Our dear ally, Saudi Arabia, has come up with a new tool to oppress women. They are brutes, clever one, but brutes all the same.
From the Arab News:
Recent changes implemented to Saudi-naturalization rules have foreign women married to Saudi men wondering if their marriage ends up in divorce whether they’ll be left without a country to call their own.
Among the new rules implemented earlier this year is a change to Article 16 that states the Saudi citizenship of foreign-born women can be revoked if they divorce their Saudi husbands. Since the Saudi rules also require these women to give up citizenship to their native homeland in order to become naturalized Saudis, these women feel like they could end up in a real quandary should their marriages end in divorce.
"The Kingdom in the past few years has established human rights organizations in the hopes of banishing the stereotype (My note, it's the truth, not a stereotype) of women’s oppression in Saudi Arabia — and I applaud the Kingdom for doing so — but I think the Ministry of Interior should take another look at the consequences the new law can have on innocent mothers and children newly Saudi or made to revert to being foreign," said Mary, an American-born woman married to a Saudi man who has been living in Riyadh for the past 18 years. "The fact of the matter is, kids know no system of nationality ... just 'mommy'," she added.
Debbie, an American woman who married a Saudi at 18 and has lived in Jeddah for the past 26 years, agrees. She’s just now working through the Saudi naturalization process and calls the new rule bizarre.
Mary and Debbie, the country you are living in is bizarre. Call it a kingdom if you want, but Saudi Arabia is a misogynist, Islamo-fascist dictatorship.
I attended an Irshad Manji lecture near my home last year, and she said that women are property in the dictarship, with all the legal status of an automobile. Which women of course can't drive in Saudi Arabia.
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