Nice story! Didn't think sport has that much influence! I always thought, that this process is going to start somewhen. You could see the liberalization process of the turkish women in Germany about 20 to 15 years ago. My best friend is turkish, so I got good insights. When I was a child, turkish women all dressed like here in the gulf, meanwhile they are dressing totally western style. Of course, the impact of a western culture is much stronger in GErmany, but this shows, that the contacts between cultures leed to liberalization, although I have to say, that not everything, which comes from the west is good and shall be adapted by the arab people. they have their own culture and they should never forget about that. Unfortunately some westerners always forget, that the colonization age is over and bringing civilization to the world's wild people is a bad habit.

The West should just not use itself as the reference or synonym for civilization. Though shouldn't the arabs.

It's just the U.S. that can claim to be in the position to bring freedom to the world, no matter whether the people want or not! ;)

Sorry all Americans, but I couldn't resist!;)