| Posted: 13 June 2008 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | 6
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The masterminds are eductated and know of "western corruptions" and among those corputions are equality for woman and respect and tolerance for other religions. So I do think its a factor.
It's huge. I briefly dated a Saudi student while he was going to college in Tampa. Some of the conversations we had just boggled my mind and is the main reason I stopped seeing him. He loved living in America but the cultural differences were still amazing.
If a woman's husband dies, she does not inherit his wealth and properties. They remain with his male relatives and the wife goes back to her family. Women, when going to a beach, would still wear their full garb, even when swimming. The one that really got to me was even when a huband and wife had sex, in most homes, the wife would never be nude. She would still be in full garb and hoist up her clothing for the deed. O.o
He still believed in most of the traditional Saudi values but wanted to be in the US so he could be openly gay. If he wanted to go to a club while he was living in SA, he had to go to another country because if it was discovered it would bring a shame to his family that would lower their place in society. He was a very casual Muslim. He didn't do the multiple daily prayers. He wouldn't eat pork because he felt pigs were dirty, not for religious reasons. Though, many time he was tempted to try bacon because he loved the smell, heh.
So ya, it is a big part of it.
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