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Loujain is a University of British Columbia graduate and was a political prisoner: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=loujain+al-hathloul htt

Loujain is a University of British Columbia graduate and was a political prisoner: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=loujain+al-hathloul https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=loujain... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loujain_al-Hathloul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loujain_al-Hathloul Let's not forget that the present Saudi regime (MBS) is responsible for luring political opponents/journalists, killing them, and dismembering them with bone saws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashog...

BeetleB 5y ago
The irony is that he's also the one who forced the country to allow women to drive.
- Synaesthesia 5y ago
  It's just a very minor victory for women's rights and it was a very impractical law anyway. It's still a very oppressive country where being a dissident means getting threatening phone calls from the security agencies. Remember 2011 when there were popular protests all around the Arab world? Well they tried to do one in Saudi as well but the intimidation was so high, that it never got off the ground.
  - newyankee 5y ago
    The entire reason Saudi is so powerful is because of Oil Wealth and its special relationship to US since WW2
  - BeetleB 5y ago
    - svilen_dobrev 5y ago
      wonders of i'net.. you know, there is something called female circumcision. And the society+culture behind it, has been applying it even on women born and living outside it, when they once visited their relatives.. (described in book: Ever Since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality - Malcolm Potts and Roger Short, 1999)
      - BeetleB 5y ago
        Thanks for the non sequitur.
    - beebeepka 5y ago
      - BeetleB 5y ago
        People are automatically assuming I'm siding with MBS.
- user_7832 5y ago
  Call me cynical but no part of that seems anything other than a PR move, and a weak one at that. He's just trying to build an image, though how successful he's been is sometimes shown though (non-malicious) comments like yours.

BeetleB 5y ago

The irony is that he's also the one who forced the country to allow women to drive.

Synaesthesia 5y ago
It's just a very minor victory for women's rights and it was a very impractical law anyway. It's still a very oppressive country where being a dissident means getting threatening phone calls from the security agencies. Remember 2011 when there were popular protests all around the Arab world? Well they tried to do one in Saudi as well but the intimidation was so high, that it never got off the ground.
- newyankee 5y ago
  The entire reason Saudi is so powerful is because of Oil Wealth and its special relationship to US since WW2
- BeetleB 5y ago
  - svilen_dobrev 5y ago
    wonders of i'net.. you know, there is something called female circumcision. And the society+culture behind it, has been applying it even on women born and living outside it, when they once visited their relatives.. (described in book: Ever Since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality - Malcolm Potts and Roger Short, 1999)
    - BeetleB 5y ago
      Thanks for the non sequitur.
  - beebeepka 5y ago
    - BeetleB 5y ago
      People are automatically assuming I'm siding with MBS.
user_7832 5y ago
Call me cynical but no part of that seems anything other than a PR move, and a weak one at that. He's just trying to build an image, though how successful he's been is sometimes shown though (non-malicious) comments like yours.