Bottom line;

Saudi Arabia won’t get changed by outside influences. Just as introducing democracy to a thousand year-old Islamic pissing contest in Iraq didn’t stop people from trying to cut the throats of their political opposition.

We could use an economic carrot to try to affect change there, or a military one, but it won’t change anything.

The Islamic world has to change from within. Plain and simple. In order for a culture to stand on it’s own or to grow and thrive, the equal treatment and education of women is absolutely necessary. The only true test of any chance for reform in Shari’a countries is for them to stand on their own without outside aid or support; militarily financial, or even humanitarian. I’m not suggesting we do that, but the fact remains- that’s the only test for change for the truly Islamic world.