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Originally posted by Cuervo
reply to post by aboutface
I hope all the women that live there end up trying to get independence. That's one rebellion I'd feel good about supporting.
Originally posted by RimDaas
Hey guys.
Since you are posting your views, the views of a western society where women are allowed to mingle with men and dress however they want let me ask you something, not only about the city but about controversial subjects. Btw, the city is for mostly EXPATRIATE women. Meaning women from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. That kind of thing. In Qatar they are building a city for workers. This is the same.
Now the questions
What if these women want to live in a separate city? Expatriates have been abused in Saudi Arabia for some time now.
What if women like wearing the hijab?
What if a women wants to dress modestly?
What if a women does not like to mingle with men?
You guys are calling Islamic views barbaric but fail to think that maybe women think it isn't wrong. You guys use the motto 'deny ignorance', yet you simply can't accept the idea that maybe the women in Islamic countries don't care if they were the hijab or are segregated. Before judging someone else look at yourself.
Originally posted by pavil
Originally posted by Cuervo
reply to post by aboutface
I hope all the women that live there end up trying to get independence. That's one rebellion I'd feel good about supporting.
For real. All the women in SA should move to these cities........we will see how long it will take the men to whimper for them to come back. The men might actually have to work and help around the household and treat their wives as equals.
Originally posted by pavil
Originally posted by RimDaas
Hey guys.
Since you are posting your views, the views of a western society where women are allowed to mingle with men and dress however they want let me ask you something, not only about the city but about controversial subjects. Btw, the city is for mostly EXPATRIATE women. Meaning women from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. That kind of thing. In Qatar they are building a city for workers. This is the same.
Now the questions
What if these women want to live in a separate city? Expatriates have been abused in Saudi Arabia for some time now.
What if women like wearing the hijab?
What if a women wants to dress modestly?
What if a women does not like to mingle with men?
You guys are calling Islamic views barbaric but fail to think that maybe women think it isn't wrong. You guys use the motto 'deny ignorance', yet you simply can't accept the idea that maybe the women in Islamic countries don't care if they were the hijab or are segregated. Before judging someone else look at yourself.
What I am saying is that for many many years, women in most Arabic societies have been conditioned to act they way they do. It's not really their free will to do it, it's been ingrained into them since birth. Even then you have women fighting the status quo.... that should tell you that the conditioning they undergo isn't enough to sap them of their free will.
Originally posted by RimDaas
Please, that is your own view. Before you start saying how Saudi women are oppressed and live in a primitive stone age society, go to Saudi Arabia and ask Saudi women first. You don't know how the Saudi women live, except for a few news sources and a few hundred anti-islamic and anti-arab sites.
Originally posted by inalandfaraway
Originally posted by RimDaas
Please, that is your own view. Before you start saying how Saudi women are oppressed and live in a primitive stone age society, go to Saudi Arabia and ask Saudi women first. You don't know how the Saudi women live, except for a few news sources and a few hundred anti-islamic and anti-arab sites.
Saudi women know the deal. They know there are two sets of rules, depending on if they are in Saudi or out of it.
In Saudi, they can't drive and have to be driven. Out of Saudi, they can and do drive.
Saudi itself is a kingdom. Remember that.
Originally posted by RimDaas
Originally posted by pavil
Originally posted by Cuervo
reply to post by aboutface
I hope all the women that live there end up trying to get independence. That's one rebellion I'd feel good about supporting.
For real. All the women in SA should move to these cities........we will see how long it will take the men to whimper for them to come back. The men might actually have to work and help around the household and treat their wives as equals.
Its not for Saudi women! Its for expatriate women working in industries!! Qatar is making a city for workers. Is ATS going on about how cruel and un equal that is?
Originally posted by aboutface
reply to post by InTheLight
Then it 's the same-old, same-old? From all accounts I've read, the foreign women workers are already housed separately and their movements and dress are highly restricted. Can you provide a link that says this is for foreign workers?
Originally posted by RimDaas
Oh my! I'm not allowed to drive. I'm being terribly oppressed aren't?
Your making a big deal out of nothing.
Minors aren't allowed to drive anywhere either.
Originally posted by aboutface
reply to post by InTheLight
Then it 's the same-old, same-old? From all accounts I've read, the foreign women workers are already housed separately and their movements and dress are highly restricted. Can you provide a link that says this is for foreign workers?