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i am not sure
i think under Islamic law women are allowed to drive
but off course there are conditions
 
i am not sure
i think under Islamic law women are allowed to drive
but off course there are conditions

not sure?? there is for sure no islamic law giving men more right that women ....

this kind of behave is nothing but BARBARIC
 




26 October 2013 Last updated at 12:32 GMT

Some Saudi women defy driving ban in day of protest

Woman driver Mai al Swayan: "I went to the grocery shop near my house... I accept the risk"


A handful of Saudi women have taken to the streets in their cars on a day of collective protest against the ban on female drivers.

Several videos of women driving have been posted online despite official warnings that women who took part risked sanctions.

Some women received warning phone calls from men purporting to be from the interior ministry.

But one woman who took part said she had faced no reprisals.

"I went to the grocery shop near the house... there was a reporter with me," Mai al-Sawyan told the BBC from Riyadh.

"Personally I know three other women" who also drove, she said.

"No-one approached me," she said, adding she was hopeful that the ban would be lifted soon.

But one leading activist - the university lecturer Aziza al-Yousef - said she had decided not to take part in the protest drive after being called by the authorities.

Saturday's protest is the third of its kind since 1990, after which a number of women were arrested or lost their jobs.

Police guidance

About 17,000 people (I was one of them) signed a petition calling either for women to be allowed to drive or for an explanation of why the prohibition should remain in force.

An interior ministry spokesman, Mansour al-Turki, considerably toughened the Saudi government line on the women drivers' campaign on Thursday.

Mr Turki explicitly restated that women were prohibited from driving, with violators - and their supporters - likely to face unspecified measures.

A campaign activist, Zaki Safar, said that this was an unusually explicit statement of the ban, which is informal rather than enshrined in Saudi law.

The BBC has seen a document advising police on how to handle women drivers.

It suggests police take them into a side street. There police should issue them and their male guardians with a warning, and make them promise not to drive again.

The car keys should be given to the women's male guardians, the document says.

But the authorities' apparent failure to act to enforce the ban on Saturday has added to activists' conviction that the government is sending mixed messages as it is itself divided over whether to lift the ban.

Earlier this week, about 100 conservative clerics asked for an audience at the royal court in the capital, Riyadh, to denounce the campaign as a conspiracy by women and a threat to the country.

But there have been indications of a less hard-line attitude by the authorities than back in 1990, and at the second protest in 2011.

As part of the latest campaign, dozens of women have posted online videos of themselves driving in different Saudi cities. No-one has been arrested.

The activists behind the campaign believe the public mood is changing, with many more people - including an increasing number of men - publicly supporting the lifting of the ban.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24658753
 
These women just want to find out if driving indeed could damage their ovaries.
 
Are you serious?

I posted based on the Reuters news. Have you been living under a rock?

Don't blame me if you guys are ignorant and ridiculous.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/29/us-saudi-driving-idUSBRE98S04B20130929

Saudi cleric says women who drive risk damaging their ovaries

Reuters) - A conservative Saudi Arabian cleric has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom's male-only driving rules.

A campaign calling for women to defy the ban in a protest drive on October 26 has spread rapidly online over the past week and gained support from some prominent women activists. On Sunday, the campaign's website was blocked inside the kingdom.

In an interview published on Friday on the website sabq.org, Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Lohaidan said women aiming to overturn the ban on driving should put "reason ahead of their hearts, emotions and passions".

Reuters earlier wrongly identified him as Sheikh Saleh bin Mohammed al-Lohaidan, a member of the Senior Council of Scholars, one of the top religious bodies in the birthplace of Islam.

By contrast, Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Lohaidan, the person quoted in the sabq.org report, is a judicial adviser to an association of Gulf psychologists.

His comments reflect the extent of opposition to women driving among some conservatives inSaudi Arabia.

"If a woman drives a car, not out of pure necessity, that could have negative physiological impacts as functional and physiological medical studies show that it automatically affects the ovaries and pushes the pelvis upwards," he told Sabq.

"That is why we find those who regularly drive have children with clinical problems of varying degrees," he said.

He did not cite specific medical studies to support his arguments.

The ban on women driving is not backed by a specific law, but only men are granted driving licenses. Women can be fined for driving without a license but have also been detained and put on trial in the past on charges of political protest.

Sheikh Abdulatif Al al-Sheikh, the head of the morality police, told Reuters a week ago that there was no text in the documents making up sharia, or Islamic law, that barred women from driving.

King Abdullah has pushed some cautious reforms aimed at expanding women's freedoms in Saudi Arabia, including opening more employment opportunities for them, but he has not addressed the issue of driving.

(Reporting by Angus McDowall; Editing by William Maclean and Kevin Liffey)

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These women just want to find out if driving indeed could damage their ovaries.

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@Jungibaaz

When will this serial troll get banned? Please look at his user history. He is constantly provoking us Arabs, Muslims and especially Saudi Arabians being a non-native of the region and complete ignoramus. I suggest dealing with this individual once and for all and stopping him from polluting/trolling further threads repeatedly.

It is unbelievable that he is still able to comment on this section.
 
Watching girls do something forbidden is soooo HARAM ..... I am loving it.
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OT. More power to the Ladies all around the world.
 
Watching girls do something forbidden is soooo HARAM ..... I am loving it.
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OT. More power to the Ladies all around the world.

Actually that" law" which is not really a law to begin with if you read the article and research that particular topic, has nothing to do with Islam. It is a very stupid "law". I have always been against it. I am happy that it seems that most people are supportive of this cause and that the police that saw women driving did nothing to stop them. It is also a question of time before that stupid "law" is abolished. Good riddance I say.
 
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Actually that" law" which is not really a law to begin with if you read the article and research that particular topic, has nothing to do with Islam. It is a very stupid "law". I have always been against it. I am happy that it seems that most people are supportive of this cause and that the police that saw women driving did nothing to stop them. It is also a question of time before that stupid "law" is abolished. Good riddance I say.
I know brother, I was just messing around.
 
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