In many ways. A woman's testimony is legally recognized as inferior in a court of law, in Saudi Arabia.
Which woman's testimony was rejected?
This opens their society up to a whole horrorhouse of abuses by men, who have only to match their superior word against the inferior word of women.
To whom has this happened?
Physical punishment is dealt out to women who don't meet the male-dictated standard of dress.
And punishment is not doled out to men who do not meet the state dictated standards of dress? Also is this issue peculiar to Islamic countries?
Unpunished "honor killings" take place almost exclusively in muslim countries.
Which "honour killing" was unpunished?
We have a thread in another forum here about a muslim preacher calling for the stoning of adultering women, and an article about how women are legally raped by government employees before their executions, because apparently a virgin woman's life is sacred until she's had sex. Then it becomes okay to kill her.
Since when is expressing an opinion or uncorroborated propaganda a statistic for oppression?
Need I go on..?
Yeah. Please do. I'm curious to hear more. Its always interesting to hear how travel broadens the mind. My years in the Middle East have been more fruitful than I ever anticipated. They have allowed me to recognise the utter ignorance of some western "secularists"