Saudi "Elections"

While I guess it is a slight step forward to have some type of elections in Saudi Arabia, I definitely find it disturbing that women were not allowed to take part in the vote. I have read that there were quite a few women candidates that had been barred from running. Carmen Bin Ladin recently wrote a book about her life in Saudi Arabia, and her divorce from Osama's older brother because of the degradation of women by Islamic fundamentalists In Saudi Arabia. The book is titled, "Inside the Kingdom : My Life in Saudi Arabia" in the U.S. and "The Veiled Kingdom" in the U.K. I have not read it personally, but I plan on adding it to my list. I know of a couple of women who had similar problems when they had married Pakistanis, and had tried living there.