Raymond says, "and the US government wants to double the number of Saudi students in the country."

Submitted by GWK (United States), Apr 15, 2008 at 21:56

Raymond, you said. "and the US government wants to double the number of Saudi students in the country."

I meant to discuss this with Admiral Ryan, who once was Chancellor of the SUNY system, and hope he will pass it along to other university leaders: IF the USA is serious about its values, then it must carefully look at what visas it gives to Saudis and other muslims. These repressive societies cannot be allowed to perpetuate their repression through US student visas. INSTEAD, the ratio of visas to Saudi and other Muslim-dominated countries ought to EMPOWER the women of those countries. Therefore the ratio of visas to women to men from such repressive countries ought to be 2:1 or greater. The only way of breaking the cycle of female repression and male domination in Saudi Arabia is to get more and more of Saudi Arabia's women into the Western world to see another way of life and to decide whether they prefer repression and subjugation, or the freedom and opportunity of the Western way of the world.

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