Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands.

Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society – the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.
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Country Men Religious
I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.
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The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a khali is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands.
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On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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