Topic: Saudi Women win Elections for the first time - page 4. (Read 3147 times)
Yeah... big deal. Saudi women can't go out in the public without a male companion. And the pro-Saudi media whores are making such noise over the alleged election of a few females there. Saudi Arabia has remained as a stone age country for the last 2,000 years or so. No amount of oil money has managed to make them civilized.
History will be when women have equal rights to the men in Saudi Arabia. And when they stop wearing those horrible, suffocating clothes that only show their eyes under the guise of religion! That is not religion -- it is a society and culture that controls and oppresses women. But the poor women probably do not even understand that because they are not allowed to think or choose for themselves.
Not only are Saudi Women contesting and voting in elections for the first time, they have won some seats as well. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/saudi-women-win-handful-of-seats-in-elections-to-local-councils/2015/12/13/39e2444c-9ad1-11e5-aca6-1ae3be6f06d2_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/saudi-women-win-handful-of-seats-in-elections-to-local-councils/2015/12/13/39e2444c-9ad1-11e5-aca6-1ae3be6f06d2_story.html
Looks like it's only a show: "The councils are the only government bodies elected by Saudi citizens. They do not have legislative powers, but advise authorities and help oversee local budgets." And as the article says some of the women who won had influential families. So they can say women participate and there is some democracy. But nothing changes. On the other hand if the government is doing this in response to pressure from the people that is a good sign. Means they believe using force as they usually do is not the way to solve the situation.
Not only are Saudi Women contesting and voting in elections for the first time, they have won some seats as well.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/saudi-women-win-handful-of-seats-in-elections-to-local-councils/2015/12/13/39e2444c-9ad1-11e5-aca6-1ae3be6f06d2_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/saudi-women-win-handful-of-seats-in-elections-to-local-councils/2015/12/13/39e2444c-9ad1-11e5-aca6-1ae3be6f06d2_story.html
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