Posted on 05/03/2008 11:06:57 AM PDT by george76
Arab women had more rights at the time of the Romans than they have today. At that time, in fact, their capacity to conduct their own economic affairs was recognised, which is not true in Saudi Arabia today.
This is maintained by a female Saudi scholar, Hatoon al-Fassi, in a book entitled "Women In Pre-Islamic Arabia",
Barred from teaching at King Saud University in 2001, the scholar has examined the situation of Nabataea, a kingdom that at the beginning of the Christian era included parts of modern-day Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, and had its capital in Petra.
"We now live the worst status imaginable":
(Excerpt) Read more at asianews.it ...
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Just hope for her sake she’s not in saudi arabia.
Yes. It is standard Islamic apologetics to claim that Mohammed improved the status of women in Arabia, for example, by reducing the maximum permissible number of wives to 4. This woman could easily find herself in prison for what she has written.
Dead is more like it.
Which would be worse?
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