Saudis go high tech: Saudi men get an automated text message when their wife or wives try to run away.

Yes, this is true; you simply can’t make this stuff up. Saudi women are now tracked as they cross any border or airport departing Saudi Arabia; their male ‘guardians’ receive an automated text message if they try to escape; this could be any time including under the cover of darkness, or should I say ‘under their covers of darkness?’

Attention all you pinhead liberals who believe in cultural relativity; who believe there is no absolute right or wrong; who believe that no culture is superior to another; well I dare you to go to Saudi Arabia and test your ridiculous theory.

I worked in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for one year—one year too long I might add—and these were just some of the repressive restrictions I faced and observed while I was there; just some of the things that are not absolute wrongs in the eyes of our liberal, cultural relativists:

• I had to surrender my passport on arrival; I didn’t get it back until I had collected about 10 official stamps from my employer showing that I had adhered to my contract and had a colleague guarantor to cover me for any debts I had.
• My wife had to wear a head scarf when she went out, and she couldn’t go out alone.
• We couldn’t travel from city to city without official documentation.
• We couldn’t buy any alcohol; of course many of us used to brew our own, but if we got caught it would be punishable by instant deportation or caning.
• If you were at a restaurant during prayer time, you would be kicked out, either by the owner or by the Mutawa, the religious police.  
• If we needed something done to our house, I had to leave work and go home as it was against the law for a serviceman to visit our house with only my wife present.
• Saudi women had to wear fully-covered burqas outside their homes. They couldn’t go out alone nor could they drive and most couldn’t work.
• Saudi women had separate places to eat in restaurants from men, etc. Have you ever considered how Saudi women eat or drink through a burqa? Well I got a glimpse of it one day; they have to push their food or drink up under their burqas from their wastelines to their mouths.
• If a Saudi man was wealthy enough and could afford many wives, he could do so, which essentially meant no wives for poor Saudi men.
• Saudi boys could not speak to Saudi girls, and as a result their first sexual experience was often with another man. It was also common knowledge that young, male workers from third-world nations were often picked up, raped, murdered, and buried in the desert.
• The most vile aspect of the Saudi culture is how they decapitate people in public at Chop Chop Square in downtown Riyadh—see images below. When an execution was about to take place, the Mutawa would round up and force people to watch. I actually went to Chop Chop Square, but never saw an actual beheading—I don’t think I missed much.

Enough diversion, now back to the article about automated text messaging and the repression of Saudi women; the repression of women that feminists conveniently fall silent on as repression of women is only caused by evil white men. Go to any tertiary institution in New Zealand that has programs for international students and you will see female Saudi students wearing fully-covered burqas being taught by feminists who somehow find it fitting to conveniently overlook their feminism while teaching these students. When teaching these students they remove their doublethink, feminist hats and replace them with their cultural-relativity hats; they place cultural relativity and political correctness ahead of education.

Just imagine for a moment you are in a class and you are teaching English to women wearing fully-covered burqas with full knowledge that over 50% of language is conveyed through facial expressions, wouldn’t that make you a big hypocrite if you endorsed it; wouldn’t that make you a shocking teacher knowing you can’t see your student’s facial expressions? Well that is exactly what we have teaching our children; shocking doublethink liberals; people who cannot decipher wrong from right.

Read the Guardian article:   

Saudi Arabia criticised over text alerts tracking women's movements

Male 'guardians' receive text message whenever women leave country under new system

Saudi Arabia has been accused of behaving like Big Brother after introducing technology that alerts male "guardians" by text whenever women under their guardianship leave the country.

The kingdom already bans women from driving and excludes them from most workplaces. It also disapproves of women's sport. Since last week it has been operating a new electronic system that tracks all cross-border movements.

The system functions even if a woman is travelling with her husband or male "guardian", with a text sent immediately to the man. Saudi women must get formal approval from their guardians to travel abroad, and have to hand in an infamous "yellow slip", signed by a male, at the airport or border.

The move has prompted protests. "The new compulsory text service, compliments of the Saudi ministry of interior, is not only a vicious reminder that Big Brother is watching me but that now he will snitch and tell my 'guardian' every time I leave the country," Safa Alahmad, a freelance journalist and documentary maker, said. "Apparently, as a Saudi woman, I don't even deserve the simplest of rights like the right to privacy. The core issue remains the same. Saudi women are viewed and treated as minors by the Saudi government. A text message doesn't change that. It's just adding insult to injury."

"The authorities are using technology to monitor women," the columnist Badriya al-Bashr wrote, criticising the "state of slavery under which [Saudi] women are held".

Some Twitter users compared the Riyadh government to the Taliban. Others jokingly suggested women should be microchipped to keep tabs on them. Read more:

Footnote: Before I went to Saudi, I saw images of Saudi women in burqas on TV, etc., and never really thought much about it as seeing them on TV was somewhat in the abstract. But when I arrived there and saw large groups of them peering through their burqas, the penny really dropped; that’s a sick, repressive culture.