Why doesn't the west accept that Islam liberates women and women choose to wear the veil?

Question

In the most Islamic of all countries, Saudi Arabia another liberation expirence has occuer that further empowers muslim women, yet the west doesnt see how free muslim women are

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi women still can't drive cars, but they can sell them. Potential buyers can go to an all-women showroom where, for the first time, other women will help them choose a car and answer questions about horsepower, carburetors and other automotive features.

"I don't support women driving even if a permission is given for them to do so, because the society is not prepared for such a step," said Widad Merdad, one of the saleswomen, which is privately owned and — like many in Saudi Arabia — offers a range of cars.

While the introduction of car saleswomen into the work force may seem a gain for Saudi women, some say that for every step forward, women suffer other setbacks.

Saudi writer Maram Mekkawi cited a recent incident in which female doctors attending a conference in the same room as men — a rare event in the kingdom — were asked to leave because one speaker refused to address a mixed group. The women left, sparking outrage among other women.

In a column in Al-Watan newspaper, Mekkawi said the women doctors wouldn't have been kicked out had Saudi society not programmed them to accept such humiliation.

"I'm sorry to say that I have found in the Western world men and women with much more manly stands than ours here, where we claim a monopoly on values and principles," Mekkawi wrote.

"Would I be blamed if I felt like a third-class or even 10th-class citizen?" she added.

Some people wonder if the new all-women showroom will meet the fate of a similar business forced to close shortly after it opened in Jiddah a few years ago.

The woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being harassed, said she was forced to cancel a women-only private viewing of new models of a popular car a year ago when religious police agents stormed into the dealership hours before the reception.

When told the reception was intended only to show cars to women, the police retorted that the vehicles could be taken to the women's homes for private viewings, she said.

It's not only men who oppose women driving, however.

Ruqiya al-Duwaighry, in a letter to the opinion page of Al-Watan, wrote that driving "strips women of their femininity" and puts them in situations that might violate the ban on the sexes mixing.

Driving "may subject her to give up the veil or mix with strange men, such as workers at gas stations or security men at checkpoints," she wrote. "Women, by nature, cannot cope with such hard work."

Others say women should at least learn

Answer 1

I agree. Your women are so ugly, they should be required to wear one.

Answer 2

Yes women choose to wear the Veil as a personal choice.People would rather be ignorant to this fact because rather than have an understanding about a different cultures it is easier to pass baseless opinions.

Answer 3

The west has no problems with liberated Muslim women. Women are happiest and live more productive lives in the west.
I trust that in the coming years, eastern Muslim women will be fully liberated.

Answer 4

the veil liberates women? what religious significance is behind the veil? stop twisting the concept of your religion to make it more appealing, islam doesn't liberate women

men allowed to have multiple wives, how does that liberate women?
women were forced to wear hijabs and burkas before until modern society, so stop lying
that's only a change in society

liberation, HA!

Answer 5

I've been to several sites, all of ex-Muslims, who talk about why they left the religion of Islam. How it is so demeaning to women especially. Islam is a virus, convert or kill, and it sacrifices itself just to kill as well. It works exactly like a disease or virus.

Answer 6

Perhaps because the west has seen the bruises hidden beneath the veil??

Answer 7

i dont give a crap what they do in their own country, but when they want to live in OZ, they can either embrace aussie culture or they can f*ck off back to their country.

Oz doesnt suffer with hate, wars and pain that other countries do, and we'd like to keep that way. So if you don't want to be an aussie then dont come to Australia!

Answer 8

Because it is absurd. I have pushed this on two occasions, and the man both times ended up saying it was a matter of respect. It isn't liberating and it isn't voluntary. Stop acting like we are stupid.

Answer 9

Because no one cares.

Answer 10

I don't know anyone who cares one way or the other