wtf?

a strong sense of FAMILY? wtf i say again.

is a STRONG FAMILY one where the woman needs the man's permission to not only drive BUT TO HAVE SURGERY OR LEAVE THE COUNTRY? wtf wtf wtf? that is in NO WAY A FAMILY THAT IS ANYTHING BUT DYSFUNCTIONAL.

no vote, no voice, no face. non-existence. a lashing for being raped. there is absolutely NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THE TONE OF THIS ARTICLE. NONE
security? or is it prison?
(yeah once again, NO political correctness from me on this one)

Pursuing happiness behind the veil
To be the American wife of a Saudi is to forsake familiar freedoms — or enjoy them secretly — in exchange for a secure, family-centered life.
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Teresa Malof knew she wasn't in Kentucky anymore when a cleric issued a fatwa against her secret Santa gift exchange.Malof proposed the idea at the King Fahad National Guard Hospital, where she has worked for more than a decade. It was supposed to be discreet, but rumors were whispered amid veils and hijabs that the lithe, blond nurse, raised on farmland at the edge of Appalachia, was planning to celebrate a Christian tradition in an Islamic kingdom that forbids the practicing of other religions."Even though I'm a Muslim too, I like to celebrate the holidays and have gift exchanges," said Malof, a convert to Islam who is married to the son of a former Saudi ambassador. "But word got out and the religious people came with a fatwa [or edict] against the Santa party. My husband was having a heart attack. He was worried I'd be in a lot of trouble.".......

................Malof said her husband's family has been very accepting. But it took her a while to adjust to the religious police and the brazen boys in their buffed cars. The police patrol stores and sidewalks looking to fine or arrest women deemed to be improperly veiled. And the boys and young men, living in a country where the only contact with women is arranged through families, are bored and seek titillation by leering and driving alongside cars carrying women, sometimes boxing them in on highways...............