Woman jailed in Saudi Arabia

[Savaric]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,329605,00.html

Ah poetic justice, is there anything sweeter?

[Malacasta]

Sometimes your schadenfreude is sickening Saveric. What did this woman do to deserve your wrath, and the indignity of being strip searched, jailed and condemned to hell?

Any theocracy is vile, and it is the theocracy that deserves your hatred, not the poor victims of its rule. I had read about this case earlier today on Daily Kos, and I must say that that author's anger was far more eloquent and pointed than yours.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/20...120/450/452109

[Loigan]

Originally posted by Savaric

Ah poetic justice, is there anything sweeter?

Heh

[Aristotle]

Originally posted by Savaric
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,329605,00.html

Ah poetic justice, is there anything sweeter?

I am having trouble finding the "hatred" and "wrath" in this post that you speak of, Malacasta.

Something doesn't have to be "nice" to still be poetic justice. Dale Earnhardt was killed in a car crash, and would probably have lived if a certain type of head restraint had been made mandatory in NASCAR. One of the main reasons this head restraint was never made mandatory was because Dale Earnhardt campaigned vigorously against it. Ooops. Did he deserve to die? Of course not. Is it poetic justice that he did? Considering the fact that other drivers died between the time of his campaigning against the restraint and his own death, yes, I'd say that is poetic justice.

This woman took a ridiculous and patently absurd political stance - very likely motivated out of dislike for Bush family politics more than anything else. It is hard to believe that any moderately intelligent and informed person could ever argue that Saudi Arabia "doesn't deserve its bad reputation" for treatment of women. The fact that she suffered the true wrath of oppressive, findamentalist Islam is a shame, but it is not a stretch to call it poetic justice. Nor is it hateful to do so.

Then again, maybe she isn't moderately intelligent after all:

She has since vowed to remain in Saudi Arabia and continue working, but she says she will never return to Riyadh and now travels with a bodyguard.

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"The psychological impact is beyond description," Hatim said. "She's normally a very calm, stable woman. Now she's afraid to leave our compound."

Gee..... leave the country maybe? Duh.

Incidentally....

The men were from Saudi Arabia's Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a 10,000-strong police force charged with enforcing dress codes, sex segregation and the observance of prayer times.

10,000 people to enforce such things? LOL.

[Gromgor]

Something about being manhandled into a cab by men in "dresses" (as described in the article) makes me giggle.

[kestra]

"What a country!!"--Yakov Smirnoff

[Runatsu]

Although anthropology has taught me not to be ethnocentric and to be unbiased and understanding about other peoples beliefs but even thinking or hearing about things like this makes my blood boil.

[Kailen]

Originally posted by Runatsu
Although anthropology has taught me not to be ethnocentric and to be unbiased and understanding about other peoples beliefs but even thinking or hearing about things like this makes my blood boil.

Be proud to be a American!!

[Runatsu]

Originally posted by Yarzin
Be proud to be a American!!

What made my blood boil was gender roles and biases based on religion. I don't care if the woman was American or not.

If you're saying that I should be proud of the American world view and ideology, I would have to say that I doubt I could ever be proud of this country.

In many aspects I admire and respect America, but in some of its aspects I find it to be disappointing. But that's merely my opinion. *shrugs*

[Loigan]

Originally posted by Runatsu

If you're saying that I should be proud of the American world view and ideology, I would have to say that I doubt I could ever be proud of this country.

Just the fact that we don't have fucked up laws/beliefs like that country is enough to make me proud of the USA.