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Saudi woman defies driving ban to save man’s life

May 12, 2017 4:29 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

The female college student in Saudi Arabia who violated her country’s ban on women being able to drive will likely not earn the customary lashes for her “crime.” After all, she did do an “honorable” deed by saving the life of a man, whose life according to the Sharia is double the value of her own (in her testimony, inheritance and the indemnity paid after accidental killing).

“Young Saudi woman saves man’s life by defying driving ban – media”, by Susan Baaghil, RT News, May 12, 2017:

A female college student in Saudi Arabia took the wheel of a minibus after its male driver suffered a stroke. The young woman’s actions, which violated a controversial ban in the country, helped save the man’s life, local media report.

Ashwaq Al-Shammari was being driven from university together with four other female students to their homes near the city of Hail in northwest Saudi Arabia earlier this week, the Saudi Gazette reported.

In the middle of their journey, the driver told the passengers he was feeling dizzy and pulled over. He then fell unconscious.

Stranded in the middle of the road, some of the girls tried to resuscitate the driver, while Ashwaq decided it was time to remember the driving skills she had learned on her father’s farm.

She got behind the wheel of the minibus, driving to a nearby shop to get some water for the unwell driver. When that didn’t help, she proceeded to drive to his house.

From there, the driver’s family took charge, taking him to a government hospital about 50km (30 miles) away. He was diagnosed with a brain stroke, but was saved due to the girls’ quick intervention, the newspaper said.

Ashwaq’s father, Zahir Al-Shammari, who works in education, praised his daughter’s actions. “I’m extremely proud of my daughter, whom I taught driving at my farm when she was young. Her voluntary work was part of her social responsibility,” the Saudi Gazette quoted him as saying.

The Saudi kingdom appears to be the only country in the world where women’s driving is banned. Most Saudi religious authorities and scholars pronounce it forbidden, while driving licenses are not officially issued to women.

However, there are reports that enforcement of the ban varies by region. It’s said to be especially strict in Riyadh and the surrounding areas….

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  1. billybob says

    May 12, 2017 at 5:24 pm

    Can’t have women driving. They might run away from their brutal husbands.

  2. Richard says

    May 12, 2017 at 5:40 pm

    She was doing a noble deed, as it says in the Quran (5:32), to save a mans life is like saving all of mankind. Mind you that was for the Jews but no harm if she does it. For that she will get brownie points.

    Unfortunately in doing so she was violating the subsequent verse (5.33), as she was “doing mischief in the land” ie violating Shariah and “The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter.”

    In other words she goes to hell after being dismembered. Pity

  3. Terry says

    May 12, 2017 at 5:48 pm

    I think the Saudis are becoming less concerned with following some of the Sharia laws, as they concern women.

    As noted- enforcement of the ban on women driving varies, and in one of the Saudi capitals ( there are two) there is an English language newspaper with a woman editor and publisher. (I forgot the name, but during the presidential campaigns I read it, online, several times; better editorials and analysis then on the lame stream media and internet sites. Very balanced. well written.

    Sorry I don’t recall the name, but if searching English language Saudi newspaper, sure one could find it.

    • gravenimage says

      May 13, 2017 at 9:04 pm

      Uh huh. Saudi Arabia and the rest of Dar-al-Islam is now a feminist paradise…

      Here are a couple of stories to show how “moderate” things have become there:

      “…Saudi woman fleeing abuse returned to her abusers, could be killed”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/04/philippines-saudi-woman-fleeing-abuse-returned-to-her-abusers-could-be-killed

      “Saudi religious police arrest woman for going out in public unveiled”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/saudi-religious-police-arrest-woman-for-going-out-in-public-unveiled

  4. abad says

    May 12, 2017 at 5:50 pm

    And if this happened in the United States of America and no one on the minibus was Muslim she would be hailed as a hero.

    See how that works?

    Islam is the most backwards, barbaric, anti-human religion ever to exist.

  5. Douglas Strand says

    May 12, 2017 at 6:24 pm

    Off with her head!

  6. davej says

    May 12, 2017 at 7:03 pm

    Good work – now kill her.

  7. Salome says

    May 12, 2017 at 7:05 pm

    She must’ve learned somewhere. It doesn’t take long, but I remember the first time I tried to drive it took a session or so for my judgement of distances and of what steering would do to tally up.

    • gravenimage says

      May 13, 2017 at 9:09 pm

      Her father taught her to drive on his farm. Still, tackling driving a minibus under stress–with no recent practice–must have been *very* difficult.

  8. Troybeam says

    May 12, 2017 at 7:55 pm

    So daddy taught her to drive, farm equipment no less, what kind of punishment will he receive for doing so? Will this set a craze for women to start driving, on another note..after watching Muslim women drive down the center of the road using the painted lines to guide them in my city I can understand why Saudi’s ban women from driving, now if only the men would stop driving as well they are inpatient, ride your back end getting to prayer, disrespectful to female drivers I’ve have watched it happen.

    • Carolyne says

      May 13, 2017 at 5:05 pm

      I was in a taxi in Istanbul when the driver rear-ended the car In front because there was a dancing bear on the sidewalk and it distracted him He got out and looked at the damage and started crying. I got out and was told by passers by that I should leave as I could be held responsible. I don’t think I ever moved so fast before or after

    • gravenimage says

      May 13, 2017 at 9:12 pm

      Muslim men are not any better drivers than the women–worse, as a rule, because they are so aggressive.

  9. mortimer says

    May 12, 2017 at 9:20 pm

    The hadiths of Mohammed that insult and degrade all women:

    – I think that women were created for nothing but evil.
    – Women have ten ‘awrat (vulvas). When she gets married, the husband covers one, and when she dies the grave covers the ten (of her shameful parts).
    – A straw mat in the corner of the house is preferable to a barren woman.
    – Women are toys, so choose (your ‘toys’).
    – The woman is a toy, whoever takes her, let him care for her [ or do not lose her ].
    – Had it not been for women, God would have truly, truly been worshipped.
    – Men perished the day they obeyed the women.
    – Obedience to a woman’s advice causes regret.
    – Consult women and act contrary (to it).
    – Sneezing, drowsing, yawning in prayer, also menstruation, vomiting and nose-bleeding are from Satan.
    – When…your affairs are in the hands of your women, the interior of the earth (hell) will be the better for you than its surface.
    – If a woman offered one of her breasts to be cooked and the other to be roasted, she still will fall short of fulfilling her obligations to her husband. And besides that if she disobeys her husband even for a twinkling of an eye, she would be thrown in the lowest part of Hell, except she repents and turns back.
    – Mohammed asked some women, “Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half that of a man?” The women said, “Yes,” He said, “This is because of the deficiency of the woman’s mind.”
    – I have not seen any one more deficient in intelligence and religion than you (women).
    – I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers are women.
    – Bad omen is in the woman, the house and the horse.
    – After me I have not left any affliction more harmful to men than women.
    – Don’t wear false hair for Allah sends His curse upon such ladies who lengthen their hair artificially.
    – Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur’an.
    – Women, slaves and camels are same.
    – Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman.

    • Charli Main says

      May 13, 2017 at 8:02 am

      “Allah” has made it clear through his ” prophet” Mohammed that women are shyte, and he only created them to breed more Muslims, to spread Islam.

      For the pleasure of Muslim men ” Allah” created boys as sweet as pearls and herds of sexy goats.

      • Jeanette says

        May 13, 2017 at 9:27 am

        If there really were an Allah, and he really had the attitude toward women that Mohammed claimed, then he would have made his people hermaphrodites, so that the men could gleefully have sex with each other and produce lots of little Muslims, with no need to dirty up the planet with livestock (who are nonetheless expected to understand and follow human rules).

        The fact that Allah was incapable of engineering that confirms that Mohammed invented him.

        • Skeptic Sam says

          May 13, 2017 at 12:54 pm

          Jeanette you got that right on.

    • Carolyne says

      May 13, 2017 at 5:11 pm

      Kindly remember that women are cursed in Christianity because Eve listened to a snake which told her to eat an apple. (I do not know what language the snake spoke or actually which language Eve spoke, forthat matter.) She then persuaded Adam to try a bite and the sins of man are all her fault for listening to the snake. Eating this apple caused women to experience pain during childbirth among many other bad things. I believe this makes as much sense as all of the above in the post by Mortimer.

      • Terry says

        May 13, 2017 at 6:58 pm

        Carolyn– ACTUALLY, what is mentioned IS THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.

        I think it was Da Vinci or Michelangelo who-in a painting, made the fruit an apple.

        In older Jewish texts, the theory was, it was a fig. The reason being, Adam covered his penis and Eve her vagina with fig leafs- as if- using the leafs to make up for the sin caused by eating the fig.

      • Musalmaanmasala says

        May 15, 2017 at 1:43 am

        Carolyne you are sadly mistaken in your assumption that “women are cursed in Christianity” because Eve ate the forbidden fruit and so did Adam.
        Eve was a partner along with Adam and shared all with him and no where is it said that sins of man are because of Eve.
        Also you seem to forget that this so called “fault” of Eve GAVE US A WONDERFUL SAVIOUR – Jesus the Christ.
        So Eve the woman is really a blessing instead of a curse.

    • gravenimage says

      May 13, 2017 at 9:13 pm

      All true, Mortimer. Islam hates women.

  10. Mak says

    May 12, 2017 at 9:44 pm

    It sure is a good thing the UN lets forward thinking countries like Saudi Arabia chastise Israel on “human rights.” (sarcasm)

    • Jeanette says

      May 13, 2017 at 9:29 am

      The UN has an agenda to severely reduce the world population.

      Putting the female-murdering and -mutilating monsters into a position of power at the UN works very well with that agenda (U.N. Agenda 2030).

  11. STJOHNOFGRAFTON says

    May 12, 2017 at 10:53 pm

    It’s a wonder that the Saudi sharia police didn’t give the male stroke victim 50 lashes for being rescued by a woman. Albeit, a woman committing the capitol offence of driving a motor vehicle whilst under the influence of being female.

  12. scherado says

    May 13, 2017 at 7:03 am

    Can anyone imagine the resultant story had the woman drove ANOTHER WOMAN in physical distress? Life in prison?

  13. Dennis says

    May 13, 2017 at 9:14 am

    THere were no cars n islamc countries until this era. How could there be a law aganst it? In india the Deomdi Madrasss forbids muslims from space travel. Fat chancr

    • Jeanette says

      May 13, 2017 at 9:31 am

      That might be a good reason to move to another planet – no Muslims.

    • Carolyne says

      May 13, 2017 at 4:50 pm

      We had a Muslim aboard one of our space vehicles.. The idea was to acknowledge the contributions that Muslims have made to the world. I can’t think of any, actually. At least nothing good. They do rape goats and marry children, but I don’t think that helps the world at all.

  14. Singh the Sikh says

    May 13, 2017 at 7:17 pm

    Saudi Arabia, it goes without saying, is a screwed up country/society that should be a pariah state but greed is seeing countries like US grovel to Saudi Arabia while British political establishment and royalty lay out the red carpet for Saudi sheiks. The Saudis have bought off entire countries and their leadership with their oil dollars which purchase arms, aircraft, etc.

    Oil mafia in US includes Bush Jnr, who had oil dollars in his sights when he described Islam as a religion of peace – straight after 9/11. Blair when he was PM was thinking about how he might cash in once his PM days were over. There are other leaders dazzled by stupendous Saudi wealth who don’t criticize or question. Instead they inflict terrible damage with statements like ‘religion of peace’.

    It means Saudi Arabia is free to spread Wahhabism and Salafism throughout the world. It’s sinking hundreds of millions into this indirect terror campaign. It’s not even a secret. Even then Saudi Arabia is still not a pariah state or bombed into oblivion. Bush declared Iran a terrorist state so why not Saudi Arabia given the carnage inflicted by the doctrines it’s promoting? Saudi Arabia is sowing the seeds of world terror. Saudi Arabia is a terrorist state. But it’s being protected by the most powerful leaders in the world – the Bushes, Clinton’s, and Blair’s, who benefit directly from Saudi largess to line their pockets. They are complicit in the murder of their own citizens. They are indirect participants and enablers.

    • Charli Main says

      May 14, 2017 at 3:41 am

      I feel really insulted that you left out our beloved David Cameron.

      It was through the efforts of this Muslim hugging turd, that Saudi Arabia got elected to the UNHRC.

      Saudi Arabia on the UNHRC is the definition of a sick joke !!!!

  15. gravenimage says

    May 13, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    Saudi woman defies driving ban to save man’s life
    …………………….

    Kudos to this brave young woman for saving this man’s life.

    And yet, she will probably suffer for it.

    God, I hate islam.

  16. Jay says

    May 14, 2017 at 6:23 pm

    This reminds me of my motto, GOD DAMN ISLAM.

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