Saudi Arabia: A Slap in the Face to Women’s Rights
By Hillary Taft - Monday, May 11th, 2009
I always wonder why it’s so trendy among the left to be sooo concerned about general human rights (FREE TIBET!) but most don’t seem to give a crap about the horrendous treatment women get in many foreign countries and cultures.
Husbands are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi judge said recently during a seminar on domestic violence, Saudi media reported Sunday.
Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily newspaper based in Riyadh, reported that Judge Hamad Al-Razine said that “if a person gives SR 1,200 [$320] to his wife and she spends 900 riyals [$240] to purchase an abaya [the black cover that women in Saudi Arabia must wear] from a brand shop and if her husband slaps her on the face as a reaction to her action, she deserves that punishment…”
I’d like to slap that judge myself…
May 25th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
In fact, liberals have been campaigning for the rights of women in other countries for years. I seem to remember getting a lot of “Stop Gender Apartheid” mailings from the Feminist Majority Foundation, for example.
Perhaps you should check your facts.