Do you, a free person, see Muslim females as slaves?

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It isn't that simple. I believe woman should be allowed to drive, vote and get education... but how – as foreigners – can we change the laws of a country without disrespecting its sovereignty? How can we be sure that this influence won't affect another fields, in a not so positive light? Where we draw this line of influence? It isn't just allowing woman to do things, it needs to change much more deep roots that will cause a lot of instability for their society.

I believe we should act somehow that empowers this woman but we can't patronize them with this discourse we – the free people – are here free you. In our definition of freedom, in our cultural term. It isn't really freedom. And I say again: we aren't exactly free.

The irony is that Saudi Arabia was re-elected to the U.N Human Right Council back in 2016.

That right there is proof positive that the U.N. is a total joke, we should not empower or give a platform to these tin-pot dictators.

I heard that the reason Saudi Arabia won is because they had no competition.

I think we can export ideas instead of people. We can allow people from these countries especially young people on visits to the United States. For example we can allow young people from Saudi Arabia to study here. They can take some of the ideas back to there countries.

They would get cruel punishments if they did.

I hate to admit it, but you are right. Big movements often involve sufferings.

This is a real good idea. If you lead the action to the local people they can filter better what work or not for them. What I disagree is direct action controlled by outsiders.

That is what I like about my plan. People expand their knowledge of the world. The idas we have can go to them and other countries.

Look I don't think Yo El was saying something uninformed. Mike Huckabee said a similar thing in that abortion violated the 15th amendment. It is just how you interpret things. But heck I am 16 so maybe I don't know.

Yes, for the Muslim women living under the real Sharia like KSA and Afghanistan, they are slaves even against their will.

But here the thing:
Most Muslims live in denial, and most Muslims living in non-Sharia countries (hint: most muslim-dominated countries) believe in an embellished version of Islam. In particular most Muslim women believe in a very very embellished version of Islam while they they ignore or turn a blind eye on the verses that clearly diminish their status, maybe they only read embellished narratives and never read the Qur'an fully. The Arabic dialect of Qur'an is an old tribe-specific, and it's not exactly the same as the Classic Arabic, it's somehow like Old English to modern English - I would understand it better if I read its English or French translation than in its original language.

For example, the other day I was in an outing with classmates, and one of my christian classmates mentioned the polygamy in Islam, a muslim classmate, who is a Muslim young woman (not veiled and wears short skirts too which isn't uncommon here) answered by repeating a popular verse's interpretation how no ordinary man's love can be perfectly equal between two women, therefore he's not deemed for marrying more than one. In other term, she believes that Allah allows only monogamy for non-prophet men.
This is an extremely popular narrative I've heard from moderate and even conservative Muslim women who reject, despise and even mock the idea of polygamy hence why the concept is not popular in many muslim places except in the Arabia. (Less than 1% of Muslims in the world practice Polygamy, according to stats, at least it's the figure for the registered marriages)

In fact, women in these countries, like in Christian countries, are more likely to be more religious than men; and for some reason less likely to be agnostic/atheists (this is a world phenomena).

So no, these are not slaves, they just don't believe in the real Islam though like most Muslim men. They live on the blue pill.

The US exports its ideas and culture, along with those cultural elements and ideas it has adopted from other countries and peoples, on levels unmatched by any other nation, in the form of TV, movies, books, music, etc. They've already moved the mountain to Mohammed, so to speak.

How much access do you feel the Middle East has to become those?

Yes but there are also nations where they 'protect' their citizens from such things. North Korea for example, are there internet restrictions in Saudi Arabia?

If you mean how much access do they have to US media and culture, enough to know that it might be preferable to their own. The huge numbers of economic migrants to the West is sufficient evidence of that.

Not sure "slave" is a useful term, but people and particularly women in lots of highly theocratic Islamic societies are severely oppressed; describing them as "not slaves" would be damning with faint praise. The vast majority of Muslim women in non-Muslim countries, or more liberal Islamic countries, no, they're not remotely slavery.