Are women on their way at last?
Many Saudi observers took note earlier this month when one of the kingdom’s best-selling dailies, Al-Riyadh, devoted a long article to exploring how to implement a lifting of the driving ban. One expert, for instance, proposed testing liberalised driving laws in one city at a time. Another suggested that before Saudi women can get licences the public could be conditioned by allowing female foreign residents, including household servants, to drive. This would answer the common complaint, voiced even by conservatives, that the driving ban risks increasing the bigger danger of Saudi women mixing with unrelated men who may not even be Muslims.
The Economist
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"household servants, to drive. This would answer the common complaint, voiced even by conservatives, that the driving ban risks increasing the bigger danger of Saudi women mixing with unrelated men who may not even be Muslims."
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If all these people are so religious, it seems like they shouldn't need such an extensive set of laws to keep women and men from jumping into bed together the minute they are alone. Shouldn't reciting a few verses from the Koran be much better inspiration to keep from straying into sin than the fear of a public whipping? What am I misssing?
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Thanks Samer for this ...I'm smelling a rat in what this Rahila is saying about herself. Are they really byuing it? She learned Arabic from the bedouis and came out to sing in Arabic better than Arabs? Hah!
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