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Old 09-26-2017, 01:46 PM
 
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King Salman had issued a decree allowing women to be given driving licences, the Saudi Press Agency said.

Saudi women to be allowed driving licences - BBC News

 
Old 09-26-2017, 02:18 PM
 
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Imagine if the restrictions that Saudi Arabia and much of the Muslim world place upon women, were mandated for all people of color? Would we be tolerating, allying ourselves with, and even championing countries and cultures that treated people of color the way that the Arab and Muslim world treats women? I won't even mention what they do to LGBQT people!

Imagine a country where half the population is essentially enslaved - no right to travel, work, even obtain healthcare without the permission of their master? That's Saudi Arabia - just that since the half of the population that is enslaved is female, and because they have oil money, we just look the other way.
 
Old 09-26-2017, 02:32 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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Imagine if the restrictions that Saudi Arabia and much of the Muslim world place upon women, were mandated for all people of color? Would we be tolerating, allying ourselves with, and even championing countries and cultures that treated people of color the way that the Arab and Muslim world treats women? I won't even mention what they do to LGBQT people!

Imagine a country where half the population is essentially enslaved - no right to travel, work, even obtain healthcare without the permission of their master? That's Saudi Arabia - just that since the half of the population that is enslaved is female, and because they have oil money, we just look the other way.
Not just oil money; they have the oil.
 
Old 09-26-2017, 09:51 PM
 
Location: H-town, TX.
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Imagine if the restrictions that Saudi Arabia and much of the Muslim world place upon women, were mandated for all people of color? Would we be tolerating, allying ourselves with, and even championing countries and cultures that treated people of color the way that the Arab and Muslim world treats women? I won't even mention what they do to LGBQT people!

Imagine a country where half the population is essentially enslaved - no right to travel, work, even obtain healthcare without the permission of their master? That's Saudi Arabia - just that since the half of the population that is enslaved is female, and because they have oil money, we just look the other way.
Nobody is stopping NOW, FEMEN or any other human rights org from making a stop in Saudi, I promise you. You would be a-OK to fire off a fax to the Jews in charge to get that going, but...they're too cushy with Sunnis and trying to stir things up in Syria again.

They're not worried about the plight of fellow Semites, but wrecking western civilization instead.

 
Old 09-27-2017, 07:34 AM
 
Location: Boonies of N. Alabama
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They must have decided they needed the women to run errands that the men are tired of dealing with.
 
Old 09-27-2017, 08:15 AM
 
Location: Louisville
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Way to controversial of a topic to be discussed here.
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