Comments for "Female Author Talks About Women, Sex and Taboos in Saudi" Video at VideoSift.com

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Thu, 03 May 2007 06:12:57 -0700

Interesting, enlightening. She is well spoken I am sure there are some Saudi government officials, religious officials and aged men who think she is BAD for business!

By gluonium

gluonium (http://www.videosift.com/member/gluonium) — Thu, 03 May 2007 06:17:59 -0700

the problem lies less with interpretation of the texts than it does with the texts themselves. it's not the ambiguous and open to interpretation parts of religious texts that are used as justification for sexism/misogyny, but rather the parts that say things like "Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.". Not much room for subjective interpretation there I'm afraid. what were they supposed to "save them" for? so they could be taken out shopping and to a fancy restaurant and maybe a movie later?

By gwaan

gwaan (http://www.videosift.com/member/gwaan) — Thu, 03 May 2007 07:58:05 -0700

gluonium

NOWHERE in the Qur'an or hadith does it say: "Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man."!!!

By gluonium

gluonium (http://www.videosift.com/member/gluonium) — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:32:48 -0700

uhh yeah I know. it's from the bible. the point is that there are nearly equally disgusting directives in the Qur'an and many other religious texts, it seems a common thread to all three of the the monotheistic religions.