Will The Experiances Of Rahaf Mohammed Al-Qunun, Precipiate Change In Places Like Saudi Arabia?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46818237

[237SJ]

No, I don't think so. Saudi won't listen to women and there won't be any men in that country who will champion their cause

[Baldric]

Highly unlikely to I would have thought.

[ladybirder]

I think it's madness for the paper to tell the world she's living in Montreal. Not true hopefully.

[Gromit]

Not a chance.
The UK, and US kowtow to the horrendous regime in Riyadh Saudi Arabia , because we are seduced by their vast wealth.
So we forgive/turn a blind Eye or excuse their many atrocities. Terrible that the UK has been reduced to grovelling at the feet of such contemptible lowlifes, but money talks.

[237SJ]

I did think that Canada would be the best place for her. I`m not surprised that she has ended up there.

[ladybirder]

Me too but should the world be told where she is 237?

[237SJ]

Probably not but she has kind of shot herself in the foot by making her situation so public. She needed the publicity to help her but it's a double edged sward as she could now be a target for Islamists.

[Baldric]

Not a good idea imo, but too late now.

[237SJ]

Well, I guess she is only 18 years of age and she was just kicking back at the system and trying to get away from it.

[ToraToraTora]

do you think many more women will try and escape these barbarous lands now the example has been set?

[237SJ]

Just seen my typos - *sword*

[237SJ]

^ No I don't because they are not in a position to

[JF85]

Maybe I'm being cynical, but the 'Canada' sweatshirt she wore just made me think she is probably in New Zealand.

[237SJ]

Why would anyone want to go to live in New Zealand though (no disrespect)

[237SJ]

TTT - what do you think?

[ToraToraTora]

I think that many more women will find the courage to get away from these barbarous places and apply for asylum in any safe country. I think such cases would be considered genuine too.
"Why would anyone want to go to live in New Zealand though (no disrespect) " - not sure why you feel the need to disrespect NZ, it's a whole lot nicer than many of these middle eastern nations where women fear for their lives for the most trivial of "offences".

[237SJ]

Once (last year) I spent an hour or so at work trying to protect a Saudi lady from her husband who was trying to beat her up (he had already given her a bloody nose) The poor woman had nowhere to turn. I did sit her down and asked her whether her husband had hit her but she denied it. They always deny it. I would have loved to have taken her back to the UK but that was never going to happen

[-Talbot-]

How Twitter saved a Saudi woman



See... twitface ain't that bad is it?

[237SJ]

I would imagine that she would have got her message across if Twitter didn't exist

[-Talbot-]

How?



Without Twitter I think she would most probably be dead now.