I am both baffled and amused by the phone contention of
left wingers
her that the United States is conducting a "war on women". Huh? I have
noticed that. I have a daughter and neither has she. Maybe the war is
in the bubble in which the leftists reside. They often cite pay
disparities, using phony statistics, as a basis of their concern that
there is some kind of discrimination against females here. That kind of
nonsense is the red flag that the issue is not a real one.
Therefore, I suggest those war on women types shift there emphasis to
where women really face unfair and unequal treatment..Saudi Arabia. Oh,
wait! The left says that all Muslims are perfect and above criticism
for anything. So I guess that shift in War on Women tactics won't
happen. But in Saudi Arabia itself there is starting to be recognition
of the War on Women there, a war started and continued by Islam itself
and a resistance for some Muslim countries to resist the modern world.
Saudi Arabia has just announced that women have the right to drive for
the first time in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
In a royal decree signed by King Salman bin Abdulaziz, the order on the
right to drive said it will be effective immediately but the roll out
will take months, according to the Saudi government. The decree said
that women would be allowed to drive "in accordance with the Islamic
laws." (Whatever that means) Saudi Arabia is the only country in the
world to bar females from driving, has received negative attention for
years for detaining women who defied its ban, though one would never
know that if listening to a member of the Democratic party here in the
U.S.
Saudi Activists are celebrating the news as a major development in a
country where women face extreme social and personal restrictions as a
result of the Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of the religion of
Islam. Women have not been not allowed to travel without the permission
of a male guardian. They also must cover their hair and bodies in
public under the law. Change in Saudi Arabia for women has come with
more Saudi women working in retail jobs and being appointed top
executive roles at the Saudi stock exchange and at the Saudi airport.
Women can now also be appointed to the Shoura Council and run in
municipal elections.
Some women in Saudi Arabia who have recently challenged the ban on
driving a car defied the accepted norm of their gender not driving have
not fared well. Manal al-Sharif was arrested for breaking the law in
2011 when she filmed herself cruising behind the wheel of a car
and uploaded the video to YouTube. Eventually she was released from
jail after international outcry. But Saudi Arabian policy still was
that women who drive become immoral. Democrats in the U.S. have raised
only a peep about it, instead focusing on the imagined War on Women
here. But then, the left wing bubble rarely includes reality.
Among other problems for women in Saudi Arabia include:
1. Women are not allowed to travel without the permission of a male
guardian, usually their father or husband.
2. They are not allowed to "dress for beauty" and must cover their hair
and bodies in public under the law.
3. Women are required to limit the amount of time spent with men to
whom they are not related.
4. A Saudi woman can not open a bank account without her husband's
permission.
5. Women can not eat freely in public. They must eat under their face
veil.
6. Women must limited physical closeness with other men and are
segregated from the opposite sex in most offices, banks and
universities.
Uh...cancel my vacation plans if they include Saudi Arabia.
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