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Should Women Be Allowed To Go Out Alone Essay

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Many people know that women in Saudi Arabia don’t have as many rights as women in other countries. For example, they’re not allowed to drive, go out alone, go out with out covering themselves or interact with men who aren’t related to them. Women in Saudi Arabia should be allowed to go out alone because in many cases there has been an emergency, and the women has not been allowed to leave the house because a man wasn’t there. This essay is going to focus on Saudi Arabian women’s rights to go out alone with out a mahram who is a male guardian.
The law that women are not allowed to go out alone was put together in the past. We can assume that it is apart of the Sharia Law, because Saudi Arabia enforces one of the strictest understanding of the …show more content…

The Quran doesn’t actually prevent a woman, from leaving her house alone, but according to the Islamic law, if a woman leaves the house alone she is suspected of prostitution or of being with another man that isn’t her husband or related to her. The law that women in Saudi Arabia aren’t allowed to go out alone has been effecting women for hundreds of years.

There are some reasons a woman should not be allowed to go out alone. A lot of men, Islamic clerics and even some women think that women shouldn’t be allowed to go out alone. In one case a teenage girl known as the Qatif girl. was in a car with her old high school when two men came and drove them to a secluded are where she was gang-raped by seven men. The judge said that this wouldn’t have happened if she was with a male relative, which led to her getting more lashes than one of her rapists received. Certain people would agree that it was okay for her to be punished for going out with out a male relative, since it is against the law, but she shouldn’t have been given any lashes because she had just been through something horrible. The girl who was raped appeared in an interview for ABC News, said “One of the men brought a knife to my throat. They told me not to speak. They pushed us to the back of the car and started driving. We

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