Women in America live a life that is about as diametrically opposed as can be from the life that Saudi women live. I lose patients when I hear American women,……

And really, it would be a far better world if there were no Saudi Arabia at all.

Tantor on July 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM

IMHO, you can add Iran and @$$crackistan to that list. We’re actually about to lose the latter…

Where is the feminist outrage from the western world in support of their Saudi sisters?

DL13 on July 12, 2009 at 5:01 PM

And what’s Sarah Palin saying about it?

Not only should Saudi women not be allowed out of Saudi Arabia, Saudi men should not be allowed out. And really, it would be a far better world if there were no Saudi Arabia at all.

Tantor on July 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM

I’ll go along with that

Not only should Saudi women not be allowed out of Saudi Arabia, Saudi men should not be allowed out. And really, it would be a far better world if there were no Saudi Arabia at all.

Especially in saudi arabia.

Well, seeing as you are stoned to death for infidelity…probably not many “single mothers” are alive.

right2bright on July 13, 2009 at 9:58 AM

Could be….I wonder how many women are on welfare there?

I do wonder what the percentage of children born to single mothers is there though. I know it’s killing our country here where women have the most freedom.

Jeff from WI on July 13, 2009 at 9:43 AM

Well, seeing as you are stoned to death for infidelity…probably not many “single mothers” are alive.

Literally, women can do nothing for themselves without the permission of their closest male relative, usually a husband, father, or brother, but in some cases a son. They cannot drive, they cannot vote,

Sorry, I read the story several times and fail to see the problem…It would take away the “I voted for him because he was so cute” effect, wait: That was Barney Frank….never mind.

The bigger problem is that it would be hypocritical (unless you have the good sense to be an atheist).

hicsuget on July 12, 2009 at 6:25 PM

Dude…

…atheism didn’t provide the passion for civil rights.

In the meantime, we have a MUCH bigger problem created by the post modern intelligentsia.

So does the Old Testament.

But we cannot judge islam, because that would be insensitive.

Rebar on July 12, 2009 at 1:31 PM
The bigger problem is that it would be hypocritical (unless you have the good sense to be an atheist).

hicsuget on July 12, 2009 at 6:25 PM

OK so so you want to compare how Israel treats its women to Saudi Arabia? Or are you trying to take a swipe at Christians as well as Jews? Quite a stretch don’t you think?

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Apostle Paul

So all believers are hypocritical because they condemn the oppression of females? You have to be an atheist to do that? Wow. You anti-theists are nasty.

So does the Old Testament.

The bigger problem is that it would be hypocritical (unless you have the good sense to be an atheist).

hicsuget on July 12, 2009 at 6:25 PM

Ah, the old “moral equivalency” canard.

The fact is, islam treats women as property RIGHT NOW TODAY, not 2000 years ago.

So shove that old tired leftist/atheist crap where it belongs.

And where is the support from feminists in this country? [crickets chirping]

rmgraha on July 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM

Bingo. Those brainless bra-burning b***hes have done a sum total of jack squat for women who are truly being oppressed.

islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.

LOL!! Not as smelly as lesbian feminists though…
My cousins have a dairy farm and I have a list of names from the feminist greats: Gloria, Margaret, Annie, Harriet, etc.

Fortunata on July 12, 2009 at 5:18 PM

lololol

One of my exploratory ventures had me cross paths with a Saudi woman in a short corridor where, for a brief moment, there were no Saudi men to object to her behaving as a human being. She made eye contact and smiled discreetly yet disarmingly, I reciprocated appropriately and we passed without a word. Had this occurred in the view of one of their religious police or even a Saudi male she would have been at the very least severely beaten.

Having come face to face with their religious police, many of which qualified to became such as a result of having memorized the koran in prison, and witnessing in their eyes a barely restrained desire to wield their staffs in the service of Allah’s demand for modesty and supremacy, I know beyond doubt the danger is very real to all Saudi women.

It was horrible to me to be in a society where showing respect or courtesy to a woman put her in danger, to know that the only way I could avoid bringing them harm was to behave as if they did not even exist. Yet this one woman, when she had the momentary liberty to express her humanity in a womanly fashion without consequence, did so warmly and without reservation, and I knew then that their supposed enthusiasm for their own captivity is a cruel lie. They would escape it if they could.

Shame our first Muslim President can’t speak out for freedom in the Islamic world, but Liberty is just not his style, being so Neo-Conservative and all, with all those pesky restrictions on would-be re-makers of society and on well-meaning dictators and such…