America’s tolerating the Arab World gypping women
by Jordan Cooper
The worst country for women in the Arab World is Egypt based on studies by non-profit think tanks.
Nope, it isn’t Jordan where women have no protection from domestic violence or ‘honor killings’ under positive law. It isn’t Saudi Arabia where male relatives still have guardianship authority over female relatives. It isn’t the UAE where females can be jailed for stepping out on their spouses. And it isn’t a handful of other countries in the Arab World where women have to cover themselves in the appropriate garb.
Egypt is filled with sexual harassment ,genital mutilation, and the spread of conservative Islamic groups of women according to a British Broadcasting Corporation article. Women in the Arab World don’t have the rights that females have in the United States. They can get beat up by significant others in their homes and not get the suspects won’t get punished. They can’t choose their careers without male approval in some countries and extramarital/premarital sensual encounters are not legalized.
So, if you were planning on being on a daytime soap opera in a free country like the United States those days are squashed. Almost every person growing up has dreams of being on TV, in a magazine, or on the radio. This simply can’t happen in a lot of countries in the Arab World.
Studies say people talk to themselves at least 12,000 times today in general.
It has to be very painful to know people can say to themselves that they’re smart and beautiful — but cannot see a true reflection of this when they live their daily lives because of their governments. America has liberated some countries in the Arab World during the last generation but women are still marginalized like some notebook paper overseas.
Jordan Thomas Cooper is a 2015 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a degree in History and a 2010 graduate of the RealEstate School of Success in Irmo. He is the first African-American to serve in both the governor and lieutenant governor’s office as an aide and first to serve in the Inspector General’s Office in S.C. (Haley) He is also the first person to serve in the top three offices in the gubernatorial line of succession in South Carolina (Haley, Bauer, McConnell). He says research shows he is the second black presidential campaign speechwriter in American history and the first for a GOP presidential campaign (Bush 2015). He also played football for Coach Steve Spurrier.
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