>>>>>>>>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?".
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>I understand and I apologize for the links. It's easy to forget that English is not your primary language when you write it so well!

You beat me to it. Hats off to all the UT members who do not speak English as their primary language. Tore's English is a heck of a lot better than my Norwish ;-)