{"id":39741,"date":"2019-01-11T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T20:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=39741"},"modified":"2019-01-11T15:08:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T20:08:05","slug":"women-are-fighting-the-global-war-against-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=39741","title":{"rendered":"Women are fighting the global war against them"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Saudi Women, Tired of Restraints, Find Ways To Flee.”<\/a><\/p>\n

The heart of the global war against women is the god problem. Saudi women are not merely leaving the kingdom; they are leaving a theocracy. Even if they don’t phrase it that way, I think they’re rejecting living as slaves to fundamentalist, patriachal religion.<\/p>\n

The Times piece begins:<\/p>\n

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BEIRUT, Lebanon \u2014 Whenever her father beat her, or bound her wrists and ankles to punish her for perceived disobedience, the Saudi teenager dreamed of escape, she said.<\/em><\/p>\n

As desperate as she was to leave, however, the same question always stopped her short: How would she get out?<\/em><\/p>\n

If she ran away anywhere within the country, the Saudi police would just send her home, she feared. Saudi law barred her from traveling abroad without her father\u2019s permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

But during a family vacation in Turkey when she was 17, Shahad al-Muhaimeed saw her chance, and bolted. While her family slept, she took a taxi across the border to Georgia and declared herself a refugee, leaving Saudi Arabia behind to start a new life.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI now live the way I want to,\u201d said Ms. Muhaimeed, 19, by phone from her new home in Sweden. \u201cI live in a good place that has women\u2019s rights.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Then there’s Orthodox Judaism, with its own vicious way of trapping women. <\/a><\/p>\n

And more Orthodox Judaism versus women.<\/a><\/p>\n

Some women who are bravely fighting fundamentalist religions.<\/a><\/p>\n

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