Saudi Women electronically tracked.

[John ''True Grit'' Wayne]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...y-tracked.html

HUSBANDS in Saudi Arabia are now monitoring their wives' movements out of the country using electronic tracking.
Women in the ultra conservative country are already denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving.
But now women in oil rich kingdom are being spied on by an electronic system that picks-up any cross-border movements.
Since last week, Saudi women’s male guardians began receiving text messages if their women left the country - even if they are travelling together.
“The authorities are using technology to monitor women,” said columnist Badriya al-Bishr, who criticised the “state of slavery under which women are held” in the kingdom.
Saudi women are not allowed to leave the kingdom without permission from their male guardian, usually husband or father, who must give consent by signing what is known as the “yellow sheet” at the airport or border.
The move by the Saudi authorities was swiftly condemned on social network Twitter - with many criticising the crackdown.
“If I need an SMS to let me know my wife is leaving Saudi Arabia, then I’m either married to the wrong woman or need a psychiatrist,” tweeted a user called Hisham.
Saudi Arabia applies a strict interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law, and is the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive.
In June 2011, female activists launched a campaign to defy the ban, with many arrested for doing so and forced to sign a pledge they will never drive again.

These guys are nasty woman abusing scum and need to be exposed on TWC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20469486

A discovery that Saudi male guardians are automatically getting text messages about cross-border movements of female dependants has caused a Twitter uproar.

"Hello Taliban, herewith some tips from the Saudi e-government!" read one post, while another suggested microchips.

Attention was drawn to the system when a man travelling with his wife got an alert as they left Riyadh airport.

Saudi women are denied the right to travel without their guardian's consent and are also banned from driving.

Reform attempts
Saudi men earlier had the option of requesting alert messages about their dependants' cross-border movement, but it appears that since last week such notifications are being sent automatically.

Some Twitter users have mocked the move, suggesting also the use of microchips and ankle bracelets to track women.

Another tweet read: "If I need an SMS to let me know my wife is leaving Saudi Arabia, then I'm either married to the wrong woman or need a psychiatrist."

The text alerts are part of an electronic passport system launched by the Saudi authorities last year.

The government argues that e-passports make it easier for citizens to deal with their travel arrangements "without having to visit the passport office".

Saudi Arabia remains a deeply conservative country, however King Abdullah has recently introduced some cautious political and social reforms.

In September 2011, he announced that women would be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections.

These guys are our allies.Reminds me of the Taliban meme about owning a woman.

[nce_wht_guy]

This is good but it's cheaper to just chain them to the kitchen stove. That's what I do, cheaper, more effective, she can't run away when I need to punch something. But, I guess the Saudi gov's always been full of bleeding hearts. I can't use a rod bigger than my thumb? How does that teach her anything?!?!?

[Enzo]

I'm sure it's for their own personal safety because of their sexual allure to men. Everything is being done to counter this threat. With all that sexual allure being given out there is the prospect for immorality to occur.

[John ''True Grit'' Wayne]

They are covered from head to toe in black clothes and men are forbidden from alcohol as it makes people think impure thoughts and rape things.
A tracking device seems like what you put on a dog a microchip in fact.If you find this dog please return it to this address.

[Enzo]

A tracking device seems like what you put on a dog a microchip in fact.If you find this dog please return it to this address.

They're just being looked after by their loving husbands/owners, just in case say they get loose or something then you know who they can be returned to.

The Quran says a man can keep up to four women as wives but only if he treats all four with equal respect, so he better make sure he has them all tagged and chipped.

[Menelik_I]

Can't blame them, nobody can resist to a Saudi Sexy Burqa.

[SorelusImperion]

Saudi Arabia acting like the dictature it is ? In other words the Pope is still catholic.
Come back when you have something new.

[Sir Winston Churchill]

Direct and blatant violations of both women's and human rights taking place in Saudi Arabia?

And you call this news?

[Bobz]

Direct and blatant violations of both women's and human rights taking place in Saudi Arabia?

And you call this news?

Backwards savaged are savagely backwards.

[Sir Winston Churchill]

Backwards savaged are savagely backwards.

They're not savages so long as they supply us with oil!

[removeduser_4536284751384]

Direct and blatant violations of both women's and human rights taking place in Saudi Arabia?

And you call this news?

are you implying women aren't human?

[Sir Winston Churchill]

are you implying women aren't human?

Not at all. Women's rights categorize rights unique to women, and human rights categorize human rights. Women are subject to both. For instance women have a right to be paid equal to that of men when they can do the same job equally.. I don't know many societies where men didn't already have this right, so it would be considered specifically an issue for that of women. Thus, women's rights.

Western women need to appreciate how much we're letting them get away with, purely out of the goodness of our hearts. They should know that Saudi Arabia is the kind of perfect society we're sacrificing for them.

Women these days act like they're entitled to equal treatment. No they're ing not. We could take it away at any time.

[removeduser_4536284751384]

Not at all. Women's rights categorize rights unique to women, and human rights categorize human rights. Women are subject to both. For instance women have a right to be paid equal to that of men when they can do the same job equally.. I don't know many societies where men didn't already have this right, so it would be considered specifically an issue for that of women. Thus, women's rights.

A joke.

Western women need to appreciate how much we're letting them get away with, purely out of the goodness of our hearts. They should know that Saudi Arabia is the kind of perfect society we're sacrificing for them.

Women these days act like they're entitled to equal treatment. No they're ing not. We could take it away at any time.

I do hope you're not serious. If you are, I'm dying to hear your problems...

[Col. Tartleton]

I do hope you're not serious. If you are, I'm dying to hear your problems...

I don't have a problem. Western women are lucky to live in a society that has bent over to please them. All societies have not. It would certainly be better for me to have the kind of inequality of traditional near or far eastern culture.

Women have the benefits of additional special protections and just about every imaginable legally enforced equality.

That's a good deal.

To be fair Western women had to fight for the rights they now have they weren't freely given through kindness.

Hardly.

[Grouchio]

Direct and blatant violations of both women's and human rights taking place in Saudi Arabia?

And you call this news?

In other news, Golden Dawn are fascists! Please do something Captain Obvious, editor of Daily Bugle!

[Enzo]

They would say we're savages for sexualising our women and driving them in traditionally males careers and encouraging childlessness. What they need is a man to support (and electronically tag) them and some babies there. There's a place for em in the home being looked after.

[Sir Winston Churchill]

They would say we're savages for sexualising our women and driving them in traditionally males careers and encouraging childlessness. What they need is a man to support (and electronically tag) them and some babies there. There's a place for em in the home being looked after.

Point 1: A personal issue, personal liberty to decide morals > forcing opinionated morals on others.
Point 2: Most women asked to be "driven" into traditionally male careers, they have the ability to be stay-at-home mom's all they want. Again, personal liberty.
Point 3: Childlessness is, again, a personal choice and liberty. Better to realistically look at the pros and cons of children so that they can be had when they can be better cared for rather than some kind of requirement of life.

So really, it's an argument for or against personal liberty. Those who would deny people personal liberty are more savage than those who let people make their own decisions and have the ability to empower themselves rather than be forever under some guided hand which could easily be misguided.

[Treize]

And the ridiculousness goes on and on.

[Armenum]

US : "Hey, they have oil and are against Iran...so shhhhhh...."

[Treize]

US : "Hey, they have oil and are against Iran...so shhhhhh...."

S-A makes Iran look socially liberal, really.