I've had it up to here with this Saudi Arabia place. The religious arrests and persecutions, the gender discrimination, countries like this make me sick to my stomach and quite frankly need to be wiped off the face of the earth. There is no discussion.
To me, Saudi Arabia is nearly as bad as Hussein-controlled Iraq or Iran, or the Taliban in Afghanistan. And if we encouraged the overthrow of the ruling class in Saudia Arabia, and installed democratic ideals, I think it would be cheered for by the same poor downtrodden people thirsty for freedom that we found in Iraq and Afghanistan and the same who are currently demonstrating in Lebanon and the Ukraine.
I'm not so sure this eminates from the "ruling class" in Saudi Arabia.
Methinks it comes from the Imams, and the rest of the religious clerics who have the male domination for hundreds of years and don't want to give that up.
There is somewhere a saying that Muslim men believe that sex has 10 parts and that 9 of these parts were given to women and only 1 part to men. They are terrified of women in some ways, methinks.