Netrox is definitely right. I didn't know some of this stories (above).
A deaf Saudi woman was my classmate, and she told me that she forced to wear cover everything from head to foot. It is so hot for her and women in the summer. She obeys the laws. I heard that she has 6 children now. (I do not remember if her husband has two wives. Too werid.)
In Arab, if a woman loose her clothes to keep cool off outside in the public, her husband beats her badly, and he controls her. Some young women do not cover their head which mean to let the men know that they are singles.
That's their traditional, even the women hate it.
You guys - What about China? Our country owes a huge loan of money from China. We did not ask for the loan expect uneducated Bush. If China has oil and gas that provides us to buy from them? Will you buy the gas? For me, no way.
It would be so nice if all women were treated alike queen but it never happen to every woman around the world. Yes it is truly sad but why focus on Saudi Arabia only when we all have trouble in other part of world alike in Thailand where children were sold into slave sex and Americans go there and have sex with little children there. Have heard too many horror stories around the world, not just middle east only.
I never really like China and do not know why we have to buy their stuffs at walmart or target. We have to sell our lumber to China, and our forest are getting smaller each year.