Unne, you may say arab culture may look discriminative against women, specially in the whole making them wear a blanket (Or a veil, whatever it's called) over their head, or considering she must stay at home. My experience in arab countires is more or less extense, I even lived in Tunisia for two months, and I could aprreaciate women were not treated the same way as men, but they were allowed to work too, only the conservative sides had some problems in that. OK, so Tunisia is rather modern (Not more than Egypt, where women were allowed to vote in 1919) but as for conservative muslim countires, I do not believe something such as wife beating is condoned. Opression is, though. I remember in Egypt, all this saudi guys who went to the hotel with four women, all covered up in black, only showing the eyes. I found it horrible, really, so it feels good to see someone there fights against such opression and fundamnetalist puritanism.