Saudi Arabia Just Detained A Woman Who Wanted To Allow Women To Drive.

[SavedByGrace1980]

Saudi Arabia Just Detained A Woman Who Wanted To Allow Women To Drive. Muslim Women Are Fighting Back Against Islamist Oppressors.

 

Saudi authorities have arrested prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, according to a report by Amnesty International. Hathloul was detained at the King Fahad International Airport in Dammamin Saudi Arabia on Sunday, June 4.

The reason for her arrest has not been been explicitly articulated, as Saudi authorities keep Hathloul under detention without access to any legal representation. It’s fair to say that al-Hathloul’s women’s rights campaigning and human rights activism likely had something to do with her arrest.

Amnesty International has learned that she was detained before leaving Dammam for Riyadh. The Kingdom’s Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution is set to interrogate Hathloul with the full backing of the state.

Amnesty International in the Middle East’s Director of Campaigns, Samah Hadid, details the concerns surrounding Hathloul’s case:

The Saudi Arabian authorities’ continuous harassment of Loujain al-Hathloul is absurd and unjustifiable. It appears she is being targeted once again because of her peaceful work as a human rights defender speaking out for women's rights, which are consistently trammeled in the kingdom. If so she must be immediately and unconditionally released.

Instead of upholding its promise of a more tolerant Saudi Arabia, the government has again shattered any notion that it is genuinely committed to upholding equality and human rights.

This is the second time al-Hathloul was been detained by Saudi authorities.

According to Amnesty International, Hathloul “was detained for 73 days after she defied the kingdom’s de facto driving ban for women by attempting to drive into Saudi Arabia from the United Arab Emirates on 30 November 2014.”

Defiantly, Hathloul later went on to put her name up as a candidate in Saudi Arabia’s largely symbolic municipal elections in November 2015. While the positions that were voted on were technically bereft of any real power, that year’s municipal elections were the first time women were allowed to not only vote but stand for elections. But even then, Hathloul was disenfranchised by the state. As Amnesty International notes, “despite finally being recognized as a candidate, her name was never added to the ballot.”

Saudi Arabia’s brand of strict Sunni Islam has terrorized the lives of women with merciless force.

For decades, conservative Wahhabist clerics have been pushing the materialistic Saudi monarchy to enforce puritanical Islamic practices codified in medieval religious texts. Fearing a coup similar to the one successfully executed in 1979 by Shiite mullahs in Iran, the House of Saud has generally acquiesced to Wahhabist demands. After a series of concessions, Saudi Arabia has devolved into a sterile den of Islamic moral purity where only elite royals are still granted allowances to indulge in carnal desires and material pursuits.

To suggest that Saudi Arabia’s domestic policy toward women is unpleasant is an understatement. Misogyny is sutured into the body politic of Saudi Arabia. Gendered minefields, weaponized as dictates, corporal punishments, and regressive social constructs menace women from Riyadh to Jeddah.

Saudi laws read like a catalog of draconian gender-policing. Women are prohibited from driving, leaving their house without a male relative (referred to as a mahram), and voting in non-municipal elections. This social construction of space and gender serves to marginalize women through a conscious process of othering, reasserting gender hierarchies and its discontents. The House of Saud’s concerted efforts to oppress women is not just a symptom of a single statute or policy, but a syndrome of absolute, totalitarian patriarchy invariably stitched into the fiber of the regime. “Saudi Arabia’s restrictions on women go far, far beyond just driving though. It is a larger system of customs and laws that make women heavily reliant on men for their basic, day-to-day survival,“ said The Washington Post’s Max Fisher.

This is the same Saudi Arabia that was once appointed to head the United Nations Human Rights panel. Yes, seriously.

Saudi Arabia is one of worst human rights violators in the world. In a kingdom that functions more like a feudal monarchy than a modern nation-state, dissent, particularly dissent espoused by truefeminists like Hathloul, is quickly crushed.

Human Rights Watch reports:

Saudi authorities in 2017 continued to arbitrarily arrest, try, and convict peaceful dissidents. Dozens of human rights defenders and activists are serving long prison sentences for criticizing authorities or advocating political and rights reforms. Authorities systematically discriminate against women and religious minorities. In 2016, Saudi Arabia carried out 154 executions, 23 for non-violent drug crimes. On January 2, 2016, Saudi Arabia executed 47 men for terrorism-related offenses, including prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, who was convicted following a deeply flawed trial.

And yet, despite all odds, despite the barbarity of anachronistic, patriarchal Wahhabist Islam, despite the stone-faced imams carrying whips and sticks to beat the living hell out of “disobedient" women, despite the historically-grounded religious edicts and codified theological sanctification of gender-based violence, glimpses of light have burned brightly in the darkness. Over the last year alone, thousands upon thousands of Saudi women have begun fighting back against their virtual enslavement. Last September, The Daily Wire reported that “women across the kingdom have taken to Twitter to voice their grievances and tell their stories in hopes of challenging their oppressors and ultimately putting an end to the vile religious dictate of male guardianship. Under the hashtag #TogetherToEndMaleGuardianship, millions of people from around the world are throwing their support behind the campaign calling for immediate social reform.”

While they weren’t joined by parochial third-wave White Western feminists who’d rather initiate a crusade against “offensive” pop-song lyrics than ruffle the feathers of sacrosanct Islam, their voices were magnified by supporters hailing from New York, London, Dhaka, and all corners of the world in an effort to place historically unprecedented people-powered external pressure on Riyadh.

This particular movement may have faded, but it hasn’t faded away into the darkness.

Everyday courageous Muslim women, women like Loujain al-Hathloul, are defiantly joining their sisters in Tehran, Cairo, Jakarta and elsewhere, sacrificing their own bodies in the process, to demand freedom and equality, to demand long overdue change in the Islamist social order, to say enough is enough. 

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[SavedByGrace1980]

Just a reminder of what Sharia law looks like. It is NOT compatible with the 21st Century.

And is IS NOT a 'both sides are just as bad' deal.

Blessings,

-Ed

[other one]

People seem to not want to perceive. 

[Running Gator]

1 hour ago, SavedByGrace1981 said:

Just a reminder of what Sharia law looks like. It is NOT compatible with the 21st Century.

And is IS NOT a 'both sides are just as bad' deal.

Blessings,

-Ed

And yet this country is our "best buddy" and we are going to sell them state of the art weapons systems. 

What does that say about our country?

[SavedByGrace1980]

2 minutes ago, Running Gator said:

What does that say about our country?

Not much - in the Christian sense.  But I suppose it's a matter of 'pragmatism'.

Kinda like FDR and the Allies joining forces with 'Uncle Joe' Stalin (murderer of millions) in WWII.

Blessings,

-Ed

[PlanetChee]

4 hours ago, SavedByGrace1981 said:

Just a reminder of what Sharia law looks like. It is NOT compatible with the 21st Century.

And is IS NOT a 'both sides are just as bad' deal.

Blessings,

-Ed

I wonder what else that isn't yet reported that this woman has allegedly done to warrant her detention? There has been a defiance women's driving rights movement there since 2013.

Why can't women drive in Saudi Arabia?

• 27 October 2013

This is the culture in the 21st century wherein women are property of their husbands or fathers. I pray for her. Because I doubt very much she's going un-abused in custody. 
 

Quran (4:34)

- "Men are in charge 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). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them." Quran (2:228) - "and the men are a degree above them" Quran (33:59) - "Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them..." Men determine how women dress. Quran (33:33) - "And abide quietly in your homes..." Women are confined to their homes except when they have permission to go out. Quran (2:223) - "Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will."Wives are to be sexually available to their husbands in all ways at all times. They serve their husbands at his command. This verse is believed to refer to anal sex (see Bukhari 60:51), and was "revealed" when women complained to Muhammad about the practice. The phrase "when and how you will" means that they lost their case. Quran (66:5) - "Maybe, his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your place wives better than you, submissive, faithful, obedient, penitent, adorers, fasters, widows and virgins" A disobedient wife can be replaced.

[wingnut-]

5 hours ago, SavedByGrace1981 said:

Not much - in the Christian sense.  But I suppose it's a matter of 'pragmatism'.

Kinda like FDR and the Allies joining forces with 'Uncle Joe' Stalin (murderer of millions) in WWII.

Blessings,

-Ed

 

Or like when we armed and trained a bunch of fellas in Afghanistan to fight against the Soviets?  Does the name Bin Laden ring any bells? 

[SavedByGrace1980]

7 minutes ago, wingnut- said:

 

Or like when we armed and trained a bunch of fellas in Afghanistan to fight against the Soviets?  Does the name Bin Laden ring any bells? 

And those would be the same Soviets we fought WITH in WWII (just a mere 35 years earlier).  

I think Ike was right in '60 (when he warned of the military industrial complex).  Someone DOES profit in every 'conflict' we engage in - either directly or indirectly.  And it's seldom the people.

World situations do change - I understand that.  It's just that our so-called 'leaders' don't seem to always think long term - or what consequences today's actions may have on tomorrow.

I wish we could stay the heck out of the middle east - leave the Saudis and the Iranians to knock each other off.

Blessings,

-Ed

[wingnut-]

2 minutes ago, SavedByGrace1981 said:

And those would be the same Soviets we fought WITH in WWII (just a mere 35 years earlier).  

I think Ike was right in '60 (when he warned of the military industrial complex).  Someone DOES profit in every 'conflict' we engage in - either directly or indirectly.  And it's seldom the people.

World situations do change - I understand that.  It's just that our so-called 'leaders' don't seem to always think long term - or what consequences today's actions may have on tomorrow.

I wish we could stay the heck out of the middle east - leave the Saudis and the Iranians to knock each other off.

Blessings,

-Ed

 

I agree 100%, failure to learn from past mistakes is shown in repeating them.  The Saudi's cannot be trusted any more than the Iranians can, we see that because we are not making large profits from oil deals.

[John Robinson]

Back in early 2014 the company I work for sent a team of six of us to Saudi Arabia on a ten-day trade junket that had been partly set up by the US State Department. Even though our guides there tried to hide the worst influences from Islam from us, there was simply too much of it going on. Most of the offenses I saw were against women who fell afoul of the Morality Police. These were cops in traveled the streets of Riyadh in search of women who were uppity (my term).

One of their favorite things was to stop a woman to make sure the burkah she had on was sufficiently opaque. One event that's stuck with me was when I saw them stop a husband and wife, who was obediently walking three steps behind him. One of the cops pulled out a ruler and measured the distance from the hem of her garment to the sidewalk. It must not have passed muster, because without warning the cop pulled out a baton and started beating the snot out of her. A second later he was joined by his two fellow thugs, and even the husband joined in shaking his fist and screaming at his wife--who knows, maybe to save himself a beating from them as well. It only lasted a few seconds, then the cops climbed back in their car and drove off.

Two things I still remember: the crowd on the sidewalk utterly ignored her screams, and as it was going on our guide muttered to our group not to get involved.

Islam is an absolutely filthy religion straight from hell.

Edited June 7, 2017 by John Robinson