A lot of our current culture is demonizing people we don't like, getting them fired, etc. I read about a person who's someone to aspire to instead of worth tearing down and wanted to share. It's a two page article so I'll include only a few paragraphs that describe her best.: National Review 1/25/01 A Saudi Woman, PP. 22-23 "We are speaking of Loujain al-Hathloul, one of the most prominent political prisoners in Saudi Arabia. she was judged guilty in a notorious "special court," ostensibly reserved for terrorists and other dangerous characters. She was sentenced to five years and eight months. What did she do? She campaigned for human rights, and, specifically, women’s rights: the right to live independently; the right to have legal recourse in the case of domestic abuse; the right to drive a car. She knew the risks she was taking in campaigning for these simple rights. She had no “need” to do it, because she was living a perfectly fine life as it was. But she felt compelled to do it. According to her family, and others who know her, she has a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense of patriotism. In short, she wanted her country to be freer and more just." . . . "In December 2014, Loujain did something daring. She had obtained a driver’s license from the United Arab Emirates. The UAE is part of the Gulf Cooperation Council, as is Saudi Arabia. One of the rules of the GCC says, if you have a driver’s license from one country, it is valid in another country. Testing this, Loujain tried to drive from the UAE into Saudi Arabia. She was arrested by Saudi agents at the border — and imprisoned for 73 days. During this imprisonment, no harm came to her. To put it bluntly: She was not tortured. Jump to 2018. Loujain was a graduate student in the UAE, studying for a master’s in sociology on the Abu Dhabi campus of the Sorbonne. On March 13, she was driving on a highway when she was pulled over and, essentially, kidnapped. Saudi agents put her on a private jet and transported her back to her home country. She was detained for two nights, released on the 15th. When they released her, they put her on a travel ban and gave her a warning: Stay absolutely quiet." The rest of the article goes further on how the government terrorized her and told her to shut up, and how she absolutely refused to capitulate. Just incredible.
