Why one never hears about Saudi Arabia. American businesses go extra mile in permitting bad policies

[ck4829]

Colbert I. King quotes an American official who accuses Western companies of complicity in Saudi Arabia's sexual apartheid:

One of the (still) untold stories, however, is the cooperation of U.S. and other Western companies in enforcing sexual apartheid in Saudi Arabia. McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, and other U.S. firms, for instance, maintain strictly segregated eating zones in their restaurants. The men's sections are typically lavish, comfortable and up to Western standards, whereas the women's or families' sections are often run-down, neglected and, in the case of Starbucks, have no seats. Worse, these firms will bar entrance to Western women who show up without their husbands. My wife and other (U.S. government affiliated) women were regularly forbidden entrance to the local McDonald's unless there was a man with them."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_segregation_in_Islam#Saudi_Arabia

Pretty interesting to know our companies are over there, helping to enforce stone age laws, here's to hoping that Obama can do something about it as President.

[Taverner]

1. Fuck Saudi Arabia

Once we stop needing oil

We will stop needing them

And they can go back to the stone age for all I fucking care

We should make them and their backward culture into a zoo

[tbyg52]

2. Of course they are complicit. What's human rights compared to money? nt