Violations against women in the Middle East have gone on for too long, they have been denied the attention and concern of international organizations, national governments, and the press. For whatever reasons the lack of human rights for women has just been accepted. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of Muslim girls and women continue to endure devastating and often fatal human rights abuses. Yet, more and more people do not want to get involved because they either feel this is a family issue or the Middle East problem. The violation of woman's rights is nor an issue or a problem, it is a tragedy that we must see as all of ours. As a free rights country, we must help to educate the Middle East of their misdoing in order to conserve our own. Human rights violations against women must be documented, publicized and stopped.

The country of Iran declared that men are legally permitted to kill their wives if they are unfaithful, which leads to woman being killed when their spouses are only suspicious (Goodwin 114). This statement holds true in all Islamic countries. Women are even murdered if they have been raped. As in the case of a disabled sixteen-year-old girl in Saudi Arab

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om). With devastation maltreatment coming from all aspects of life, it is easy to see why woman conform to the way things are. When their own religion-based government is telling them that their sole purpose is to serve the men around her, as she is but a servant. There seems to be nowhere to turn to for these woman, everything is against them and in favor of men.

In Islamic culture, woman must wear strict hijab attire at all times or else pay the consequences. In Islamic countries woman are getting beaten in streets for not wearing proper dress, simply for exposing their ankles or a strand of hair"(www.amnesty.com). According to former president Rafsanjani, "it is the obligation of the female to cover her head because woman's hair exudes vibrations that arouse, mislead, and corrupt men" (Goodwin 107). Women have been so deeply degraded they are no longer looked at as people; they are just looked at as objects, and have to obey their masters (husbands) as they are told. Men's sexual needs are considered so urgent that it is better for food to burn in the oven than a man to burn in waiting for his wife to satisfy his desire. If she

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