Canada, the North American bastion of sanity and compassion…
Good. She’s a brave person and deserves a safe, rights-respecting place to live. I wish we were that place, but right now we’re not. It’s humiliating, but Canada is what we should aspire to be. Shaking my head. Good luck, Alqunun.
Great for her to escape a life I would die from, it will not be an easy adjustment but hopefully there will be a Saudi community to help her along the way.
Would just like to add I knew nothing about this until trying to read this poorly written article that couldn’t give us the background information until the end. I hate that type of writing.
aww honey it’s {AP} - we’re lucky they didn’t end it with how well the hijaab industry is doing and what a great opportunity it is for female entrepreneurs
“Runaway?” What a very strange way to characterize this young woman’s status.
Hoping you can access this which is well written
I’m usually only reading the AP when it gets posted here and usually one paragraph in, I know it’s not TPM. God, their stories go on and on and so much of it is irrelevant and convoluted.
Thanks, I will. Haven’t gone over my allotment this month!
You know where I’d be without my daily of news coverage from NYT? Nowhere. So glad you can still access it.
Try this one too. It even has her name right. And note “refugee” in the headline.
You’re absolutely right! Was about to ask who Surachate is (not identified in the AP story). NYT says: immigration chief Surachate Hakpark
She’s a brave young woman. Also, speaking as a dual American-Canadian citizen, I’m very happy that at least one of my home countries continues to make me proud. I just have to keep doing whatever I can to get my other home country back to that status. We took a big step in the right direction in 2018. I want us to take several bigger steps in that direction during 2019 and 2020. MAAA - Make America America Again.
I’m not ignorant of what happens to women in Saudi, but reading articles freshens the memory and it sends cold chills down my spine hearing how women are treated.
I imagine as more is written and women escape, others will be emboldened to leave.The genie is out of the bottle.
A few of whom will feel honor-bound to kill her. Nope.
Their lame attempts at fair and balanced are breathtakingly bad - and monumentally frustrating.
Jesus girl, the US offers so much, like being told in the grocery line “why don’t you go back to where you came from?”, and health care…we have THE BEST, it has to be, you’ll never be able to afford it. How about school? Enjoy the $60,000.00 debt you’ll rack up going to an American college. What’s Canada got? Hockey, beer and poutine.
We American women take it for granted that we have freedom to travel, aren’t bound by law to be subservient to men, dress modestly so as no to offend, everything required under Sharia law, and we need to be reminded as in this young woman’s story it’s not like this everywhere.
That the American president is tying himself to this country is shameful beyond measure. In contrast, Hillary would have focused on making women’s rights be regarded as human rights.
One of the articles said she was locked in her room for 6 weeks for cutting her hair. Under the thumbs of men telling you what you can/can’t do sounds like my idea of hell. The fact that she had her own money to be able to afford a plane ticket was surprising. I hope her family leaves her alone, but I bet they’ll still keep hounding her to come back and conform. She will have to stay strong, but an 18 year old, from a completely foreign culture, escaping on her own is strong.
The US did not offer her asylum because they value Saudi Arabia more than human rights. OT my cousin received word that citizenship in Canada was granted to her. She is selling their house and moving there. Not sure if we are ready to apply for Canadian citizenship. Too far away from son and his family.