>>>>>>>It's totally irrelevant in this specific case! If you live in a country where the "religion is the law" as some of you write, it does not necessarily mean that you can blame the religion if someone commits a crime.
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>>>>>>You certainly can when the government (controlled by the 'religion') makes it hard or impossible to do anything when a crime (and they may not consider it such) is committed.
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>>>>>And where do you have that info from, in this specific case? Unless you can provide some evidence to confirm your statement, I think you actually prove my point.
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>>>>Did you not read the links I posted? The evidence was there - especially in the HRW link:
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>>>>http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2004/07/14/saudi-arabia-foreign-workers-abused
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia#Women.27s_rights
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia
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>>>If I should read all the links you provide, I would never get any time to work, eat and sleep. I stand by my words, the INITIAL link in this thread has absolutely nothing to do with religion. That was, is, and will always be my point in this case.
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>>Fair enough. I didn't realize you were limiting your information and basing your position entirely on that one link. I will agree that with no other knowledge of Saudi Arabia, the link itself does nothing other than to report a terrible crime perpetrated on a migrant worker.
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>Please understand that what take you ten seconds to read and understand, may take me ten minutes, and still I may misunderstand. So flooding me and other people who doesn't have English as their first language with information, may often only add to the confusion. I would prefer if you simply cut-and-pasted what you find important, and add the URL as a reference. I hope that wish makes sense.
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>Having said that, I have taken 24 hours off to take care of two of my grandchildren who has stayed in our house since yesterday. But my head has kept spinning, and I realize that I have asked the wrong question, and put me against the wall defending something which I did not mean in the way it was written. I should have asked "Would this have happened anyway, or did this happen because of religious reasons?".

I truly admire those of you who are regulars here speaking in not their first language. Your English is fine, completely understandable. If you get a word wrong here and there (I am not saying you do), don't sweat it.

Grandchildren, wow. I hope mine are still a few years away ;-)