Protests Spark over Taliban Flogging Of Teenage Girl

Synopsis
Sultana is a Saudi Arabian princess, a woman born to fabulous, uncountable wealth. She has four mansions on three continents, her own private jet, glittering jewels, designer dresses galore. But in reality she lives in a gilded cage. She has no freedom, no vote, no control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Hidden behind her black floor-length veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, her sons, and her country. Sultana is a member of the Saudi royal family, closely related to the king. For the sake of her daughters, she has decided to take the risk of speaking out about the life of women in her country, regardless of their rank. She must hide her identity for fear that the religious leaders in her country would call for her death to punish her honesty. Only a woman in her position could possibly hope to escape from being revealed and punished, despite her cloak of anonymity. She tells of her own life, from her turbulent childhood to her arranged marriage - a happy one until her husband decided to displace her by taking a second wife - and of the lives of her sisters, her friends, and her servants. Although they share affection, confidences and an easy camaraderie within the confines of the women's quarters, they also share a history of appalling oppressions, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations: thirteen-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age, young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the "woman's room," a padded, windowless cell where women are confined with neither light nor conversation until death claims them. Servants are forced into sexual servitude and severely beaten if they attempt escape. By speaking out, Sultana risks bringing the wrath of the Saudi establishment upon her head and the heads of her children. In the barren, hopeless wasteland that is the life of Saudi women today, free speech is punishable by death.
Annotation
A true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia, Princess delivers a gripping account of the horrors and degradations suffered by actual modern-day Saudi women. "Absolutely riveting."--People. Presented by the bestselling author of The Rape of Kuwait. Photos.

Yes, they have dreadful practices. Women don't fare well in Islam.

One of the Kings in Saudi Arabia shot had his grand-daughter shot because she tried to elope with a Lebanese young man when she fond herself pregnant. The movie DEATH OF A PRINCESS caused the British ambassador to be slung out of Saudi Arabia unceremoniously because of the movie being produced in Britain. The Arabs came for the Summer and the Egyptians in London made lots of money selling pirated copies of the film(copied from TV. )
I know that there is a book....a true story....about two young girls who had boyfriends.............the rich man married his daughter off to a Bedouin and sent her into the desert to live, and the other man drowned his daughter in the pool with all the family gathered to witness it.

If you read Jean Sassoon's first bestseller PRINCESS it will let you see how their system is.

The men can play around and cheat all they want.............a womans honor makes or shames the
family in some societies....................in Saudi, and in India and Pakistan. IT is the women who suffer.............most are married off to their first cousins, usually in a deal made between the mothers when their children are small. Little Sultan grows up knowing he will marry little Leyla...................so he has pleasure with many women but mates with Leyla to produce sons.