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Dear Csandra;
I wanted someone to hear the story about this oppresed girl in Saudi Arabia, so I decided to post it so you may have an idea of what really is going on.
No doubt that we are living in quite difficult times in which human rights have reached a point in which it became worthless. 700 people getting slaughtered in Gaza and no does nothing, it became a normal phenomena. The matter is that many citizens in Saudi Arabia have shown deep remorse and extreme outrage of what is going on, and continuously ask question such as: “until when will Muslims be oppressed?” Well let me put it this way, before looking at your neighbors back yard start looking at your own, and before occupying yourself about others problems start by looking at your own. People here talk about oppression as if the only oppression going on has been committed by Jews, Americans, Mongols …etc forgetting that within the Saudi society sever oppression is continuously and excessively taking place without seeming to ever abate. We judge the morality of a society by the way the most vulnerable are treated, and I believe _as well as facts and statistics indicate_ that Women in Saudi Arabia are mistreated and oppressed severely. This must stop, for enough is enough.

True, the topic is not new, it takes place on a daily bases, but there comes a time that some cases just get out of hand and that something must be done. Within the last months of year 2008 there was an incident that has been quite shocking to me, and I just was informed by it recently. A young American girl in her early twenties was suspected of dating a boy friend (mind it was only a rumor, it never reached to any level of reality) and that she would meet him after classes. The father who happened to be from a Saudi tribe decided to take action based on the repost of his teenage son. They waited for her outside Dammam College. As soon as she has been detected in their visual spectrum, the both (father and son) rushed to her and embarked on their disciplinary process, beating her in front of teachers, drivers, students and police, but no one dared to take action. Well that’s how it ended then back in 2008, but what about her now? She is in house arrest under her father’s law and no one is able to contact her until today.

Unfortunately, this is one of the simplest examples, no one dares to help. The pattern of events are quite repetitive and well known to the extend that these stories are never taken into consideration. Teenage boys have serious problems within the kingdom. They have all the right to flirt with girls as long it is secretive__ and due to their unrestricted mobility, they can do as they please without being caught. Due to their indulgence they come to suspect heir female relatives and tend to exercise their manhood by disciplining them. To make things worse, in the Saudi culture males (no matter how young or old) tend to have full credibility and authority over females, thus surrendering the fate of these vulnerable women to these immature degenerated teens.

In most world cultures, men who beat women are regarded as cowards, but in Saudi Arabia they are regarded as men who are heroic and tend to protect their dignity and honor. They suppress their women from the most basic human rights, such as going out to a restaurant or even a store, then they dare to condemn others of injustices and oppression.

By no means do I mean to understate what has been going on Gaza, oppression is oppression, what ever the scale is or the place, but it was the irony of the approach off these narrow minded extremist and their perception of life that triggered me to state this point: “Before you criticize the actions of others, start by criticizing yourselves”, and that if you can’t lift the injustice that is taking place in front of your own eyes within your house holds, then don’t expect any positive outcomes.

bo 08 Jan 2009, 11:43 - Report