saudi arabia- women rights

• hi,
  i'm a student and im doing a report on saudi arabia women rights, and i was wondering if anyone could maybe write their perspective on it and what they think should be done about it.
  
  thanks!
  cassandra

  18 May 2007, 08:33 cassandra

Replies

• my experiences

  hi mikaela
  
  iam saudi women and iam proud to be
  
  saudi women have many rights that you never expect it
  
  we have right to study for free until graduate from college and some times travel to study out side saudi arabia also for free and also treatment in hospitals for free
  
  and women have speacail treat in saudi arabia because we are treated like queen
  
  in family usually men serve women and they should spend on women even if women have their own financial resources because islam say that

  saudi daughter 18 May 2007, 08:38 - Report

• know saudi arabian girl

  Hi Cassandra,
  
  I have seen your post up for awhile but haven't bothered to write anything because I am neither Saudi Arabian nor female. I do have a friend who is both, however.
  
  She is an American citizen, but lived in Saudi Arabia (where both of her parents are from) for much of her child, and has gone back to it for much of her life.
  As you might expect, she much prefers to live in the US as she is treated much differently here than there. She has also said that she refuses to date Saudi Arabian men, because no matter how nice they seem when she first meets them, they almost always turn controlling, jealous and misogynistic.
  
  So there's her two cents. Good luck with your report.

  momo 22 May 2007, 12:06 - Report

• thanks!

  hey,
  
  thank you so much for responding to my comment, one of my questions is what maybe ome "consequences" is for them if they break the "rules"
  
  thanks
  
  cassandra
  

  cassandra 22 May 2007, 12:07 - Report

• Answer to may experience, Saudi Daughter

  Hi Saudi Daughter,
  I am really impressed and proud of you on your real honor with Saudi country. I read your reply regarding Saudi women. I think its great county which having such daughter & treating like queens. I will like to work at Saudi with my family. I am from India and got job in Jubail city. Thanks for encouraging my mind about Saudi so that I will enjoy it with my family.
  Regard,
  Hi_psp, Maharastra, INDIA.

  Hi_psp 25 Oct 2007, 11:58 - Report

• I Saudi girl

  I Saudi girl and I have all my rights either to suppose that adherence to decency or prevent action mixed or bars tell you every society is religion and traditions and I hope that you respect and to reform your best

  sara 21 Apr 2008, 08:46 - Report

• hello

  hello ladies, lebanese guy working newly in al riyadh, looking for friends, if u r interested, leave me ur email plz. take care

  Brown_Eyes 19 May 2008, 08:22 - Report

• Saudia

  salam aleikum
  
  Im from Germany and I wanto study Islam in Saudia can you give some advices ?
  
  [email removed]

  Fatima 04 Aug 2008, 01:39 - Report

• hi dears

  I am Sima ! i am Iranian girl!
  
  i think Saudi is good country! but still i am thinking whats the government reason to prevent women to drive and why women r silent and accept whatever government order them?
  
  why don't they hold a women conference to change this silly rule??
  
  Iranian girl who drives every day! hahahah
  sima- Tehran
  
  [email removed]

  Sima 13 Aug 2008, 09:23 - Report

• saudi girl

  hello !
  
  i'm saudi girl . i love to talk about our life
  
  we liv in comfortabel . evrey thing we need it come to us i dont have to work . in saudi men who's work and protecet the women . maybe you cant fell how saudi girl fell happy.
  
  i wish you visit saudi and take a close look how we live ..
  
  with my greets

  sarah 21 Aug 2008, 12:44 - Report

• -

  Hey all! I'm Nisan and I'm Turkish (also Muslim).
  I have met with some Saudi girls during the MUN conferences.
  You told that you lived comfortably and had lots of rights. They were just like you! From the "lucky" group! Even you can called "lucky" that you had read these stuffs and could write your own comments but there are the ones who has no right and also no life! Some of them are satisfied with it who are not educated and a little blind I think, and some of them are still struggling with the enduring agony!
  
  I really want to visit ur country and do whatever I can do for those ones..
  
  regards..

  Nisan Kisa 14 Oct 2008, 05:58 - Report

• I wish to post this article

  Dear Csandra;
  I wanted someone to hear the story about this oppresed girl in Saudi Arabia, so I decided to post it so you may have an idea of what really is going on.
  No doubt that we are living in quite difficult times in which human rights have reached a point in which it became worthless. 700 people getting slaughtered in Gaza and no does nothing, it became a normal phenomena. The matter is that many citizens in Saudi Arabia have shown deep remorse and extreme outrage of what is going on, and continuously ask question such as: “until when will Muslims be oppressed?” Well let me put it this way, before looking at your neighbors back yard start looking at your own, and before occupying yourself about others problems start by looking at your own. People here talk about oppression as if the only oppression going on has been committed by Jews, Americans, Mongols …etc forgetting that within the Saudi society sever oppression is continuously and excessively taking place without seeming to ever abate. We judge the morality of a society by the way the most vulnerable are treated, and I believe _as well as facts and statistics indicate_ that Women in Saudi Arabia are mistreated and oppressed severely. This must stop, for enough is enough.
  
  True, the topic is not new, it takes place on a daily bases, but there comes a time that some cases just get out of hand and that something must be done. Within the last months of year 2008 there was an incident that has been quite shocking to me, and I just was informed by it recently. A young American girl in her early twenties was suspected of dating a boy friend (mind it was only a rumor, it never reached to any level of reality) and that she would meet him after classes. The father who happened to be from a Saudi tribe decided to take action based on the repost of his teenage son. They waited for her outside Dammam College. As soon as she has been detected in their visual spectrum, the both (father and son) rushed to her and embarked on their disciplinary process, beating her in front of teachers, drivers, students and police, but no one dared to take action. Well that’s how it ended then back in 2008, but what about her now? She is in house arrest under her father’s law and no one is able to contact her until today.
  
  Unfortunately, this is one of the simplest examples, no one dares to help. The pattern of events are quite repetitive and well known to the extend that these stories are never taken into consideration. Teenage boys have serious problems within the kingdom. They have all the right to flirt with girls as long it is secretive__ and due to their unrestricted mobility, they can do as they please without being caught. Due to their indulgence they come to suspect heir female relatives and tend to exercise their manhood by disciplining them. To make things worse, in the Saudi culture males (no matter how young or old) tend to have full credibility and authority over females, thus surrendering the fate of these vulnerable women to these immature degenerated teens.
  
  In most world cultures, men who beat women are regarded as cowards, but in Saudi Arabia they are regarded as men who are heroic and tend to protect their dignity and honor. They suppress their women from the most basic human rights, such as going out to a restaurant or even a store, then they dare to condemn others of injustices and oppression.
  
  By no means do I mean to understate what has been going on Gaza, oppression is oppression, what ever the scale is or the place, but it was the irony of the approach off these narrow minded extremist and their perception of life that triggered me to state this point: “Before you criticize the actions of others, start by criticizing yourselves”, and that if you can’t lift the injustice that is taking place in front of your own eyes within your house holds, then don’t expect any positive outcomes.

  bo 08 Jan 2009, 11:43 - Report

• ha ---- Every religion/region has black Sheeps

  i really Respect Cassandra for choosing such a topic.
  
  before moving Forward, briefly about me...indian, working in saudi since 2 yrs. i feel Saudi a great nation and people are best.
  
  as above comments by Saudi Daughter and sara....yes i agree with them. in Islam where it preaches and provides an full equality and respect to women. no other Religion give equal status. Women in Hijab/veil, does not mean she is oppressed or she does not have freedom. here they get good education.they are allow to study as much as they can.
  
  here they are best Mothers,good Daughters, dignified better-half and epitome Sisters.
  
  in veil, she maintains her dignity, she is secure with unwanted eve teaser. women body is not for Display like western people seems.no religion allows there females to expose her body.(nor Christianity nor Hindu nor other religion)
  
  regarding her freedom, here Saudi ladies enjoy it. they are happy with there families.
  
  crime against women is less then compare to other nations. more women's life are secure by all means.
  
  more womens are abused and molested in western nations, treated as commodity.
  
  here womens are protected.
  
  only issue is of women driving.
  ha..... for every reason there is best is hidden. all critics, think..think..evaluate and compare with Driving womens and non-driving womens and there Pro-n-Cons.
  
  Beside this, Every nations has few Black Sheeps.
  You cant compare whole country with few.
  
  For Example: father in Austria was INCEST he abused/Molested his daughters and had Children with her. there are many cases in Western countries with these issues. this does not mean Austria or western people are Bad or all fathers are INCEST.
  
  Hope you all will agree with me.

  obaid 10 Jan 2009, 10:41 - Report

• misyar marriage

  does anyone have any infor a misyar marriage please? and slso how do i go abut marriage a saudi lady as a forgien man please get back to me
  
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  al ajam 29 Jan 2009, 06:48 - Report

• saudi arabia - women rights

  I do live in US and my husband is lebanese (muslim) and he got the crazy idea on working in saudi arabia, actually he is in saudi arabia working already and expecting me to go there with my three kids, Let me tell you something, I do know a bunch of ppl (muslims living here in the state) that tells me their own stories, so let me tell you this, with all that i have been searching and all that ppl have been telling me, NOT EVEN CRAZY i will live there, these muslims people advised me NOT TO GO TO SAUDI ARABIA, so I feel sorry for my husband because he has to come back to the US. I will never live in a country were they dont know what humans rights are and another thing is that I WILL NOT LIVE UNDER NOBODY RULES, and nobody is going to tell me how I have to dress and stopping me from going outside by myself. GOD MAKE US FREE, WE ARE FREE. Bo, I will thank you for writing this article so I dont have go all over and repeat what you already said. To Cassandra : This is the reality, there is no freedom and no human rights in that country.

  Shiny 09 Feb 2009, 04:12 - Report

• no human rights in saudi arabia!

  am a saudi woman my husband brother tried to rape me! when i told him he simply gave me divorce!
  There is no justice in saudi society we women are treated like shit slaves.we sit in cars wearing black veil like bags of onions.our men husband,brother,father beat us daily at homes on small things.if we go out saudi men chase us ask our mobile phone numbers or throw at theirs on us,touch our bodies or sometiem finger us in malls,we dont sit in taxi which a saudi man is a driver..this is the truth..where we saudi women go ?

  Reem 18 Feb 2009, 01:45 - Report

• Any Saudi Womens Like Divorced, Widowed, Separated

  Dear Saudi Womens/Young Ladys pls get in touch for your future life, If any saudi women like Divorced, Widowed, Separated are with Children : Doesn't Matter we will help you for your future life with new life partners.
  
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  Abu Aleem 03 Mar 2009, 08:01 - Report

• girls are so badly treated in schools

  the schools in saudi for girls have nothing at all not even art or sports _the boys have soccer courts,basketball courts _they get trips we dont _they get much more choices that u cant count !!even 4 exams.im australian

  juny 07 Mar 2009, 10:37 - Report

• women are treated badly in saudi arabia

  I'm a saudi girl and I HATE it here, I love Islam and its rules but I hate saudi arabia, women can't even drive here!!! do I need to say more?

  cute 08 Mar 2009, 08:00 - Report

• women are safer in saudi arabia

  asalaam alaikum sisters
  
  I believe that since women in saudi arabia are safer and more secure than in any other country
  its because the saudi govt. tends to follow the sharia law, which is the best.One or two people do not make the whole nation bad.Allah will definetly help those who follow his rules

  ahmed 10 Mar 2009, 06:16 - Report

• A saudi guy who's gettin' sick of you

  Why don't you fu*k off and stop talking about us
  i'm getting sick of you guys
  we are normal people . we love, hate and even do a romantic sex that you and your people would never even dream about .....
  i'm 19 years old and i am living my life.
  so please if you were a stupid American who knows sh*t about us (( do not talk about it ))
  You know nothing about us
  please
  SHUT THE F UP
  and about our girls
  we love them
  they loves us
  and even in the Arabian hisory women were a big thing that they were fight for
  there'er alot of wars because of women
  
  FOR LOVE
  YOU GUYS DO NOT UNDERSTAND US
  YOU LIFE IN ANOTHER WORLD
  WHY WOULD I HIT THE ONE WHO SLEEP WITH ME EVERYNIGHT
  WHY WOULD I TREAT THE ONE WHO HAD MY KIDS IN A BAD WAY
  we love our women and we are ready to die for them....
  
  and if she dont wanna date a saudi
  saudies dont wanna date you as well :]
  
  so
  - showing his middel finger -

  Sami Garjeil 14 Mar 2009, 02:50 - Report

• HII MY NAME SUMAIR ALI

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  sumair ali 10 Apr 2009, 05:17 - Report

• hii im sumair ali

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  sumair ali 10 Apr 2009, 05:19 - Report

• Hii friends my name sumair ali

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  sumair ali 10 Apr 2009, 05:21 - Report

• Hii friends my name sumair ali

  HII MY NAME SUMAIR ALI BUT ITS MY NICK NAME IM 27 YEAR OLD STILL SINGLE FGROM PAKISTAN JOB ON DUBAI RIGHT NOW IM ON PAKISTAN JUST MEET WITH MY FAMILY MAMBERS I WANT GIRL FROM MY LIFE I NEED HONEST LOVEING CAREING & KIND OFF GIRL MY LIFE I NEEED IN THIS AGE GIRLS OR WOMAN 23 TO 35 YEAR IFF SOME ONE INTERESTED ON ME THEN CONTACTS WITH ME ON MY E MAIL ADDRES ([email removed])& MY MOBILE NUMBER (0092-313-5269163)&
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  BYE HAVE A NICE DAY
  
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  My name sumair ali 10 Apr 2009, 05:24 - Report

• Hai arabianz girls/women

  Hi my name is sultan plz get my id my id is [email removed] i like friendship with arabianz girls/womens so i m waiting for arabianz replyyyyyyyyyyy... ok takecare ALLAH HAFIZZZZ>..............

  sultan 16 Apr 2009, 04:48 - Report

• Why don't women play sports in front of men in Saudi Arabia?

  I read that women rarely play sports and if they do it's away from the men? I also would like to know why the women can only go to other women's sporting events? And also why do they Saudi women wear a veil?

  Courtney 28 Apr 2009, 01:53 - Report

• Report on Saudi Arabia

  Hello I'm a high school student, in the U.S. I recently read the book Princess by Jean P. Sasson its about the life of a Saudi Arabian women. Its a great read it helped me alot with understanding that sometimes these women aren't so lucky with the one who is chosen to marry them. Sometimes its a perfect match and those that are lucky just are lucky. I dont want to offend anyone her but I like somethings about their rules and somethings i dont like. For example that women are more likely to be killed doing the same crime as a man and the man hardly gets punished i think thats a little to harsh but i dont know everything. It also makes me cry when a female baby is born theres sorrow and when a male baby is born theres happiness but i guess that makes alot of since because the Father needs a son for his generation to continue and so on. I cant imagine what its like not being able to chose who your going to marry or never meet them before the wedding on occassions. I'm young but i dont judge people or governments sometimes things have to be a certain way for countries to servive and become strong. I think its wonderful that women dont have to work and then that gives them more time to spend with their children i wish my mom had that time . Just wanted to say everything isn't bad, but sometimes you have to be strong, even if your the unlucky ones, and look for happiness in the simplest things in Life, even if its just that your getting food everyday because you never know there maybe something happending to someone thats even worse. But look on the bright side of things you dont have to worry about the Money or anything like that. okay i have to go class just got out .
  
  
  From a high school student in the U.S. Nickname is Cupcake.

  Cupcake (Jenna) 11 May 2009, 07:30 - Report

• if they brake the rules

  Adultry in Saudi Arabria for women the punishment is being stoned to death.

  student 12 May 2009, 06:57 - Report

• veils

  I have a question for the women who live in Saudi Arabia. After marriage do you still have to wear the veil?

  Student in U.S. its me again Jenna (cupcake) 12 May 2009, 07:13 - Report

• women

  hi I'm a student in the U.S and my question is why are the births of the boys documented and most of the births of females are not. also why is it that some women are buried in unmarked graves?

  high school student in the U.S Julia (bubblz) 12 May 2009, 07:17 - Report

• I will never understand Saudi Arabia and his crazy rules :(

  Im an European girl,my boyfreind is a Saudi guy..we are together more than 2 yeas.I live in Europe ,he in Saudi so we dont have the chance to meet us often ,only when we both have hoidays !
  We falt in love and would like to be together but IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! Not because we dont want that ,only coz his Family ,Traditions ,Saudi Rulse doesnt allow us! He has to get marreid because his Family wants ,they already aranged that!!
  
  pls tell me how to understand that? How can u forse someone to do someting what he7she doesnt want?
  
  Im unhappy ,he is unhappy ...i cry ,he creis..only coz of those crazy Traditions what Saudi Arabia has!
  
  and what now ?! He is going to get marriaed ,,someone who he doesnt love and wants ,,,,,and he said "even i marry ,we r going to meet us dont worry,,,nothing will be changed..i dont care about my future Saudi wife!!!
  
  Pls Saudi Women ,,,explaine me that crazy Saudi Rule ,,,,coz im not able to understand it ,,,may be im not from that World this is why i can not get it ....no idea really ((((((

  Carolla 13 May 2009, 01:11 - Report

• carolla

  Maybe you should ask him, about the Saudi Rules since he is a Saudi Man and knows the Saudi Rules. One is that No Saudi can marry a nonSaudi i believe and he might possibly have to get three more wifes. Cuz.. (Because) in Saudi Arabia men that can afford the have four wifes do. But these days its more common that men only have one wife.
  
  You should also look into or look up their rights.

  cupcake 15 May 2009, 06:22 - Report

• to get merry

  hey me self arman sheikh from india looking for sweet and inteliget girls those who are intersted they can write me [email removed]

  arman sheikh 16 May 2009, 03:52 - Report

• Search in india,

  dear arman,
  please try to find in india . there is 100 million population and amoung them 30% are muslim. and i bit you can find at least 1% must from them.
  god bless you.

  Muhammad murtaza 17 May 2009, 04:58 - Report

• i need lady to live together

  Hi, i am muslim, 30 yrs, living alone in mumbai, i need any religion girl or lady to live with me together not for marriage. contact
  @ [email removed]

  haile 20 May 2009, 12:46 - Report

• eqal treatment

  hi..... I'm planning to work in jeddah.... is it safe to work here? I it is not becaus of some blogs. Why women dont have equal rightS?

  Shane of phil. 26 May 2009, 02:43 - Report

• i think you are an uneducated tosser

  i am an american who has spent a great deal of time in travelling through india and saudi arabia and i have met many different people with different stories. it is people like you who are keeping the women opressed, there may have been wars over women.. over who OWNS them. women are not a product to be bargained or fought over they are living breathing humans who deserve the same rights as anyone else. just because they dont have penis does not make them inferior. without women you would not have your precious sons you so greatly desire you would not have the 'romantic sex we americans dream about' and you would have no one to pick up after you!!! so before you start being an obusive asshole look in the mirror just cause you think you are right doesnt make it so!!!!

  pissed off 28 May 2009, 06:32 - Report

• hi friend how are you

  dear friend
  i am a male 30 yraes old living in ksa i know no good to catch & hold the girl/women but some time very very need to hold women or & needed catch bequaz i know some women is right but the world all people is not right you can understand me,
  dear friend any mean devorsed or any age saudi female can contect me my email address, [email removed] i am waiting for

  afsar1974 16 Jun 2009, 07:54 - Report

• marry

  i want to marry muslim girl in saudi arabia

  hasan 17 Jun 2009, 12:13 - Report

• friendship

  hi i am sameer from india
  i want to friendship with saudi girls
  if any girls want to friendship with me so please reply me
  my id:- [email removed]

  sameer ali 19 Jun 2009, 08:44 - Report

• misyar in riyadh

  hello evry body
  am so serues to find girls in riyadh she want maregs as a misyar am rich and i have familly my bist time is mornning or afternoon any nationlty any but i want nice hart hunast girl that all my emai [email removed] thank you

  sami 01 Jul 2009, 10:45 - Report

• Hi

  Hi Girls,I am Nigerian male.I just want to let us know that everybody has equality in the eyes of GOD though i am a christain but someone should not be ridiculed because of lack of knowledge,women have right to get to any lenght of education as they wish in their life because it's good to accumulate knowledge and that dosn't mean a woman shouldnt be respectful.Thanks.

  Kenn 17 Jul 2009, 08:28 - Report

• Saudi Girl

  Hi, Sarah !
  
  Lucky you Saudi girls. Do not have to work. Lucky you that you were not born in a western country. Look, here in Canada or USA, girls after finishing their schools work just like men. Even married, they have to work, otherwise they can not meet both ends meet. Wish you good luck.

  M. Riaz 23 Jul 2009, 04:47 - Report

• Saudi Arabia - Women Rights

  Hello Shiny,
  May you always shine for your husband and your family.
  Well, if you like and know some about living in a Western style residential compound in Saudi Arabia, why not !
  Otherwise, it is not the place to live for your kind of a lady. A lady who wants to dress the ways she likes and go around in Saudi society.
  Well wishes for you. By the way Saudi is for sure NOT Lebanon even.

  M. Riaz 23 Jul 2009, 05:00 - Report

• hi

  im morrocan single searching arabian woman of my age much more of 44years old contact me en :[email removed]

  saidromm 27 Jul 2009, 12:50 - Report