blauerengel
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Unfortunately you are right,anyone who says that women have the SAME rights in Saudi Arabia as men are wrong.They don´t even have the same rights on the paper,in Europe we do have the same rights on the paper,just sometimes we have to fight and argue to receive what is fair&just.The old traditions and misconceptions that keep men from accepting women as equal partners are still present(even though Prophet Mohammed was quite a feminist for his time-allowing his wife to fight with him and praising mothers and women´s work for the society which a lot of men completely forget and ignore!)Equal rights under the law do not exist in the Kingdom.
I also wanted to quote a witness who has known the mother of the child:
"She was a woman who was a real fighter and a very positive person, and plus, there were plans to see [her daughter] Aya in mid-September. That was her greatest motivation of all."
Supposed she was really depressed,she could not have fought such a hard legal war to win back her child-the pressure must have been enormous and I´m sure the Saudis tried to intimidate her or give her money to stop her.This lady had an enormous will and she doesn´t show any signs of depression-if she did,she would have killed herself before she won the custody case.Of course none of us was present and knows all the details but to me the case is quite clear.
I hope that a lot of Saudi&Muslim men,especially those with power&money will stand up and say "Shame on you for treating the mother of your child so badly!"
I don´t understand why the Prince could not make an arrangement with the lady like a lot of other men with multiple wives or children born out of the wedlock do.Hopefully the girl will be accepted and loved by her stepmother!
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