Stas Mureyko

After listening to the first chapter and a bit of the second, the desperation to appeal to Western listeners and her clear influence by western thought becomes apparent rather quickly. This was displayed when she mentioned that in Saudi, any form of touch between men and women is "taboo" when in fact it is clearly a religious prohibition that I would assume she would be aware of or perhaps not. Her praise and implicit admiration for Western values being present in certain areas of Saudi is sickening given the fact that they only weaken cultural and religious identification. Overall, I was expecting a more liberal and watered-down presentation of this Saudi woman's perception of Islam and Islamic behaviour, and at the end of the day, this was her experience and I sympathize with her given her extremely negative, and at times, traumatic experiences.