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Saudi Arabia: Two men “opposed to women drivers” set fire to a woman’s car

Jul 10, 2018 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34

These men didn’t beat Salma Al-Sharif, they just burned her car. They must be “moderates.”

“Two arrested over arson attack on Saudi woman’s car,” by Ruba Obaid, Arab News, July 6, 2018:

JEDDAH: Two people were arrested and referred to public prosecutors on Wednesday after a woman’s car was set on fire by arsonists.

Authorities in Makkah said one of the men bought gasoline at a garage and asked the other to help him set the car alight.

Meanwhile Saudis throughout the country have rushed to offer support and comfort to the victim of the arson attack.

Like thousands of Saudi women, Salma Al-Sharif, 33, who works as a cashier in Makkah, took to the roads when the de facto ban on women driving was lifted last month.

But her new freedom came to an end when a neighbor knocked on her door just before dawn on Monday, and told her father her car was on fire.

Al-Sharif said the car was deliberately set alight by men “opposed to women drivers.”

She said she had faced abuse from men in her neighborhood soon after she began driving in a bid to ease her financial pressures.

“Half of my salary of 4,000 riyals was spent on a driver to take me to my workplace and drive my elderly parents,” Al-Sharif said. “But from the first day of driving I was subjected to insults from men.”

Makkah police said the incident was being investigated, and “we are searching for the culprits.”

Saudis from across the social spectrum gave Al-Sharif their support. Lina Almaeena, a Shoura Council member and one of the first Saudi women to drive, said this was an “isolated incident, definitely,” and Saudi laws were strict.

Sahar Nassif, another driver, told Arab News: “This is no more than an isolated act, it will never make society back down on women driving. Saudi society is 100 percent ready and supportive of women driving. There is no conflict at all….

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Jul 10, 2018 at 8:29 am

    Not just devout but ardent.

    • mortimer says

      Jul 10, 2018 at 9:16 am

      Sharia law vigilantes will keep Islam from being reformed. Islam permits vigilantism because Mohammed told his followers to change what is wrong ‘with their hands’.

      • Indiana Tom says

        Jul 10, 2018 at 11:57 am

        Uh-huh. You got it.

      • mccode says

        Jul 10, 2018 at 3:50 pm

        It would be so much better if they “changed what is wrong with their heads”.

        • Hector Medero says

          Jul 10, 2018 at 6:09 pm

          It’s not their heads that needs to change, it’s their hearts; They need to be born again and filled with the Holy Spirit and be washed clean of by the blood of Christ Jesus (John 3:3-8).

  2. Susan B is getting really mad@# says

    Jul 10, 2018 at 8:46 am

    Look on the bright side it was the car they burned not her. I hate islam and the savage mohammedan males, not men, it produces.

    • Linda says

      Jul 10, 2018 at 9:23 am

      You’re right. When the car is burned instead of the woman, that is a step up for them, isn’t it?

      • Indiana Tom says

        Jul 10, 2018 at 11:58 am

        See, higher moral standards are indeed in the works for Islam!

    • Benedict says

      Jul 10, 2018 at 10:08 am

      And I don’t hate women, as you sometimes indicate, Susan. I hate the ideology that produces women that kill babies. Because let’s face it: it’s overwhelmingly women, infected with feminist ideology, who kill babies.

      • Kay says

        Jul 10, 2018 at 10:47 am

        Our babies are killed. That is overwhelmingly sad. We must work together to stop this atrocity that hurts us all. We must not blame each other. Babies need us. We need our babies.

        • Indiana Tom says

          Jul 10, 2018 at 12:01 pm

          You really want these type of people breeding?

      • Indiana Tom says

        Jul 10, 2018 at 12:00 pm

        Because let’s face it: it’s overwhelmingly women, infected with Progtard ideology, who kill babies.
        Evolution in action!

      • Mo says

        Jul 10, 2018 at 6:48 pm

        Benedict, I hope that you realise that there are also many men who pressurise women to have abortions – sometimes they succeed in this but not always! Pregnant women are vulnerable and need support to stand against this pressure.
        These men have been infected with the ideologies of atheism and evolution and state that the unborn child is just a collection of cells and not really alive. If it is inconvenient to their lifestyles they want rid of the child. Sometimes this also occurs with trafficked women. Abortion is a tragedy for the woman as well as for the child.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 10, 2018 at 9:53 pm

      I think the threat to her was quite implicit.

  3. Kay says

    Jul 10, 2018 at 10:51 am

    a woman’s car set on fire . . .

    Now many women will “choose” not to drive. Now will the defenders of Mohammedism speak up: women choose not to drive; women choose to wear hijab etc.

    Where there is freedom to choose there is not punishment for choosing.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 12, 2018 at 12:26 am

      Actually, statistically men tend to be more dangerous drivers than women are–and this cuts across cultures.

  4. Guy Forester says

    Jul 10, 2018 at 2:17 pm

    The facts that the woman was not physically harmed, nor her father, tells me that although not wealthy, this family has some kind of protection from an influential family.

    Had she not been connected in some way to an influential family, it would not have ended well. I suspect that those who burnt the car are most likely Muslim Brotherhood or Ikhwan supporters or from some other clan that detests the Saud family.

    KSA is really run by small handful of clans. The rest of the tribes and clans are suppressed. The Saudi clans tend to react rather strongly when challenged.

  5. Raja says

    Jul 10, 2018 at 7:08 pm

    The mafia don of Islam demands thiis kind of vigilantism to that the political system can be propped up. This don requires you to do so many dirty things. Littel wonder Satan i s the king of the world.

    Islam is vrey much a worldly ” relgiion”.

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