Sharia Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places. "Saudi Arabia: Woman detained for driving," from AKI, August 12 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Qatif, 12 August (AKI) - Saudi religious police have arrested a woman in the region of Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia for driving a car.The 47-year-old woman was spotted by agents from the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice after other men reported the woman, said Saudi daily Okaz.
The woman was later released after her family posted bail, and will now be put on trial.
There is no law in Saudi Arabia that prevents women from driving. However, fatwas or religious edicts, have been issued by Wahhabi scholars saying it is sinful for women to drive.
Conservatives argue that if women were allowed to drive, this would lead to women being able to mix freely with men, to corruption and the destruction of family values....
"Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice"
This name could come straight from the pages of Orwell's "1984." How totalitarian!
As my friend Frank would say: Are Saudi women allowed to drive Jews into the sea?"
I read this sort of thing and then marvel that Western women are so eager to convert to this ideology.
The answer, Jewel: that's the duty and responsibility of the Muslim man. The duty of the Muslim woman is to drive her menfolk into a state of insatiable bloodlust and insanity, thus paving the way for the cause of Allah.
They sure are scared of women. Are these men in the closet or what?
Muslim women are allow to drive everywhere expect in Saudic Arabia where it is illegal it not than Kingdom law but many local law as one prince
"I read this sort of thing and then marvel that Western women are so eager to convert to this ideology."
Mo, for the same reason a lot of seemingly clean-cut, imtellegent women get involved with dirt-bag murders on death row.
Low self-esteem coupled with the fact that they fail to believe or simply ignore the ugly facts.