Imagine a country in which half of its population is not allowed to vote, not allowed to drive, not even allowed to leave home without permission. Imagine a country in which half of its population has basically no independence or freedom. Such a country would be terrible place of oppression, and one wouldn’t expect the United States of America, a nation that prides itself in justice and liberty, to have any relations with such a place.
The law does not protect women in Jordan from honor killings, when a women’s brother or father can murder her if she has sexual relations outside of marriage. In Iran, women are very limited in terms of career choices. The Palestinian Authority encourages women to become suicide bombers like Hanadi Jaradat, who blew up in a caf
