War Propaganda and Women’s Rights: The Arab Emirates (UAE) Exploit First Woman Pilot to Lead the Bombing Campaign Against ISIS | Geopolitics | News, Opinions & Analysis that Matters
Women’s rights in the Gulf States are hideous regardless of the UAE’s
actions it has taken to involve women in their military ranks. The
mainstream media in the West is quick to jump on the women’s rights
issue in the Gulf; they even praised Saudi Arabia for sending members of
the Royal family to battle. The Week, a British news magazine published
a story called “Why the West should applaud these autocratic kingdoms
with dubious human rights records” by Peter Weber. The subtitle read
“Saudi Arabia is sending its princes to fight ISIS. UAE is sending
women. The Persian Gulf kingdoms are in this battle now, come hell or
high water.” Weber does admit that Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf
states which have some of the worst human rights violations have been
both directly and indirectly involved in the creation of ISIS
