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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uncharacteristically coming to PP's defense.  The problem is with the language she used.  She wrote:

"I performed Hajj several years ago and even in Mecca women were walking unaccompanied, with their husbands, or their children, or with other women. "

What she meant was along the lines of:

"I performed Hajj several years ago and even in Mecca women were walking unaccompanied, [b]as well as[/b] with their husbands, or their children, or with other women.

There is plenty to criticize about the position of women in Saudi Arabia, but [b]there is no prohibition on women walking unaccompanied on the street[/b].  (Although as one PP noted it rarely happens as everyone is driven everywhere in the Saudi Arabia of today, where walking has become a lost art.)

As I recall, however, I think the Taliban in Afghanistan did prohibit women from walking in public unaccompanied.[/quote]
I think that's not an honest way to address this. Saudi Arabia doesn't have any formal laws banning women driving either. The question you should ask is: is it culturally appropriate in Saudi Arabia to walk in the street unaccompanied if you are a woman?[/quote]

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