Rabbi's Commentary: One Woman's Life under Islamic Law

Dear Friend of Israel,

In her new book titled Veiled Honor, author Mary Laurel Ross chronicles her years living in Saudi Arabia. Though her husband's work as a career U.S. military officer had taken her to many far-flung locations around the world, what Ross found in the Middle East was, in her own words, a land "exotic and disarming… a world apart from any place I had ever been." The inhabitants of that "world apart," Ross discovered, had customs and practices unlike any she had ever experienced.

A prolific letter-writer, Ross began to document her experiences in letters to friends and family in the U.S. These letters became the basis for Veiled Honor. Being a foreigner, Ross was not subject to many of the harsh restrictions enforced on Saudi women under Saudi Arabia's strict system of Shari'a (Islamic law). But, being a woman, she was particularly shocked to see that Saudi women were required to be veiled, were subjugated to men in all aspects of society, and were denied basic civil liberties and legal protections afforded women in the West. Blah... Blah...

Hey racist rabbi you sound like the rabbi's son, Lenin who murdered by the millions ... Oh... and you remind me of that jewish 'women's liberator' who went to Iran in the middle of their titanic struggle to free themselves from israeli-american control trying to sow havoc without success. Yet that jewish 'women's liberator' never tried to 'liberate' the orthodox Jewish women, degraded, forbidden the synagogue, their heads shaved bald and only permitted intercourse with a sheet between themselves and their husbands...