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BBC: Saudi women 'kept in childhood' [LINK-ZUM]

Saudi women are being kept in perpetual childhood so male relatives can exercise "guardianship" over them, the Human Rights Watch group has said. The New York-based group says Saudi women have to obtain permission from male relatives to work, travel, study, marry or even receive health care. Their access to justice is also severely constrained, it says.

The group says the Saudi establishment sacrifices basic human rights to maintain male control over women. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive. Saudi clerics see the guardianship of women's honour as a key to the country's social and moral order.

[Article continues at link. When the author(s) of this article mention 'Saudi clerics' they of course are referring to Seventh Day Adventists. Or perhaps Theravada Buddhists. Maybe they are Asatru Free Assembly. Well, whatever sort of clerics they are, the BBC doesn't say. Maybe because they don't say what sort of clerics run a country such that women are kept as perpetual children then that sort of cleric won't feel victimized and targeted and disrespected. Because they are the real victims, oh yes, those poor clerics need our understanding. - Trevor Blake]

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