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Melania Trump?
Enjoyed talking to the incredible women working hard @GE_Saudi service center. Great strides being made towards the empowerment of women.
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A few of those women don't look especially empowered.
trueblue2007
(17,205 posts)i pity those ladies. slaves to men, never having a good life. my heart goes out to them
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Saudi Arabia is the home of the most fundamentalist, most oppressive version of Islam in the world.
Siwsan
(26,259 posts)I suspect that Melania does what she's told and not much more.
Doodley
(9,088 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)They got a rabbi's permission so it's OK if they do it. Everything is OK if THEY do it.
Cha
(297,141 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)emulatorloo
(44,115 posts)Seems more like a John Miller or Meredith McIver production.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)But she did pose for the photo.
emulatorloo
(44,115 posts)A bit off topic, but I think you will find this thread interesting:
Trump supporters' heads, SCANNERS EDITION, after he calls Islam "one of worlds great faiths"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029097850
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Their Twitter feeds appear to be about everything but Trump in Saudi Arabia.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)They're afraid they'll react like Roger Stone just did.:
Link to tweet
I don't think Stone even realizes Trump curtsied to King Salman after the King put the medal on his neck, he wad just pissed off at the picture of the bow for the medal. Stone doesn't watch MSM news, and Fox sure didn't show the curtsy. In fact they ran a false headline that "Trump shakes hands with Saudi leader, doesn't bow as Obama appeared to do," showing Trump at the airport, not the medal ceremony.
Wait till his base gets a load of Trump's curtsy:
Link to tweet
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)It WAS Jared's idea to fire Comey. Does Stone dislike Jared, Bannon or both?
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)...is all I ever see her do.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Melania would look great in a Burka. Maybe he will buy her one.
emulatorloo
(44,115 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)sheshe2
(83,743 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)about getting a picture with Melania is an order given to them by their men. How can Melania encourage them to be successful when she is not far from where they are as far as being respected from her husband. No matter how successful Melania and Ivanka might be it would not surprise them in the least if they saw trump treat either one of them badly because no matter how successful a woman in that country may be she is still under the tight rule of a man and if you really think about their success it is really the mans because they are only doing what they are allowed or told to do.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)Because that's how it appears - and that is the Saudi way.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)that much attention to her.
MFM008
(19,805 posts)I thought the covered ones were all burned or horribly deformed....
MFM008
(19,805 posts)........
elleng
(130,865 posts)than mere appearance.
Thanks.
Chemisse
(30,809 posts)It's very creepy.
dalton99a
(81,450 posts)and she couldn't care less
progressoid
(49,978 posts)while her husband is one of the biggest online bullies.
dalton99a
(81,450 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)... then it is a dig at her husband: Back off!
Leith
(7,809 posts)TATA Consultant Services? It looks like somebody didn't think that through well enough.
Look at it this way: some of them have decorations on their burkas and two of them are ninjas!
Squinch
(50,949 posts)elleng
(130,865 posts)One MUST understand their cultures.
Chemisse
(30,809 posts)And I am fine with most of the garb. I have a lot of Arabic students who wear head coverings. They can be really pretty and stylish.
I just have a hard time getting past the burka. It screams out 'I am a prisoner.' Even if the women who wear them are on board with this on religious grounds, they have to be hot, uncomfortable, and physically and visually restrictive.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)To add some context.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)No cultural tradition justifies it. None. The Koran does not require a burqa for women. Burqas are very different than a mere head scarf. A head scarf does not cover a person's face or obliterate their identity, impede their ability to see, or dehumanize them.
I can't believe a progressive would defend burqas and attack other progressives as being ignorant about "culture" simply for pointing out the obvious about burqas.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Thanks for this post.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Or cross a street?
Is this one of those time-travel tours back to the 7th century?
Melania must be renegotiating her prenup to go along with this.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,306 posts)(Given Saudi Arabia's attitude to non citizens, perhaps that should be "how many Saudi Arabian men are those women in charge of?"
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I'm guessing they'd be arrested and beaten by a cane.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)This is from April of this year:
SADUI MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER DECLARING HIMSELF AN ATHEIST IN ONLINE VIDEO
A Saudi Arabian man who posted videos of himself disparaging the Prophet Muhammad and renouncing Islam on Twitter had his second appeal against a 2015 death sentence denied earlier this week.
http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-man-sentenced-death-after-declaring-himself-atheist-online-video-591473