Juan Cole
A key group of Saudi feminists have called off their planned protests
for Saturday against Saudi Arabia’s bizarre ban on women driving. (Some
individuals may go ahead). They did so in response to dire threats from
the Saudi Interior Ministry (i.e. secret police) of condign punishment
against women who got behind the wheel today, and against those who
gathered in public for protests. One woman protester in 2011 was
arrested and sentence to ten lashes (yes). I am a worldly person who
has visited countries in which, all together, perhaps a majority of the
world’s population lives, and I am not quick to condemn other cultures.
But really, whipping women with whips for daring to drive an
automobile, is barbaric.
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