WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST - A BACKWARD SOCIETY WITH LOTS A MONEY
The issue of women in islamic socitey and middle eastern countries is extremely controversial..
The islamic law is the product of Quranic guidelines.
Women's right in marriage is minute.
Women's right in marriage is minute.
They have no decision in who they are to be set up with.
The Qur'an states: "Men are the maintainers and protectors of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women)."
Women Driving Cars Is a Sinful Thing: Al-Qarni
Raid Qusti, Arab News Staff
Raid Qusti, Arab News Staff
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that prevents women from driving, studying law and engineering, directly selling or buying property, attending court (even when accused of murder), and showing their faces in public."
Saudi Arabia cracks down on ‘driving while female’
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA—Before dawn last Sunday, several police cars descended on the home of Manal Al Sharif, a single mother and Internet security specialist employed by Saudi oil giant ARAMCO.
Al Sharif, 32, was taken into custody for something that is only an offence in Saudi Arabia: Driving while female.
According to her lawyer, she was charged with “inciting women to drive” and “rallying public opinion.” Al Sharif had launched a campaign to defy the kingdom’s ban on female drivers by urging Saudi women to get behind the wheel of a car on June 17.
Like their peers elsewhere in the Arab world, Al Sharif and other pro-driving activists used the online tools of Facebook (“I Will Drive Starting June 17”) and Twitter (#Women2Drive) to organize their campaign.
“We are not here to . . . challenge the authorities, we are here to claim one of our simplest rights,” Al Sharif wrote in an email. “. . . It’s about time!”
Last week, Al Sharif began driving around her hometown of Al Khobar, posting a video to YouTube of her first foray into civil disobedience, apparently aiming to inspire other women.
In the past, women caught driving were taken to a police station and released within hours to their father or brother after promising not to drive again.
The harsher treatment meted out to Al Sharif, whose detention was extended another 10 days on Thursday, is easily explained: Rattled by the youth-led movements that have upended decades of complacency and apathy in other Arab countries, Saudi Arabia has no intention of allowing anything similar.
The June 17 Facebook page drew more than 13,000 supporters before it was shut down after Al Sharif’s arrest.
The government’s response suggests that “they want to break her down, to stop all others from driving on the 17th,” said Wajeha Al Huwaider, a veteran Saudi women’s activist.
It appears to be working. “We cannot think this would happen to any Saudi woman . . . This is a disaster,” said a young Saudi who had planned to join the June protest. “After what happened with her, I’m afraid. I have to admit it. I don’t want to go to jail.”
Al Sharif, who is divorced and has a 5-year-old son, spoke in her YouTube video about the inconveniences of not being allowed to drive. Although she has an international driver’s licence, she must hail cabs or depend on her brother to chauffeur her. Like many Saudis, she resents paying $350-$400 a month for a driver.
Besides, pro-driving women argue, the ban forces them to spend time in a car with a strange man, most of them foreigners. If women could drive, an estimated 750,000 foreign drivers could be sent home, they add.
Many government officials and royal family members, including the king and at least two senior princesses, have indicated they favor lifting the ban.
There is nothing in Islam forbidding women to drive and no Saudi law proscribing it. Instead, it is a strongly held tradition given a religious gloss by fundamentalist clerics and their conservative followers who view women driving as the door to more female independence and Western lifestyles.
Hardline clerics accused her of being sinful and manipulated by foreigners; one called for her to be flogged in public. Men opposed to women driving created a Facebook page urging that women drivers be beaten with aguls, the black band men use to keep their headpieces in place.
More level-headed religious scholars reiterated their position that women drivers are Islamically acceptable, even in Saudi Arabia’s traditional society.
Meanwhile, in an unusual statement Thursday, the deputy interior minister, Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz, suggested ambivalence about the ministry’s detention of Al Sharif. “Our mission is to implement the system,” he said, “but whether this action is right or wrong is not for us to say.”
In 1990, more than 40 Saudi women who protested the ban by driving around Riyadh for an hour were severely punished. They lost their jobs and were banned from travel abroad for a year. In mosques, they were called whores.
Al Sharif’s tech-savvy supporters are not abandoning her. A petition on Facebook asking the king to release her and state clearly where he stands on the driving ban, got more than 1,300 signatures by Thursday.
On Twitter, her backers are making sure her story gets international attention, complete with her own logo.
It states, “We are all Manal Al Sharif.”
They have no right in owning property.
They are considered the property of men and if their husband should die, his belongings go to his sons.
In other words she must be able to give her husband male children.
While it might be common to see a girl in school , it would be out of the ordinary to see her in normal classes with boys.
While it might be common to see a girl in school , it would be out of the ordinary to see her in normal classes with boys.
Though there are no actual restrictions against women enrolling in scholastic education,
TERRORISM: THAT'S PERSONAL
The St. Petersburg Times photoblog posted a graphic and powerful look at women in the Middle East attacked with acid. The photos are horrifying and it’s hard to imagine myself living in a world where this act exists as a very normal thing. It’s photos like this that make me realize that the world needs a lot of change sooner rather than later.
Women must cover themselves at all times out of their home.
They are not allowed to leave their house unless they are with a man or their husband.
Women actually have a wide range of occupations: nurses, doctors, investors, brokers, farmers.
Surprisingly the divorce rate in the middle east was higher that it is today in the middle ages. According to Al-Sakhawi, as many as three out of ten marriages in 15th century Cairo ended in divorce.
Surprisingly the divorce rate in the middle east was higher that it is today in the middle ages. According to Al-Sakhawi, as many as three out of ten marriages in 15th century Cairo ended in divorce.
In Islamic society, men and women who are not married are not aloud to be alone with one another. Islam gave women the right to own their own ppossessions. However, once she is married, legally her husband has the dominant ownership of everything she owns.
Therefore as it is obvious, women in Islamic/Muslim society do not have the same rights as men and are not equal.
Therefore as it is obvious, women in Islamic/Muslim society do not have the same rights as men and are not equal.
I disagree. Women in Islamic society have every right and in true Islamic society women have equal right as to their men counterpart. Islam gave women the right to own their possession and even once they got married, with out their consent her husband has no right to dominate ownership of everything she owns, respectively she has all the right on all the things her husband owns. If you look at the past history including the dark ages you will find that it was only true Islamic society who gave right and respect to women in society
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