Women’s march organizer Linda Sarsour says Saudi Arabia’s treatment of women “puts us to shame”

Linda Sarsour organized the recent women’s march.

Below is a screen capture of a tweet that she made, which says the following:

“10 weeks of PAID maternity leave in Saudi Arabia. Yes PAID. And ur worrying about women driving. Puts us to shame.”

 

And this woman is a role model for millions of U.S. women?

In my opinion, that’s pretty scary.

She also made this tweet, which says

“shariah law is reasonable and once u read into the details it makes a lot of sense. People just know the basics”

and this tweet, which says

“You’ll know when you’re living under Sharia Law if suddenly all your loans & credit cards become interest free. Sound nice, doesn’t it?”

and this tweet, which says

“If you are still paying interest than Sharia Law hasn’t taken over America.”

So there you have it. Millions of U.S. women support a woman who wants the U.S. to adopt a legal system that bans women from driving cars, prohibits women from appearing alone in public, calls for girls to have their genitals mutilated, and gives a woman’s testimony in court only half the value of a man’s.

Of course, immigration patterns prove that women overwhelmingly prefer living in the U.S. over Saudi Arabia. I’ve never heard of any woman who was born in the U.S. who chose to permanently move to Saudi Arabia. But I have heard of plenty of women who were born in Saudi Arabia who chose to permanently move to the U.S.

Sarsour herself was born in Brooklyn. I’m glad she was born in the U.S., because she has far more rights and freedoms here than she would in Saudi Arabia. It’s too bad that she mistakenly thinks that women women are better off in Saudi Arabia than in the U.S. I hope she will reconsider her position.