I was hesitant to write again about the subject of Saudi women, but I concluded, after much consideration, the entire topic is more serious than I originally anticipated. My reasons are simply as follows:
1. Women are our mothers, daughters, wives, sisters and others and they affect if not influence virtually all aspects of our lives.
2. Women comprise more than half of our country’s population, and quite frankly, no real social development can be accomplished without them.
3. Islam is a great religion but some of us are sending the wrong message about this amazing religion by clinging to outmoded attitudes and repressing the basic civil rights of women.
4. Saudi Arabia has a moral responsibility to respect and protect human rights for all of its citizens.
5. We are indeed fortunate to have a monarch in Saudi Arabia who has been trying hard to liberalize women from a negative cultural legacy, and all of us need to support him in his efforts to grant women greater civil rights.
Unfortunately, in Saudi Arabia and around the world, there are always men who want to control women’s rights in the name of religion or otherwise. This is clearly not something that arises out of a vacuum or by coincidence, but is a deliberate and well-planned strategy by certain groups to dominate society; and the most effective way to achieve this objective is to maintain control over all aspects of a woman’s life
Categories: Saudi Arabia, Women Rights
thank you so much for writing this. it is a big issue and i hope this message will be brought to everyone’s mind when they read this.
Well, a long way to go. It seems that ARABNEWS removed the article… (I was trying to find out the author of the article)…