{"id":10895,"date":"2012-03-14T20:25:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomtravel.se\/?p=10895"},"modified":"2025-11-30T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:00:16","slug":"boktips-resa-i-sharialand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravel.se\/en\/2012\/03\/boktips-resa-i-sharialand\/","title":{"rendered":"Book tip: Travelling in Sharialand by Tina Thunander"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-skribent-helena-bergstrom\">Writer: Helena Bergstr\u00f6m<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During my flu season I have been reading Tina Thunander's \"Travelling in Sharialand. A report on women's lives in Saudi Arabia\". Tina is quite lost when she lands in the kingdom, but is soon given a lesson in the state of affairs by the Ministry of Information's envoy.<\/p><div class=\"sharethis-buttons\"><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/twitter.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Tweet<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"facebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/facebook.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Share<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"linkedin\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/linkedin.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Share<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"pinterest\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/pinterest.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Pin<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"reddit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/reddit.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Share<\/span><\/div><div class=\"st-custom-button\" data-network=\"digg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/digg.svg\"><span class=\"label\">Share<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine that you and I are in the desert and it happens that you haven't covered your legs, and I happen to see them. Then I get - I'm sorry to say this - but I get horny. I can't help it, because that's the way men are made. That's why you should be covered. It's for your own safety<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-utifranperspektiv-men-anda-intressant\">Outside perspective, but still interesting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a book about a Muslim society, written by a Western woman. A clear outside perspective, but still interesting. Not least because Tina gets to visit a number of women's environments that are rarely reported on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it is not only Tina's voice that is heard, but above all those who are interviewed: the women at the university, the guest workers, the princes, the learned man who issues fatwas and the former Sharia judge. 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