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Saudi ban on women driving unrelated to Islam: Press TV online debate
2014-10-26
[Iran Press TV] Followers of Press TV's Facebook page have censured Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's ban on female driving as unfair, arguing that Islam has not introduced any such restrictions.

Comments posted on the channel's Facebook page in response to a question about Saudi Arabia's decades-old ban on women getting behind the wheel showed that the ban has no standing in Islam with respondents noting that Saudi Arabia should lift the ban on women's driving.

"Yes, it's a joke. Nowhere in the Koran is this referenced. They can't use that one," a comment read, while another respondent said, "I don't get this. Why they wouldn't allow women to drive. Islam is not forbidding anyone to drive. Saudi Arabia does."

Another comment read, "Where in the Koran does it say that a woman cannot drive a car? ... I respect every Moslem who lives according to the Koran and let others live. I despise each has a misogynistic view."

"Why should women not be allowed to drive a car in Saudi Arabia? This is a country that allows female singers to perform at weddings! Which one is more evil: driving a car or singing at parties? Saudi Arabia is drifting away from pristine Islam! Dangerous!" another respondent noted.

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry warned in a statement released on October 23 against any move flouting the kingdom's controversial ban on female driving.

The warning came against the backdrop of a renewed right-to-drive campaign against the ban.

Several women took the wheel last year on October 26 in defiance of the driving ban in the kingdom.

More than 2,700 people have already signed an online petition to support women's driving rights in the Arab country.
Posted by:Fred

#1  hmmm restriction of the rights of women seems to follow saudi funding of islamist fascism round the globe eg to somalia
Posted by: anon1   2014-10-26 10:44  

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