The bar for the Muslim world is so low, the low expectation of soft bigotry. Yes, it is good that women can drive. But let’s not pretend they are not chattel or that the status of women under the sharia is nothing less than abominable.
While assailing President Trump on women’s rights (what specifically, they never say), the NY Times and other Western media outlets are heralding this news but ignoring the fact that women still can’t leave the house without a male guardian. Or that a woman needs a male guardian (mahram) whose permission must be granted for travel, medical procedures, obtaining permits. A woman’s guardian arranges her marriage. The system of guardianship is widely abused for economic and social reasons. In 2008, for example, a Muslim father married his eight-year-old daughter off to a 47-year-old man.
Saudi activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider said here:
The ownership of a woman is passed from one man to another. Ownership of the woman is passed from the father or the brother to another man, the husband. The woman is merely a piece of merchandise, which is passed over to someone else—her guardian …
Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive
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Merciful alice, what ever will become of islamic society if women can drive? What next, allow them to vote? Horrors, treat women like they are human? What would mutgonad, police beat upon him, say?
Voting isn’t a problem for anyone in the Soddy Barbarian monarchy — or most muslum states for that matter.
Imagine the mullah’s relief, the qur’an is not being violated by decency or equality.
Even in muslum “republics” voting is as much an exercise in futility as it was in the USSR — you can vote for anyone, as long as it’s one of our pre-selected muslum candidates!
With islam being the perfect word of alice the demon, no more decision need be made, only the word of hell enforced.
Saudi King says women can drive. Now if they can just get their husband’s and/or father’s permission…. a woman is the property of a man all her life.
What happens if a woman is caught driving with a man not her husband or immediate family member? Does she lose her driver’s license in addition to going to jail?
I saw this wonderful comment on the Daily Wail, “As a lesbian, you can now drive yourself to your own stoning”.
Ah, the wonders of the “modern age”.
There is also an exotic dance joint in Riyad! The strippers show full face nudity! Daring, isn’t it?
Take a good look of the picture in this article! Would you allow a visually impaired woman like that to drivet? I wouldn’t.
Not until they are allowed to take off their potato bags form their heads.
Once they will kill a few people the driving ban will be back.
Well, at least it’s a start! Not really much of one though! With the new law–women have be be at least 30 yrs old and driving is limited to certain times of the day! All I can say is that anything in that country not going in reverse, is going in the right direction!