Pope Benedict XVI and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia,the male face of a saudi female,
at the Vatican.
since when protection
is violence?
By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Vienna,Sunday, February 10,2008: A proud Saudi
woman writing for Al-Watan daily of sand land
kingdom of Saudi Arabia of the custodian of holy
places defends the elaborate system of female
panty padlock out side the country and inside
the country to please the Virtue Commission
members, being carried by a =maharam= delegation
as a status symbol like that of the Her Highness
Queen accompanied by half a dozen delegations.But
may I ask wahabi mullah hadith vertical gossip
experts,who carried in Jahilia and later in early
Islamic Umma the panty padlock of Khadija bint
Khuwaylid alias Khadija tul Kubra,the employer
turned wife of the future and then current Prophet
Muhammed,May Peace be Upon Her,MPUH
for short?Had similar delegations protecting her
when her =hisbend= Muhammed went leading
her business caravan into Syria and beyond?
Will the hadith vertical gossip Wahabi mullah mob
explain?With authentication that is.Did Muhammed
when he was not yet the Prophet, carry the key of
his elderly wife´s panty padlock with him as legal
=maharam= that is a delegation of caravan? Who
had before him in the Jahilia kept the panty
padlock? It may be of special interest to the United
Nations Special Rapporteur Yakin Ertürk, because
she has to come to a conclusion that basis is not it
proper?
Now the text of Omima defense:
(courtesy:arab news)
well defended
by Omima Al-Jalahma
=I thank the United Nations Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW) for their serious attempt to evaluate
the social status of women in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia and their appreciation of the
Kingdom's initiatives to issue legislation that
grant women rights. I must be thankful for their
efforts in seeing positive things in my country.
Yet that doesn't mean I must be quiet concerning
the unfairness of CEDAW's report against a
country where women are given their rights
fully, unlike women in many other countries,
including those in the West (which should remain
unnamed for obvious reasons. kb)
I sense the jealousy of many Western and
Eastern women I meet in international events
when I tell them that my male colleagues - who
financially take care of their families - earn a
monthly salary equal to what my female
colleagues and I make. Equality in the salary
scale for men and women has been achieved
in an admirable way in the Kingdom. I usually
see resentment on the faces of foreigners when
I question why they can't convince their leaders
that women deserve the same amount of money
men take, (it is lost on Omima that equal payment
for men and women is protected by law almost
everywhere in the world,she can ask space woman
Sunita Williams,when she gets a chance to travel
in space with her maharam delegations.kb)
especially when they do the same jobs as men
with the same amount of effort, efficiency and
time and they have the same qualifications.
I ask how they accept being paid less when
they work an equal number of hours and
achieve the same results. What I understand
according to their laws is that they are paid less
simply because they are women. (Is that so
Condoleeza Rice?.kb)
Yes, I'm a pampered (under panty padlock)
Saudi woman. Being pampered isn't just because
I'm a human being,but because I'm a woman. (A
woman in Saudi Arabia is not a human Omima?kb.)
This is my official status. As for my social status,
( as no human woman.kb) there are some social
violations that may affect some women (for example:
the Qatif girl.kb.) But they also affect men. They are
usually a bunch of social contradictions that defame
the country's view and they can't be generalized to
describe our society. The reason why these
contradictions exist is that people are ignorant of
the sublime constitution of the Kingdom (machinery
of female genital mutilation for example ! kb.)that is
based on Islam, which elevated the value of the
(male) human being and took into consideration the
natural differences between men and women. These
differences as we see and understand complement
each other.
As for the woman's independence in making
decisions, I say that the law protects her financial
independence (nothing else for toilet going decision
etc she is dependent on her delegation,mahram kb.)
and her academic freedom.The consent of a male
guardian isn't necessary for a woman to pursue her
studies at Saudi universities. In fact, her degree isn't
given to her guardian unless she signs an
authorization letter for him.(In Japan there is an
unwritten law that when woman studies after her
marriage her=hisbend=gets the graduation
certificate kb)The allowance the students
- men and women - receive while studying in
public universities that are $266 a month are not
given to the legal guardian but directly to the
students (thanks to the invisible Allah).The student
also chooses what field she wants to study without
her guardian's permission or consent. As for
inheritance, the woman - no matter how much
money she has - isn't forced according to the
law to financially support her family and not
even to contribute to household expenses.
If she supports her family financially, then
she does it willingly out of love like Khadija
bint Khuwaylid she can also pay for her =hisbend´s=
new love mates acquired to protect them of
course.kb).But no law can force her to do so.
Islamic law (that is Sharia kb)states that a man
inherits twice as much as a woman inherits.
However,in many other cases she inherits more
than the man when he's the one responsible for
financing her needs (like her imrpisonment at home,
the expenses of genital mutilation surgery
etc.kb) irrespective of whether she's richer or
poorer than he is.
As for women having a mahram (male legal guardian),
I really laughed about CEDAW's objection to the idea.
I'm a Saudi woman who doesn't leave the country
without having an official delegation (male legal
guardian, mahram is then plural please note.kb) that
takes care of me and looks after my needs when traveling.
Having a mahram is just like having official delegations
accompanying VIPs and political leaders. If Britain's
queen or the American president agreed to travel
without a high caliber delegation that included
security, diplomatic, media and administration
cadre, then I might agree to be deprived of my
mahram.( in other words every Saudi genetically
mutilated woman is =a her Highness=followed
by security holding panty padlock,diplomatic,
media and administration cadre that is an
imported slave house maid.kb)
The Higher Education Ministry's condition to
have a mahram when women travel to study
for their scholarships costs the country fortunes.
The ministry spoils Saudi students by granting
them and their mahrams costs of living, academic
expenses and tickets.The ministry gives a monthly
income to the mahram and if this mahram is a
husband, then the ministry takes care of the
husband and the children too. Seriously, is
there a way to indulge a woman more than this?
And guess what? Any student's mahram can
pursue his education and be granted a scholarship
by the ministry.
What I'm trying to say is to explain a Saudi
vision of a Saudi woman that hopes to receive
proper respect from CEDAW and its allies. I
also hope that what I wrote attracts the
attention of Yakin Ertürk, the special rapporteur
of the United Nations Human Rights Council on
Violence Against Women. At the same time, I
wish that women around the world could find a
tiny bit of the pampering I receive (with padlock
in the hands of delegation maharam. kb.)here
being a Saudi woman.(Please do not consider
this is a soft plea for female conversion into Wahabi
Islamic Jihad.kb)
Faisal Faculty and member of the Shoura Council.
her Email: omima@alwatan.com.sa
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