Woman defies driving ban in Saudi Arabia

[Connery]

This is one step closer to forcing the rights for some to be granted for all.

"An unidentified female defied Saudi Arabia's ban on driving by hopping behind the wheel. A video of her journey was posted by popular blogger Eman al-Nafjan.

The woman can be seen driving on a relatively busy highway. When other motorists pass her on the left, they give her a thumbs-up in support.

Al-Nafjan spoke with CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom about the drive. Jamjoom wrote that al-Nafjan described other drivers' reactions as "fantastic" and went "beyond acceptance."

Woman defies driving ban in Saudi Arabia; gets support from fellow drivers

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Further, Women members of Saudi Shoura Council challenge driving ban

"Women members of Saudi Arabia's influential Shoura Council which advises King Abdullah have proposed allowing women to drive, challenging a tradition upheld by the deeply conservative clerical establishment.

The council is the nearest the kingdom has to a parliament, though its members are not elected but appointed by the king and cannot make laws but only issue recommendations. However, these recommendations have often in the past prefigured Saudi reforms.

Conservative Saudis say letting women drive would encourage the sexes to mix in public unchaperoned and thus threaten public morality, but it is an important demand of many women who now rely on expensive private drivers to perform basic daily tasks."

Women members of Saudi Shoura Council challenge driving ban


Custom should not supersede law.

 

[Nox]

Crazy wahhabis why they dont allow women to drive .

 

[Lipush]

This is one step closer to forcing the rights for some to be granted for all.

"An unidentified female defied Saudi Arabia's ban on driving by hopping behind the wheel. A video of her journey was posted by popular blogger Eman al-Nafjan.

The woman can be seen driving on a relatively busy highway. When other motorists pass her on the left, they give her a thumbs-up in support.

Al-Nafjan spoke with CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom about the drive. Jamjoom wrote that al-Nafjan described other drivers' reactions as "fantastic" and went "beyond acceptance."

Woman defies driving ban in Saudi Arabia; gets support from fellow drivers

Suadi Woman defies driving ban VIDEO

Further, Women members of Saudi Shoura Council challenge driving ban

"Women members of Saudi Arabia's influential Shoura Council which advises King Abdullah have proposed allowing women to drive, challenging a tradition upheld by the deeply conservative clerical establishment.

The council is the nearest the kingdom has to a parliament, though its members are not elected but appointed by the king and cannot make laws but only issue recommendations. However, these recommendations have often in the past prefigured Saudi reforms.

Conservative Saudis say letting women drive would encourage the sexes to mix in public unchaperoned and thus threaten public morality, but it is an important demand of many women who now rely on expensive private drivers to perform basic daily tasks."

Women members of Saudi Shoura Council challenge driving ban


Custom should not supersede law.

Nice to see that the men driving by are supportive of her.

Sad that she fears to identify herself because of the law. But she's very brave.

Hopefully the laws there change soon.

 

[rightwinger]

Which is more appropriate?

Stoning or caning?

 

[Connery]

This is one step closer to forcing the rights for some to be granted for all.

"An unidentified female defied Saudi Arabia's ban on driving by hopping behind the wheel. A video of her journey was posted by popular blogger Eman al-Nafjan.

The woman can be seen driving on a relatively busy highway. When other motorists pass her on the left, they give her a thumbs-up in support.

Al-Nafjan spoke with CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom about the drive. Jamjoom wrote that al-Nafjan described other drivers' reactions as "fantastic" and went "beyond acceptance."

Woman defies driving ban in Saudi Arabia; gets support from fellow drivers

Suadi Woman defies driving ban VIDEO

Further, Women members of Saudi Shoura Council challenge driving ban

"Women members of Saudi Arabia's influential Shoura Council which advises King Abdullah have proposed allowing women to drive, challenging a tradition upheld by the deeply conservative clerical establishment.

The council is the nearest the kingdom has to a parliament, though its members are not elected but appointed by the king and cannot make laws but only issue recommendations. However, these recommendations have often in the past prefigured Saudi reforms.

Conservative Saudis say letting women drive would encourage the sexes to mix in public unchaperoned and thus threaten public morality, but it is an important demand of many women who now rely on expensive private drivers to perform basic daily tasks."

Women members of Saudi Shoura Council challenge driving ban


Custom should not supersede law.

Nice to see that the men driving by are supportive of her.

Sad that she fears to identify herself because of the law. But she's very brave.

Hopefully the laws there change soon.

It is very empowering for these women to see this kind of support. Oppressive measures cannot last forever, human nature will not allow it. Nothing can crush the human spirit.

 

[Sunni Man]

Which is more appropriate?

Stoning or caning?

For breaking this law she would get a caning. .

 

[Nox]

Which is more appropriate?

Stoning or caning?

For breaking this law she would get a caning. .

LoL beating without a trace : )

 

[Connery]

Which is more appropriate?

Stoning or caning?

For breaking this law she would get a caning. .

If so how does this figure in the equation?

"Religious leaders no longer argue, as some have in the past, that women are not allowed to drive under Islamic Sharia law. Opponents of change instead cite fears about public morality.

Last month the head of the powerful morality police, Sheikh Abdulatif Al al-Sheikh, told Reuters there was no text in Sharia that forbade women from driving."

Women members of Saudi Shoura Council challenge driving ban

 

[Sunni Man]

Not allowing women to drive in Saudia Arabia is totally cultural and has zero to do with Islam.

That being said, it's their country and culture.

So if they decide that women aren't allowed to drive.

That's their business and no one else's. ..

 

[Hollie]

Crazy wahhabis why they dont allow women to drive .

It's the same attitudes and religious perspectives that compels the sunni/salafi/wabbahi, etc. to keep women wrapped in their shame sacks.

 

[Sunni Man]

..............................................^^ My stalker Hollie shows up as usual. .

 

[Nox]

Crazy wahhabis why they dont allow women to drive .

It's the same attitudes and religious perspectives that compels the sunni/salafi/wabbahi, etc. to keep women wrapped in their shame sacks.

Why , I live in a sunni country (religious government) and women drive cars , not necessarily cover their heads , working together men in same jobs etc . This is completely personal choices of governments . These are not Islamic rules : ) but maybe someone will say there were such an hadith but goats had eaten it and we found the goat shit fossil and there is written that women cannot drive cars in the future

 

[Connery]

Not allowing women to drive in Saudia Arabia is totally cultural and has zero to do with Islam.

That being said, it's their country and culture.

So if they decide that women aren't allowed to drive.

That's their business and no one else's. ..

Try again, Sunni Man..."Under Saudi Arabia's rigid Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam, women fall under the legal authority of a male relative, known as their "guardian", who can stop them travelling abroad, getting a job or opening a bank account."...

 

[Hollie]

Crazy wahhabis why they dont allow women to drive .

It's the same attitudes and religious perspectives that compels the sunni/salafi/wabbahi, etc. to keep women wrapped in their shame sacks.

Why , I live in a sunni country (religious government) and women drive cars , not necessarily cover their heads , working together men in same jobs etc . This is completely personal choices of governments . These are not Islamic rules : ) but maybe someone will say there were such an hadith but goats had eaten it and we found the goat shit fossil and there is written that women cannot drive cars in the future

I suppose you can consider yourself fortunate that due to parentage/happenstance, you were not raised in the islamist Middle East.

The mistreatment of women has been shared by all cultures and religions. But nowhere on the planet do we see such systematic denigration of women as in Moslem societies.

 

[Sunni Man]

Not allowing women to drive in Saudia Arabia is totally cultural and has zero to do with Islam.

That being said, it's their country and culture.

So if they decide that women aren't allowed to drive.

That's their business and no one else's. ..

Try again, Sunni Man..."Under Saudi Arabia's rigid Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam, women fall under the legal authority of a male relative, known as their "guardian", who can stop them travelling abroad, getting a job or opening a bank account."...

I was only addressing the Saudi's ban on women drivers.

Again, it is totally cultural and have zero to do with Islam. .

 

[Sunni Man]

Sunni, your support of women as chattel is disgusting. With an attitude like that, how do you expect us normal people to have any sympathy for Arabs/Muslims?

First of all, I am not an Arab.

Secondly, I am not looking for 'sympathy'. .

 

[Nox]

I suppose you can consider yourself fortunate that due to parentage/happenstance, you were not raised in the islamist Middle East.

The mistreatment of women has been shared by all cultures and religions. But nowhere on the planet do we see such systematic denigration of women as in Moslem societies.

This is not about islam , this is based on up to pre-islam , and as you said this is in all cultures . The reason for this is not religious or cultural things , this is just nature of human . You will feel superior when you see a physically and emotional weak person in front of you and you will behave in this way , like it or dont like , your thoughts and feelings will be reflected in your movements . No one can deny it .

 

[Sunni Man]

Then empathy, support... Whatever. I say sympathy because I feel sorry for Muslims, they're so backwards and can't enjoy what the world has to offer...
Arab or not, you're supporting treating women like chattel, so fuck you, you're lower then a dog turd.

I had you figured out as an Islamphobe from the get-go.

Thanks for proving me right. .......

 

[Hollie]

I suppose you can consider yourself fortunate that due to parentage/happenstance, you were not raised in the islamist Middle East.

The mistreatment of women has been shared by all cultures and religions. But nowhere on the planet do we see such systematic denigration of women as in Moslem societies.

This is not about islam , this is based on up to pre-islam , and as you said this is in all cultures . The reason for this is not religious or cultural things , this is just nature of human . You will feel superior when you see a physically and emotional weak person in front of you and you will behave in this way , like it or dont like , your thoughts and feelings will be reflected in your movements . No one can deny it .

Of course it's about Islam. It's about a political-religious ideology that has never been able to claw its way out of the 7th century.

The problem is clear...Islam is a "way of life" that completely contradicts the freedoms we in the infidel West enjoy and protect. I see little rising up of so-called "moderate" Moslems to police their own.....even when the extremists would do harm, wreak havoc, and support oppression against other Moslems. There is no real voice of opposition...so in a very real sense, it DOES come down to a basic life philosophy. It is one of violence and oppression.

 

[Sunni Man]

...........................................................^^^ Broken record .