Saudi scholar Hatoon al-Fassi did a study about 'Women In Pre-Islamic Arabia' and found that women enjoyed more rights 1300 years ago than they are today in the Kingdom. (Middle East Online)
Saudi Arabia held a fantastic forum to discuss women's role in the workplace.
It was just too bad that no women were allowed inside the event.
Reuters and Dhimmi Watch reported:
When clerics, ministers and businessmen gathered at a forum in Riyadh in April to discuss women in the workplace, there were no women in sight.
Typically for Saudi Arabia, the women who took part were seated in a separate room so the men could only hear them.
Such things are part and parcel of the complex system of social control maintained by clerics of Saudi Arabia's austere version of Sunni Islamic law, often termed Wahhabism. It is a system called into question by scholar Hatoon al-Fassi.
In her study, Women In Pre-Islamic Arabia, the outspoken rights advocate argues women in the pre-Islamic period enjoyed considerable rights in the Nabataean state, an urban Arabian kingdom centred in modern Jordan, south Syria and north-west Saudi Arabia during the Roman empire.
Women's rights are being abused in Saudi Arabia?! Quick, someone call George W. Bush! Oh wait, he's the best friend the Saudi dictatorship has ever had in Washington. Too bad. Republicans only dislike dictators who don't like Republicans.
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gads you don't know too much aside from reading healines huh?? the Saudis loved Bill Clinton..
The Saudi investments in Bill and Hillary Clinton
not to mention the Rockefellers..
flashback: May 1991
but then alas, they had a falling out of sorts..
THE WAR AGAINST THE SAUDIS
excerpts:
[THE ROCKEFELLER CONNECTION
In return for US aid and support for the House of Saud, King Ibn Saud granted Aramco a monopoly over the production of Saudi oil at the end of World War II. Aramco is a consortium of companies, with Exxon, Mobil, and Socal – all Rockefeller-connected – granted 70 percent ownership, and Texaco granted the rest. A premier example of crony capitalism, the Rockefeller-Saudi alliance translated into multi-millions in subsidies through the Export-Import Bank, so that the King could build his own personal railroad from his capital to the summer palace. Franklin Roosevelt took money out of the war budget to prepare the way for Rockefeller's pipelines. In return, the Saudis granted the US an airbase at Dharan, conveniently near the oil fields. Smalltime capitalists hire private security guards to protect their property, but the big boys – or, at least, some of them – have the use of the American military.]
[TWO CAN PLAY
A very interesting comment, that last: what are these "competing projects"? This is none other than the Transcaucasian "Silk Road" pipeline project, slated to extend from the Caspian Sea oilfields to Turkey, and perhaps down through Afghanistan to the Indian Ocean. This project has long been on the drawing boards, and the Clinton administration took it up with alacrity, even going so far as to set up a special department to facilitate its creation. If the foreign oil companies were going to try to go around them, said the Prince in so many words, then two could play that game:]
[BUSH PAYS THE PRICE
So far, President Bush has made it plain that he does not mean to wage war on Islam, and for that he is being made to pay a price. While his State Department is struggling to undo the damage done by the anti-Saudi media and the Lieberman-Levine assault in Congress, a grand coalition of left and right is pushing for World War III in the Middle East – a war that, given the presence of Pakistan and India (not to mention Israel) in the equation, could quickly go nuclear.]
RTWT, you might learn something, i know i did, that's why i continue to do research..
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