The
article I read this week is titled Saudi
Arabia women & human rights – less today than in the past? As you may
have already guessed it has to do with women’s rights in Saudi Arabia and it
also touches on the Islamic religion and a little bit about how it came to be.
According to the article women’s rights are not looking good. The government
wants it to seem as though their helping but they don’t really intend to. In
October Saudi Arabia announced that they were going allow women to get their law
degrees and be able to plead cases in court. Women are still waiting on that,
and there’s no sign that it’s going to happen any time soon. The article also
says that yes Islamic rules are not quite fair to women but that the media
makes them look way worse than what they really are. As apposed as we are to
the out of date laws and rules they have we also need to understand the facts
and know the whole story. Unfortunately the media a lot of the time is not such
a good reliable source. Muhammad the founder of the Islamic religion married
Khadija who was fifteen years older than her. They met when she hired him to
work for her and supported him with his ideas. He later on remarried several
women because many widows and were victims of crime and poverty in those times.
Many people have very different perceptions of the Islamic religion and
traditions but they’re not always right, it’s better to get all the facts and
get informed when creating in opinion.
Dalila Aguilar
3/20/13
12:15 AM
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