Letter from Saudi Arabia-Re: how women in Saudi Arabia are treated.

Jerusalem Post ^ | 1-31-8 | H.A.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Saudi propaganda...I’ll wager than “Caroline Glick” doesn’t even exist.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

DOH!

Not the columnist Caroline Glick, but this anonymous writer who probably doesn't exist as a girl living in Saudi Arabia.

It's too early in the morning....need more caffeine!

[palmer]

there is no mosque in Vatican City

Right, but there are plenty in Italy, duh?

[saganite]

Caroline Glick is an American-Israeli Journalist and is the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post. She is also the Senior Fellow for Middle East Affairs of the Washington, DC-based Center for Security Policy.[1]

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1 Life
2 Remarks
3 Documentaries
4 Articles
5 References

[edit] Life
Glick was born in Chicago and graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She emigrated to Israel in 1991 and joined the IDF.[2]

She worked in the IDF’s Judge Advocate General division during the First Intifada in 1992, and while there edited and co-authored an IDF-published book, Israel, the Intifada and the Rule of Law. Following the Oslo Accords, she worked as coordinator of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. She retired from the military with the rank of captain at the end of 1996. In 1997 and 1998 she served as assistant foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She returned to the US to get her Master of Arts in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, in 2000.

Upon her return to Israel, she became, and remains, the chief diplomatic correspondent for Makor Rishon newspaper, for which she writes a weekly column in Hebrew. She is also the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post for which she writes two weekly syndicated columns. Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the National Review, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Washington Times, Maariv and major Jewish newspapers worldwide. She has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, Sky News, the Christian Broadcasting Network, and all of Israel’s major television networks. She also makes frequent radio appearances both in the US and Israel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Glick

[acapesket]

She’s (C.G.) quite well known, however you’re correct.
The letter writer is clearly delusional.

[ovrtaxt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFWZNEzeeEo

[Hacklehead]

“You do realize we live in the 21st century?! “

So you can drive yourself to your own stoning?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

You’re an idiot, Miss Anonymous of Saudi Arabia. If you have choices, it’s because your parents give you a few. If they decided to take those away, you’d have to comply or suffer dire consequences.
When you marry, if your husband decides to take away your privileges, you will have to comply or suffer dire consequences.
You have NO rights. You have some privileges, like a pampered pet, granted by people who have the state-sanctioned power to lock you away for life, or have you destroyed.
Repeat. You have NO rights in Saudi Arabia.

[ishabibble]

>>Yes I do wear an abaya, but we do not necessarily have to cover our hair or faces; again this is a personal and cultural choice.

To be frank, abayas are not a big deal to us, we actually embrace it and design lovely abayas that portray our personalities.<<

Foolish girl! What would happen if you chose not to wear the head covering? Your wonderful “religious” police would beat you in the streets. Also, the remark about the Vatican is ridiculous. No Muslim is forbidden to enter the Vatican. No harm will come to a Muslim who walks through St. Peter’s Square. This girl states that she is 20 yrs. old and lived in the U.S. for 13 yrs. How fortunate for her that she has a loving and understanding family. Unfortunately, there is a strong streak in her letter that points up exactly what is wrong with Islam. No Golden Rule. She doesn’t care about the abuse of women because it does not happen to her.

[CHEE]

This does not jive with what I witnessed while living in Saudi. Never forget Muslims are allowed, even urged, to lie to the nonbelievers in their warped religion.

[goodwithagun]

At least she has not been brainwashed by her religion. SARC

[Hugin]

Israel, not the Vatican, is the land where Jesus was born and died and was resurrected, and where the two holiest places in Christianity are located (Jerusalem and Bethlehem). Clearly there should be no mosques allowed there by her logic.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

See my post #3.

I actually knew who Caroline Glick was when I first posted, but in the best tradition of Homer Simpson, I was half-asleep when I hit the enter button.

[Sender]

Right, there may be no demand for a Mecca Baptist Church, but just try and enter SA with a Bible or a cross necklace. The whole country isn't a "sacred place".

You know, I have read several similar letters from Saudi women, all claiming to love wearing the abaya and having lots of freedom and fun. Somehow that just doesn't ring true. Maybe they do enjoy having Uncle Ahmed drive them to the mall wearing a hefty bag garment, so they can pick out a new one. Maybe they enjoy sitting in the womens' section of the falafel court, whispering about guys in white sheets walking by. Better not let Uncle Ahmed hear that, or he'll tell your husband, and you know what that means.

I've also read letters from American women who married Saudi men, moved to SA and entered a life of hell. Others that escaped had to leave their children behind to be raised as Muslims, as children are the property of the man. So this writer thinks her country will someday rise to shine above all others? Riiight.

[WildcatClan]

So polygamy is just a magnanimous gesture on the part of Islamic males. Well now we know. The girl is wrong, we do have a right to mock her. We have a thing called “Freedom of Speech” in America. I would guess this girl has a colored moustache that is either red, orange, purple or some other color, because she has sure been drinking the Kool*Aid.

[palmer]

You know, I have read several similar letters from Saudi women, all claiming to love wearing the abaya and having lots of freedom and fun.

It's always lots of fun until someone gets stoned.

[YellowRoseofTx]

This does not jive with what I witnessed while living in Saudi.

Same here and not the info I got from the Saudis I knew and dealt with, or what I observed

[RaceBannon]

If we allow a Mosque in Vatican City wilkl they allow a CHurch in Mecca???

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

You also mention how no other religions can be practiced in Saudi Arabia. I want to point out this is the land that Islam was introduced in; the land the prophet was born in, the same land that contains Mecca and Medina, two of the holiest sites in Islam.

It makes sense not to allow another religion to be practiced in such a sacred place. As far as I know there is no mosque in Vatican City.

Let's try a different example, shall we?

You also mention how no other religions can be practiced in Israel. I want to point out this is the land that Christianity was introduced in; the land Jesus was born in, the same land that contains Bethleham and Jerusalem, two of the holiest sites in Christiandom.

It makes sense not to allow another religion to be practiced in such a sacred place. As far as I know there is no Christain church in Mecca.

If that were published, the screams of "Bigot" and "Religious Intolerance" would ring from the rafters of every pressroom in America.