The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #106368   Message #2197177
Posted By: Little Hawk
18-Nov-07 - 10:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bad Intentions
Subject: RE: BS: Bad Intentions
Hmmm...'scuse me...

It's "xenophobia". (fear or dislike of strangers and foreigners)

By the way, in case anyone is wondering, I find the attitudes toward women in Saudi society totally disgusting and I always have found them so. I find their religious attitudes horrifying in many respects. I thank God I do not live there.

Similar miscarriages of justice have occurred in the past in India among the country people and the less educated people...in that case among a predominantly Hindu population, not a Muslim population. For instance, women were often expected to throw themselves on their husband's funeral pyre and burn up along with him...(since they were considered to be worthless without him). Widows are often abandoned by society and forced to become street beggars. Young women who are raped are often blamed for presumably "causing" the incident themselves and are considered "ruined" for marriage as a result, which in effect ruins them for life in general in that society! It's not just a problem limited to Muslim societies.