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UN expert calls for end to Saudi ban on women driving
2017-01-20
[Iran Press TV] A United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
independent expert says the Saudi government should end its ban on women driving, urging the kingdom to do more to reform its male guardianship system.
"There -- that's sorted. I'm starving -- anyone else up for elevenses before we go to lunch?"
Philip Alston, an Australian legal expert who reports to the UN Human Rights Council, said after a 12-day visit to 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...
that the government in Riyadh was urgently required to cast aside rules and regulations that have hampered social life in the kingdom.

"So, I feel very strongly that the kingdom should move to enable women to drive cars," Alston said on Thursday.

The expert also called on Riyadh to make efforts to change the country’s guardianship system, which effectively hinders women's ability to work and travel. Alston said some features of the system, requiring that women obtain the consent of a male member of their family to study, travel and other activities, "need to be reformed."

"My concern is that the government is in fact deferring to a relatively small portion of conservative voices," Alston told a news conference, adding, "The role of the government is to work out how it can change the policy and how it can change attitudes."
Posted by:Fred

#3  Why is an Australian legal twit dictating to Saudi Arabia how they should like if they want?
If they want to live in the six century, let 'em.
Just make sure they stay there.
Posted by: ed in texas   2017-01-20 21:58  

#2  hahaha dying gasps of the globalist deceptacons

i've got a better idea. Why don't we just ban Muslim migration and ban Sharia.

prosecute those who promote sharia within our borders for treason.

close the islamic schools, and regulate the mosques.

treat Islam like communism in the 1950s

and then we don't have to care what backwards knuckledragging religitarded crap the do in saudi arabia. Boycott them. Don't buy their oil, and don't halal certify our food including exports. Who cares if they can't buy it. Sit in the sand and starve until they can evolve to the level of say 1890.
Posted by: anon1   2017-01-20 04:56  

#1  "My concern is that the government is in fact deferring to a relatively small portion of conservative voices," Alston told a news conference, adding, "The role of the government is to work out how it can change the policy and how it can change attitudes."

Uh, those aren't "conservative" voices. Those are "Islamic" voices. Those in favor of enabling women to drive in that country are also (unforuntately) Islamic voices. Any progress in treating women, men, and any other niche in that country will move at a snail's pace until *Islam* is called upon to reform (before it is eventually disgraced into the dust bin of history).
Posted by: Crusader   2017-01-20 00:12