Saudi women rev up right-to-drive campaign

[Sally]

I hope they have some success this time.

Saudi women rev up right-to-drive campaign
Oct 10, 2014 |

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Initiative with 2,400 signatures to culminate on Oct. 24

Activists in Saudi Arabia are revving up a right-to-drive campaign using social media in the world’s only country that bans women from getting behind the wheel, a campaigner said on Thursday. An online petition asking the Saudi government to “lift the ban on women driving” has attracted more than 2,400 signatures ahead of the campaign’s culmination on October 26.

Activists are also encouraging to women to post pictures of themselves driving using a Twitter hashtag, as well as on Instagram and YouTube.

“We are trying to do something to refresh this demand” that women be allowed to drive, one activist, Nasima al-Sada, said.

“It doesn’t stop,” she said of the national campaign.

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[Sunni Man]

She is a criminal. ...

 

[aris2chat]

She is a criminal. ...

There were no cars during the time of Mohammed. Quran could not make driving a car a crime.
Mohammed's wives drove camels, why should modern women not drive cars in Saudi?

 

[TheOldSchool]

War on Islam!!! Those women are infringing on their husband's religious beliefs!!!

 

[Sunni Man]

She is a criminal. ...

There were no cars during the time of Mohammed. Quran could not make driving a car a crime.
Mohammed's wives drove camels, why should modern women not drive cars in Saudi?

She is a criminal according to Saudi law.

It has nothing to do with Islam or the Quran. ...