Last weekend, a Saudi newspaper reported that a judge in Saudi Arabia ruled that husbands are allowed to slap their wives when they spend too much shopping. I’m not making this up.
Ridiculous decisions that sanction domestic violence obviously harm all Saudi citizens — men and women alike. But at a time when our government is working to undo the “us vs. them” foreign policy of the last administration and open the hearts and minds of Americans to the importance of reaching out to different cultures around the world, such antiquated and sexist rulings hardly help this important cause.
Tags: Domestic Violence
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