We don't want no stinking women drivers!

[zenith-nadir]

Saudis Outraged Over Women-Drive Proposal - Thu Jun 2, 2005

Associated Press - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - He just wanted his colleagues in the government's legislative arm to discuss the possibility of conducting a study into the feasibility of reversing the ban on women drivers — the only prohibition of its kind in the world.

But Consultative Council member Mohammad al-Zulfa's proposal has unleashed a storm in this conservative country where the subject of women drivers remains taboo.

Al-Zulfa's cell phone now constantly rings with furious Saudis accusing him of encouraging women to commit the double sins of discarding their veils and mixing with men. He gets phone text messages calling on Allah to freeze his blood.

There even have been calls to kick al-Zulfa from the council and strip him of his Saudi nationality.

"Driving by women leads to evil," Munir al-Shahrani wrote in a letter to the editor of the Al-Watan daily. "Can you imagine what it will be like if her car broke down? She would have to seek help from men."

Abdulrahman al-Rashed, a Saudi who is general manager of Al-Arabiya television, wrote in a recent column in Asharq al-Awsat paper: "It's inconceivable that in a country of 25 million, a third of them are women who wait for a driver every day to take them to school, the hospital and relatives' homes."

This can only lead me to conclude that Saudi Arabia will not be on Danica Patrick's speaking tour this year...

 

[Maledict]

Before I click the thread, I knew it was going to be about the ban on women drivers in SA. I can't believe how backward the place is.

On a different topic, I heard that if there is a car accident in SA involving a foreigner and a Saudi, that the blame gets heaped onto the foreigner even if the Saudi was the main cause of the accident?

 

[geni]

Before I click the thread, I knew it was going to be about the ban on women drivers in SA. I can't believe how backward the place is.

Hmm I thought it was going to be about that recent incerdent in NASCAR but no matter.

 

[zenith-nadir]

Before I click the thread, I knew it was going to be about the ban on women drivers in SA. I can't believe how backward the place is.

Rabbi Satan is psychic too? Who would've thunk it....

On a different topic, I heard that if there is a car accident in SA involving a foreigner and a Saudi, that the blame gets heaped onto the foreigner even if the Saudi was the main cause of the accident?

And this first-hand knowledge of Saudi comes from living in...errr...ahhh...Hong Kong?.... or just from remote viewing?