Saudi Monitor

The article and the video are completely unrelated. And no, she is not paid, regardless of what kind of delusion you might have. And neither do she hide in the hotel. The fact is, despite what propaganda you may have heard, KSA is by far according to many visitors, one of the most interesting, safest, welcoming, and life-changing travel experience on the entire planet! Before that, you can be comforted knowing many westerners have visited The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and shared their experiences. https://www.backpacking-with-the-bonds.com/kingdom-of-saudi-arabia/

Those who complain about criticisms are in fact those with insecurities. Well, here's a wake up call -- you aren't nor have you ever been "superior" and neither do you have anything to stand on to be lecturing others with you're propaganda. There are in fact millions Saudis and other people across the world who live more fulfilling lives than your average Canadian/Westerner. There are in fact many Saudis and other people across the world that can proclaim with certainty that their lives are "better" than your average Canadian/Westerner. In other words, Keep throwing stone in a glass house and flattering yourself. Don't expect people to not call on your'e imperialist nonsense, hypocrisy and propaganda. And if you think that only Canadians/Westerners have the right to judge others, then perhaps you should attempt actually living in the world instead of that delusional bubble you call reality. And the notion that other cultures and civilization must follow whatever becomes the norm in Canada/west. is a form of imperialism, indeed, usually utilized under the guise of "human right" and such. There are plenty of people who visit KSA and the most common (in fact, the almost universal reaction) you hear from them is that KSA isn't anything like it is portrayed in the West. My visit to Saudi Arabia changed all my perceptions

SNC-Lavalin’s $1.24-billion writedown an example of the cost of Ottawa’s foreign policy https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-snc-lavalins-124-billion-writedown-latest-sign-of-soured-canadian/

Many Canadian women are victims of violence in their own society. This prompted a brave Canadian women Shelley Saywell to produce a film on this subject. This is what i mean, when i say Canadians need to first get their own house in order. SHE’S DOCUMENTED VIOLENCE ALL OVER THE WORLD, BUT DOMESTIC ABUSE IN CANADA SHOCKED HER https://www.cbc.ca/firsthand/blog/shelly-saywell-the-war-at-home

Canadians need to first get their own house in order. They have no standing to talk about human rights to anyone. As for human rights violation, your southern neighbor would win that trophy. Regardless, colonizers used to call native people "Savages" in order to justify taking their land and promote their ideology and values, In modern term , "Human Right" have largely replaced that term. Canadians should deal with the challenges they face in their own society, ranging from homelessness, to the treatment of the Indigenous people as second-class citizens, legalizing sex with animals, and the brutal policy of infringing upon the rights of children and their parents by permitting underage kids to go under the knife for gender realignment and so forth. However, how you manage your affairs isn't the business of anyone outside your own realm, as long as you respect others national rights and not try to speak for people who have given you no mandate or right to do so.

I would like to introduce myself, I came here to exchange views regarding political events around the world. The views I share on issues is one that might be different than what many are accustomed to hearing, but as long as you have an open mind to hear me out, I promise to do the same and hear you out as well. I look forward to exchanging views and believe that, in the process, the various perspectives that are exchanged will leave their appropriate imprint with us. I intend to advance a message that paints a picture that is ultimately different than what the "mainstream media" likes to paint about Saudi Arabia. Secondly, I like to scrupulously avoid getting into exchange of personal insults and ad hominem attacks and look forward to you reciprocating the same.

Spare me you're santamonious attitude stereotypes, which is self-serving while it is also convenient to larger neo-imperalistic agendas, covering up those impulses under a false veneer of "humanitarian concerns". In a nuttshell, what you are saying is repeating things which bear no relationship to anything relevant. It doesn't matter what you have heard and even less, what you prefer to believe and repeat just to advance some ulterior agenda. The moral of the story is, most westerners are ignorant about the status of women in KSA as they are about the country in general. Go read the typical reaction from a Westerner visiting KSA. Almost their first comment is that KSA is nothing like the picture that is beamed about the country "back home". Truth to be told, Trudeau would have been a very good candidate to pick up mantle of change. Regrettably but predictably, Trudeau ultimately became little more than a hubris of virtue signaling and a mouthpiece for the special interest groups which have hijacked Canadian domsetic and foreign policy. Which is an answer that I submit is not good for Canada. Regarding, the western civilization, despite it has achieved great heights, it is a civilization that in its vitality and energy, also ironically shows in much greater focus the brutality and violent side of human nature, not to even speak about the social degeneration which is unfolding there. Furthermore, the left's prejudices against KSA arises from the left's larger hostility to religion and the larger set of social agendas that accompany that overt hostility (peoplekind xD). On the right, you have folks who are still carrying anti-Islamic prejudices. Both of them see the hijab as a symbol of submission and inferiority of women, ironically many of the women who began wearing the veil, saw it as a revolutionary symbol rejecting "Westernization" while fighting for women's equality! Moreover, some of the most past influential Saudi intellectuals posited that true women's rights were not advanced in the West, were women were degenerated and exploited as sexual objects. Instead, they argued, that women could reach their full potential under an Islamic system by wearing the Hijab and not serving as sexual objects, instead allowed to distinguish themselves fully as scientists, professionals, or as homemakers if they so chose. These influential intellectuals however, were strong proponents of women's education and their participation in the political, economic and social arena.

I try to keep my post short, so I will limit my comment to just say, I wish more people would get out and see more of the world. Traveling to a country like KSA and comparing your perceptions with the stereotypes you observe on mainstream media, like many other westerners who have visited, you are likely to end up questioning a lot of things. To be so fundamentally lied to when it comes to a country - one that is constantly in the news - requires a lot of effort and much propaganda. A Finnish woman’s mission to show the world Saudi Arabia’s cultural heritage gems I will be posting some pictures here, although they don't even begin to scratch the surface of all KSA has to offer. Thee Ain - The Marble village by frapho, on Flickr JEDDAH_AL HAMRA _1 by AHMED SAMIR, on Flickr Make Riyadh Green Again Nov-18-17 by Bader Alotaby, on Flickr Madinah by Photography Arabia, on Flickr Saudi Arabia Snow by ABO_TMEEM, on Flickr DSC00933 by Aiwaah Dot Com, on Flickr Dumat Al-Jandal by Waqas Toor, on Flickr . Abdul rauf Khalil's Museum & Mosque,Jeddah Alfaisaliya erea Ph.by M.Bakhdar by Muhammad Bakhdar, on Flickr HDR-0024.jpg by Linda Polik, on Flickr Day 3 Saudi National Day Festival by ArsEgo.ro Iulian Dinu 115 by Iulian Dinu, on Flickr Day 1 Saudi National Day Festival by ArsEgo.ro Iulian Dinu 65 by Iulian Dinu, on Flickr Castle oblique- قلعة المرقب by Mshari AL zhrani, on Flickr Makkah - the most peaceful city in the world - l by Ferdousi Begum, on Flickr Morning by saleh.sm7, on Flickr Al Taibat International City by Aditya Prabaswara, on Flickr Masmak by Faisal Bin Zarah, on Flickr Aisha Al Rajhi Mosque in Makkah by KSA الصور, on Flickr Angawi House by Walid Mahfoudh, on Flickr Riyadh Cityscape by Andrew A. Shenouda, on Flickr Diriyah viewed from Jubeirah Park rommrgb by Manny Dagohoy, on Flickr Above the clouds by KSA الصور, on Flickr Heritage Village In Al Ghat by Maher Najm, on Flickr Madain Saleh Archaeologic Site, Saudi Arabia by Eric Lafforgue, on Flickr Untitled by Faisal Bin Zarah, on Flickr

Liberating Muslim females from the evil Muslim men, has been a usefull tool for colonialism in the Muslim world in the past and continues to this day. Under its guise, western Ideas and values under the guise of rights for women has been instituted. It has never been about a genuine concern for Muslim females, but rather just using another angle to breakdown the hindrance against the Muslim resistance to western secular and liberal values and morality. To be sure, the real issue, really, isn't that I find everything about KSA and what it does to my liking. But that I find the propaganda against KSA to be driven by ulterior motives. Otherwise, for all its faults, I do find it rather interesting that in KSA there has been an undeniable improvement in women's actual status (based on every index and statistic, whether relating to education, work force participation, achievements, income disparity, life expectancy or whatever). And even if KSA didn't live up to the standards in the west as it relates to these issues, its citizens above all want you to mind your own business, regardless of whether they like or don't like something about their government. Within KSA, as we speak right now, there is much ongoing changes, reforms and debates taking place. To me, KSA future (including on women's rights) looks very bright, as long as the path that we follow is one were changes comes from internal dynamics as opposed to external. Today majority of university students and graduates in KSA are women. Even once a male dominated majors such as engineering or medicine are increasingly being dominated by females. In the work force too, you will find women well represented in most professions: among doctors, lawyers, dentists, entrepreneurs, and elsewhere. Saudi woman scientist at the forefront of polymer chemistry research https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=91&v=vmMHFmbPShs

First and foremost, greetings to everyone, new member here. To start, i think Justin and Freeland are behaving in a silly fashion again, seems like they are eager to settle scores with Saudi Arabia and taking advantage of a teenager with family issues. This girl is being put on a podium as some sort of liberated Muslim woman as soon as she abandons Islam. Indeed, linked to the savage colonial narratives of "saving the poor Muslim women". The fact that this one girl have been meet with so much attention by mainstream media, human rights organizations, United Nations etc is truly staggering. More so, over other more acute cases of abuse, torture etc as we speak, of people escaping war, poverty, conflicts and terror and seeking asylum from all over the globe and still waiting years , when this girl is not suffering from any of these problems - is rather telling. Promoting the narrative of "Others" ( ie Islam, the Saudi society and the government) as pure evil and the girl loss of faith and her love for alcohol and bacon as far more important. It seems having the quality to be used as a political tool against KSA is the shortest route to Canadian citizenship. However, the bottom line is, the same world media and the rights groups did not bother to pay any attention to the battered girls who escape from their families all over the world on a daily basis. Girls or boys escaping from their homes is not a strange phenomenon at a global level, and happens for many reasons. The global spotlight on a Saudi girl is plainly because she bears the Saudi Arabian nationality and is targeted by hate-mongers trying to use her story for their despicable agendas. Moreover, Freeland resorting to boasting in hosting her will not have any effect on KSA. It is clear that there is an agenda, one of the reason for resorting to such strategy, is to increase their political foothold in the public opinions. However, Saudi Arabia is wiser then going low to childish acts. It is a big country that bears great importance. The Rahaf case is purely a family matter and there are regulations guaranteeing her protection. She only had to report that she had been subjected to family violence. The Kingdom will receive her at any time she thinks of returning to her family and country. Just to remind, i love Canadian as a people and as a country, despite being people of different cultures, i belive we can chart the path to finding universally appealing answers to the problems in our world. There are over tens of thousands of Canadian citizens living in the Kingdom. They are enjoying security and safety. As a Nation and as a people, we will not deviate from deep-rooted heritage in order to engage in a war of words to reply to malicious absurdity. Sorry for rambling!