wasted lives

universities not prisons

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,Saturday,December 15,2007: I want to bring back to the memory
of my readers that some ten years about fifty Saudi teenager girls were
burned to death virtuous by their gate keeper guard at the boarding and
lodging as he went locking them in the house on his =other= errands.
Since then the keepers of Holy Places,all male,have not learned
any lessons to make amends.The kingdom holds even today their
female children as virtual =virtue prisoners=.As we take children to
Kinder Garten and bring them back young women in one vote democracy
of Saudi Arabia are taken to universities and back home. They are strictly
under Virtue Police guards.The quoted arab news report is self explanatory.
It is this system being exported under Organization of Islamic
Conference Islamic Solidarity Fund, to be awarded for =South- South=
co-operation in New York on Wednesday, December 19,2007.Most probably
the Islamic College opened under this fund finance at Chicago also runs
on this value system!

It is now a new century after the sacrifice of those teenage girls under the
virtuous lock and key.We have lived through Islamic suicide airmen,
fifteen of them were from the Kingdom of Holy Places.If only those
young men were given a chance to see the faces of their females,perhaps
they would not have gone on suicide missions!Will old boy Abdullah
and his partner in the Grand Mosque, the Chief Wahabi Sheikh hear
the new Muezzin´s call during these festival of pilgrim days?

I appeal to the global community to save the Saudi young women from
their university prisons.I request the Organization of Islamic
Conference, instead of routing their Islamic Solidarity Funds
by devious ways as =South-South Cooperation= under the United
Nations flag, to export conflicts to foreign territories, use their funds
to free their women.And first and foremost, accept U.N.Human rights
standards instead of their Sharia/Hadith/Purana/Gossip standards
as human rights.That would do to the world a lot of good. I ask
them to read the quoted pan arab arab news news report and respond.

Quote:

Students, Teachers Resent ‘Obsolete’ Campus Rules Najah Alosaimi, Arab News

RIYADH, 15 December 2007 — Public schools for girls in Saudi Arabia are very closed-door institutions where men are virtually off limits. Each day as school lets out, the name of each student is called out over a microphone. Then the student’s guardian or driver approaches and custody (the female student) is handed over to him by a school caretaker(gate keeper). At the university level, where girls have become young women, one would expect things to be a little less guarded, right? (Here especially they should be guarded by Virtue Police,to keep them chaste!) Apparently not, according to women students who say they still feel that the university has too much control over their personal freedoms, from the color of the clothes they wear to being treated just like schoolgirls when they leave campus. At a major woman’s university in Riyadh, one student was seen arguing recently with a gatekeeper who was demanding she show documented proof that the considerably older man standing outside was in fact her father picking her up, something he has done since she was old enough to attend primary school as a young girl. Students say that the university, which is supposed to be a place where young women experience greater freedoms, needs to lighten up. “Typically girls are forbidden from leaving the university before noon because the gates are locked,” art student Sarah Helal told Arab News. This poses a problem for students who, like Helal, have only one morning lecture while the rest of the classes are in the afternoon. She ends up sitting on campus for four hours instead of having the freedom to go somewhere else and return later in the day ( Because the male gate keeper is one girls are many). “Due to this regulation, we lose a sense of time management,” said Fadwa, another student. “Girls are wasting three hours or more (learning to waste the rest of their lives) inside university campuses eating and gossiping, which doesn’t bode well for their future careers.” Nuha A., a student from Imam Muhammad ibn Saud University, said locking thousands of students in an enclosed campus is a safety threat.(Recalling the decade old incident) "Only one gate is opened during the day on a campus which holds more than 3,000 people,” she said. Hebah Banmey, a third-year translation student, told Arab News that her university life is almost as controlled as her time in high school. Her university, which styles itself as the oldest university in the Kingdom,(of Holy Places, MPBUH!) forces female students to wear a uniform consisting of a long, black skirt and long-sleeved white top. “We are only permitted to wear colors such as black, white and brown. These are drab, masculine colors,” she said, adding that her university has female guards at the gate to check outfits. “It’s very annoying to see BA and MA students barred from lectures because they wore pink or red tops. All of the world’s top universities manage to have ladies wear what they like and still graduate with excellent degrees.” A university official, who refused to have her name made public, told us: “The rules, which are set by college and university management, are meant to prevent females from exhibiting bad behavior. The university is responsible for their actions. One of the university’s roles is to be responsible for girls and guarantee that they are at the university during regular teaching hours and not going away without their parents’ permission. For this reason gates are closed during the day.” She also pointed out that the uniforms have been based on parents’ wishes in the first place. “The uniform eliminates the financial disparity between students and also encourages them to focus on their studies rather than what they look like,” said the source. But many academics expressed their resentment toward some of the rules at women’s universities. “Unfortunately public universities still operate under regulations that have been in existence since the 1960s, when women were first permitted access to higher education.”(quote ends). Dear darlings of Saudi Arabia, we take up your cause and liberate you.Count on us,grandfathers downwards to male babies, we are in solidarity with your cause. Cheer up.kb. (end)

Comments:
Good morning Kulamarva!

The way Saudi males treat their females is enough to make one wonder why they're not slaughtered in a wholesale female rebellion. Surely the women outnumber the males there? Being the females are mostly kept from largely congrigating together, this may not have occured to them. But still, at the university, 3,000 frustrating young women against one male gatekeeper? Why does he continue to live?
In case you cannot tell, I find the existence of traditional Saudi males completely insufferable. The fact that they DO exist brings out some considerable blood-thirstiness in me. Probably not your intention.
How are you doing this morning?--Ampbreia, Washington,U.S.A.