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.

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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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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Children Girl School
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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Arabia Citizen Rights
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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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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Divorce Husband Powerful
I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.
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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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