This refers to the July 25 article “Managed marriages: Women empowerment and social justice” by Dr. Khaled Batarfi. Under the current laws, if a Saudi woman should marry a foreigner, her life will be made miserable. I know that the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah is advocating women empowerment. I request that he grant our children Saudi nationality. Saudi Arabia is their motherland and they should have the same rights as the children from a Saudi father and a foreign mother — what is the difference?!” Saudi mother, By email II I am a Pakistani-British man who has recently married a Saudi and expecting our first child. It seems the Shoura Council and Saudi society are discussing now the issue of mixed-marriages. May I remind them of this quote from the Holy Qur'an: “We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another.” Ramon Mohamed, By email III You do not need a revolution. You need to go back to Islam. Racism and tribalism do not represent Islam. Do oppressed Gulf women defend the rights of poor hapless foreign maids? Hopefully, they themselves are not engaged in oppressing others. Otherwise, the oppression may just be a payback. John McDonalds, By email
