Saudis and women

Tasha Kheiriddin in today's National Post credits Saudi Arabia for giving women a municipal vote in 2015. Hello? That is 4 years from now, giving the Saudis lots of time to change their minds. It is such a small step. It is like applauding an alcoholic for saying he will start drinking at 8:00 a.m. instead of at 7:00 a.m. in four years. A real step forward is taking a positive step now. The Saudis have done nothing except look for sympathy. Let's not applaud them for it. Let's continue to tell them that their moral standards and customs are inferior to ours - that's right, much of their morals and culture is inferior to that of the "infidels".

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch says it spends a proportionate amount of time on Israel as other countries.
Umm. Saudi Arabi is not a paragone of Human Rights Freedoms. It has 2,240,000 square kilometers in area and in 1997, a population of 16,000,000 people which now must be at least 25,000,ooo people. Israel has an area of 21,000 square kilometers or 1/100th of the area of Saudia Arabia and currently a population of about 7,000,000 people or between 1/3 and 1/4 of the population. Human Rights Watch should be spending between 3 and 100 times the amount of time on Saudi Arabia.Yet it is obvious that Human Rights Watch and everyone else spends much more time on Israeli Human rights than on the much more serious Saudi human rights. So Human Rights Watch has most likely lied and Siddiqui has printed the lies. Am I surprised? No. Am I disappointed? Yes.