BV, Little boys & girls need mahrem too. No where else do we hear about a *gang* of pedos chancing upon a little girl like that, one lone pedo is bad enough and what we usually hear about.
http://www.emirates247.com/crime/region ... 9-1.526128
It wouldn't be my country of choice to live in tbh but I wouldn't mind living there for a while if I was married and could go places on my own sometimes. Recently we were having a discussion with my parents, my mum saying 'heblaayo inanteeyda ayaa shaqo fiican ka heshay Sucuudiga, oo lacag xaddhaaf ah lla siiyaa ( no experience after graduating and she still landed a job in SA) ...maad shaqo halkaas ka eegataan?' We,the girls that is, all turned to her in horror.
'yaa? We don't mind Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait too. It's awash with jobs, and extremely well paying jobs too, but it's really sad that it has become a no go area for unmarried Muslim women. One of my cousins went there, full of excitement she embraced the niqaab and found work straightaway. Guess what? she didn't last long {we were pretty shocked} and came running back to America. When we asked her what happened..she told us she felt suffocated...and mind you this is a religious girl.
If you want to go there, go with your husband and a husband that wouldn't mind being your personal driver. Some of these husbands because of laziness or whatever can't be arsed with ferrying their wives and daughters from place to place (I really don't blame them)...that's why Saudi men employ foreign drivers to take their wives and daughters out...poorer Saudis and expatriates cannot afford this and so women and girls just stay at home most of the time bored out of their skulls. If the Saudi government forbade the hiring of non mahrem men as drivers, trust me these men would do a 360 and be supportive of women learning to drive.
Taxis are few and far between from what I've seen on a t.v programme and one has to wait ages for them in the blistering heat. Buses are pretty much nonexistent.
I teared up a little especially around 1:13
It's so sad that culture trumps Islam everywhere in the Muslim world from Somalia to Saudia to Pakistan etc etc.
