Saudi Gov Allows Women to Drive !

[Magi Brahmin]

Finally now @Well.wisher and @Spring Onion can drive !

 

[El Sidd]

i don't have wife yet so can't about your last line of comment but as far as scientific research is concerned ironically it agrees with the cleric

Well that is where things get messy.

Scientific evidence suggest women are actually more prone than men when recollecting an ordeal or an incident. There is something that gets triggered in their heads

but to blow this so out of proportion in 2017 to justify a driving bad is just not correct.

I will come back on this if i have enough time but just not the time nor the place to discuss these things.

 

[Spring Onion]

Finally now @Well.wisher and @Spring Onion can drive !

Yeh man what a relief.

 

[Magi Brahmin]

mmmm well if MEN can drive with NO brain then I am sure WOMEN can with half a brain.

Not possible as

0/2 = 0

 

[BATMAN]

i don't have wife yet so can't about your last line of comment but as far as scientific research is concerned ironically it agrees with the cleric

Any one can bribe politicians, to secure false scientific declarations.
Tobacco industry did it. Coca-Cola did it, and so did many more processed food industries have been doing same, resulting in idiots being born, having half the brain of their predecessors.

 

[SecularNationalist]

Wow quite an achievement
Welcome to the 21st century

Like the guy above me said, The prophets wife was not only successful but rode camels. So I never understood the Woman cant drive in Saudi Arabia part, do they not follow their own religion? Or are they living in crazy La La land

That,s right do not confuse prophetic tradition with the saudi tradition.

 

[Dinky]

Wow quite an achievement
Welcome to the 21st century


That,s right do not confuse prophetic tradition with the saudi tradition.

but isnt Prophetic tradition meant to be Saudi Tradition as well since Saudi Arabia is an Islamic country

 

[Saif al-Arab]

but isnt Prophetic tradition meant to be Saudi Tradition as well since Saudi Arabia is an Islamic country

Do yourself a favor and don't listen to ignorant people who do not know what they are talking about.

Visit this thread for all the information that you need to know about:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/national-day-celebrations-in-saudi-arabia-and-what-was-witnessed-during-this-event-that-bounds-well.520724/

In short this moronic 25 year old law (!) "law" (de facto it was never a law in the first place) came into existence in the early 1990's (largely thanks to the late Ibn Baz). It coincided with the presence of US troops in KSA (that were stationed in KSA when Kuwait was liberated and stayed for some years afterwards).

Many people fail to realise that it was a ban on women driving and not a prohibition of it. Prior to the (early 1990's) ban, women drove in Saudi Arabia. The Council of Senior scholars clearly pointed out in their statement released by SPA:

''Fatwas of all scholars concerning women's driving of vehicles focused on the interests and evils, but not on driving in itself which is not forbidden by anyone.''

Also: ''The statement noted that the majority of the members of the Senior Scholars Council said that the religious ruling allows women's driving of vehicles and they do not see what prevents women from driving vehicles in the light of religious and regulatory guarantees to maintain and respect women...''

Even prior to the removal of this moronic "law", women in the countryside (mountain and desert villages) drove.

Only an idiot would claim that a 25 year old "law" (previous "law") is part of a country's "culture" let alone that of KSA/Arabia whose culture is several millennia old. Not to say that 1400 years ago (earliest Islamic era) local females had many more rights than most other females of the time in the world and moreover rode horses and camels in battles moreover!

Not only that, Saudi Arabian women based abroad (either the GCC, other Arab countries or the West) took driver licenses abroad.

1,470 Saudi women get driving license from Jordan


Nur Al-Zahrani


Saudi Gazette report

TABUK — Around 1,470 Saudi women have received driving licenses from Jordan in the past few years, Jordanian police sources told Okaz.

The source said that Saudi women drivers were excellent on the road and adhered to traffic regulations.

It has been reported that those women who hold international driving licenses will be exempted from driving license examination in Saudi Arabia.

More than 2,000 male and female students are studying in Jordan.

Most of the Saudi female students in Jordan said that the decision to allow women to drive will ease many of the problems they face.

This step will help the Saudi women in the job market, especially that the biggest problem they face is transportation.

Fatima Al-Awami, a student studying medicine in Jordan, said that she learned driving when she was in Jordan because the cost of transportation is very high in Amman.

She got her first driving license in 2013.

Praising the Royal decree to grant driving license to women, she said: “This decision is historical and will be remembered by many generations to come. I truly thank the King and the Crown Prince for this decision.”

Fatima Al-Mahrous, another Saudi female student, received her driving license in 2014.

She said, “The decision will benefit many families, especially those women who are being constantly blackmailed by drivers to increase their salary.”

Hanan Muhammad, another student, said that she takes the wheel as soon as her husband enters the Jordanian border. She said that driving is very important for women and benefit the family in general.

Nur Al-Zahrani sees the decision as good and timely.

She does not have a driver’s license, but she will work on getting one in Jordan.

http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/518346/SAUDI-ARABIA/Saudi-women

Suffice to say that the vast majority of people were always against this moronic 25 year old "law" in particular ordinary families as hiring a driver all the time (basically) is not cheap and a senseless waste of money!

BTW there are 4-5 threads about this news. They should be merged and moved elsewhere as the Arab section is strictly military matters as per the rules.

 

[SecularNationalist]

but isnt Prophetic tradition meant to be Saudi Tradition as well since Saudi Arabia is an Islamic country

Not really .Today the saudi arabia we see is full of hypocrisy and not reflecting the prophet and his values.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

Not really .Today the saudi arabia we see is full of hypocrisy and not reflecting the prophet and his values.

Did you read post 83?

Also who told you that KSA let alone any country in this world in today's era is capable to emulate the era of Prophet Muhammad (saws)? Those are standards that no country can live up to today. Pakistan included as you very well are aware of. Not sure why you are targeting KSA here. Maybe bias or hatred? Just be frank as we tend to prefer frank discussions rather than bullshitting.

 

[The SC]

Women driving..no good.. open the mind with valuable facts... well, yes there are advantages and it creates happiness..good good..

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

Sad day for masculinity and men. i thought we would have at least one nation that can resist the plague called feminism. Now they are already putting quotas for women in government so women can underachieve their way into anything. Before you know it saudi would be like sweden. If feminism is global warming, saudi is arctic.

 

[Khafee]

Sad day for masculinity and men. i thought we would have at least one nation that can resist the plague called feminism. Now they are already putting quotas for women in government so women can underachieve their way into anything. Before you know it saudi would be like sweden. If feminism is global warming, saudi is arctic.

This is a step in the right direction, I don't know why you have to link it to feminism.

@abdulbarijan What do you say?

 

[abdulbarijan]

This is a step in the right direction, I don't know why you have to link it to feminism.

@abdulbarijan What do you say?

A step in the right direction in my opinion ...