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Originally Posted by kane
While they may not "allow" it, some Arab and Muslim countries are pretty backwards. Here is a good story on some crazy laws regarding women that still exist today. One of them is that women in Saudi Arabia is that if a woman is alone and not in the company of a male family member and she is raped, she can be punished for it.
There have been several cases in the news where women in Saudi Arabia were out in public and were raped. They were punished harshly for being raped and the rapists got little more than a slap on the wrist. |
From the article you referenced:
"But she adds that, especially in Saudi Arabia, “things are modernizing.”"
From the same article:
"Women’s rights abuses are by no means limited to North Africa, West Africa or the Middle East, though that’s where we tend to hear such stories most frequently."
Have a look at this, from an American perspective:
http://xrdarabia.org/2011/06/23/shame-of-rape-goes-on/