You may want to sit down as this might come as quite a shock, but Islam has a history of repressing women. I know, it took me by surprise as well. Did Bush lie to us? I always believed him when he said Islam was a religion of peace that had deep respect for human rights......
RIYADH (Reuters) - When clerics, ministers and businessmen gathered at a forum in Riyadh last month to discuss women in the workplace, there were no women in sight.
Typically for Saudi Arabia, the women who took part were seated in a separate room so the men could only hear them.
In her study, "Women In Pre-Islamic Arabia", the outspoken rights advocate argues women in the pre-Islamic period enjoyed considerable rights in the Nabataean state, an urban Arabian kingdom centred in modern Jordan, south Syria and northwest Saudi Arabia during the Roman empire.
Most controversially, Fassi says women in Nabataea -- whose capital was the famous rose-red city of Petra in south Jordan and which was at its height during the lifetime of Jesus Christ -- enjoyed more freedom than in Saudi Arabia today because clerics have misunderstood the origins of Islamic law.
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Just remember, Mo's first wife was an independent successful business woman. Something tells me she would have been very pissed at Mo on his treatment of women after she died.
Posted by: Elric66 | May 01, 2008 at 10:50 PM