The Veil of Islam: Saudis Take A Step Backwards

(From the archives of BFD Blog!)

The following item appeared in the Los Angeles Times today:

Authorities have ordered banks to separate female and male workers at their headquarters, a new setback for women’s rights in the kingdom.

Banks are one of the main employers of women in Saudi Arabia. Although women are separated from men in branches, they have worked together in bank headquarters.

Saudi Arabia’s strict law and customs prohibit unrelated men and women from mixing, and women from driving cars and voting in municipal elections.

What are the men who run this country afraid of? The wrath of their God, or maybe just a loss of their virtual manhood. What they need to be concerned about is the loss of their humanhood. Through their subjugation of women they only retard the intellectual, economic and human development of their own people.

Maybe the Saudis ought to Google some of the following women who have contributed to society in the United States, and just maybe they will figure out that they are “missing the boat” in terms of the contributions that women in their society could potentially make:

For biographies of the women listed above, go to this page at the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Interested in reading more about the subjugation of women in Islamic dominated governments, please see this previous posting, and SAND GETS IN MY EYES blog.