Let's Rescue the Heroes: Free Asma'a al-Ghoul

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
July 20, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/590/rescue-the-heroes-asmaa-al-ghoul

Excerpt:

Today, Britain granted political asylum to a married Saudi princess who had an out-of-wedlock child with a non-Muslim British man. The unnamed princess, married to a much older man, feared that she would be honor murdered, probably stoned to death, back home in the Kingdom.

I recall the 1978 fate of another Saudi Princess, Misha, who dared to fall in love with a commoner. They married secretly, she disguised herself as a man, and was about to flee the country when they were both apprehended; both husband and wife were publicly and gruesomely executed. Two thousands Saudi princesses were forced to watch this sickening spectacle.

Neither Saudi princess was a fighter for others. Each sought personal happiness which, as women, was utterly denied to them. They were—and are—desperate rebels, perhaps even tragic role models.

President Obama has recently promised to allow " battered" women from other countries to apply for political asylum here. If so, I previously wrote, we will soon find ourselves flooded with such applications.

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