CDHR’s Analysis: The institutionalized destructive gender segregation (Gender Apartheid system) in Saudi Arabia has resulted in a multitude of social, political, educational and economic impediments to national unity, productivity, constructive competitiveness, religious tolerance and human development. However, Saudi women are the targets of the brutal, politically and economically instigated gender segregation system.
In
a tragic crime
similar to the case of the wrenching gang-raped Bint Al-Qatif, (daughter
of Qatif), Saudi women can be punished for being
raped while sitting in public negotiating
the return of photos they gave to men they trust but who, in turn, threaten to
use the photos given to them out of love to blackmail the givers.
Saudi
women are an easy target for men’s heinous aggression because of the Saudi male
dominated institutions, especially the arbitrary Saudi religious courts which
are staffed by men who consider women less than full human beings and
responsible for luring men to assault them.
However,
women are not only rejecting the imposition of men’s control over their lives
and livelihood;
they have also become the most outspoken citizens
against social injustices, discriminatory policies, intolerance, inequality and
government’s inconsistent domestic and foreign policies regarding human rights.
What
the international community, especially in the West, does not seem to
understand and appreciate is the fact that Saudi women’s rights cannot be
achieved without defeating the forces of darkness in Saudi society, namely the
religious extremists.
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