Re: Saudi women had more rights at the time of the Romans than today

In article 
<ddee895b-7d9f-4a27-be94-0df947f839d6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Sir John Howard <sirjohnhoward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12154&size=A
> 
> This is shown by a book written by a female scholar and published in
> Great Britain. At that time, they are able to run businesses; while
> today, at a discussion of work for women in Riyadh, all of the women
> were in another room.
> 
> Riyadh (AsiaNews) - Arab women had more rights at the time of the
> Romans than they have today.

And anyone should be surprised at this, why?  Western civilizations are 
clearly more progressive than eastern towelheads, even 2000 year ago.