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Saudi women defy driving ban despite fear of arrest A ... - 6/17/2011 6:08:40 PM

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Saudi women defy driving ban despite fear of arrest A call on social media for Saudi women to defy the ban on them driving has brought forward claims on Twitter and YouTube to have done just that./snip
man oh man! they are pushing woman drivers now! The world is going to heck in a hand basket. ;-)~ (JK)

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RE: Saudi women defy driving ban despite fear of arrest... - 6/17/2011 6:12:42 PM

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You beat me to it. However, I would have started the thread like this:

Saudi women, start your engines: Campaign against driving ban hits the road

...The campaign’s official start follows the 10-day detention last month of a 32-year-old woman, Manal al-Sherif, after she posted video of herself driving. She was released after reportedly signing a pledge that she would not drive again or speak publicly.

Her case, however, sparked an outcry from international rights groups and brought direct appeals to Saudi’s rulers to lift the driving ban on women — the only such countrywide rule in the world.

...Saudi Arabia has no written law barring women from driving — only fatwas, or religious edicts, by senior clerics following a strict brand of Islam known as Wahhabism.

They claim the driving ban protects against the spread of vice and temptation because women drivers would be free to leave home alone and interact with male strangers. The prohibition forces families to hire live-in drivers or rely on male relatives to drive.

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RE: Saudi women defy driving ban despite fear of arrest... - 6/17/2011 6:21:21 PM

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Lets have a huge convoy of Saudi women drivers ploughing through the royal palaces or down the main drag in Riyadh. go girls!
Fight the power,they can't arrest all of you.....I wonder how many Saudi women read CM threads....

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RE: Saudi women defy driving ban despite fear of arrest... - 6/17/2011 6:23:30 PM

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*crowns kali's post as Post #1*

i hope their movement is successful!!

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RE: Saudi women defy driving ban despite fear of arrest... - 6/17/2011 6:31:44 PM

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This was mentioned on PBS tonight during the Saudi Women Drivers piece and the forum below, but I can't find anything else on it. Does anyone remember this story from the first Gulf War?

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During the first Gulf War, there was a widely circulated story, perhaps apocryphal, that a female US army soldier was harassed by a Metawa in Dhahran when he realised she had been driving a vehicle- an illegal act for a woman. Her response was to pull a gun on him. I met so many people who "saw this happen" that the street must have been blocked by witnesses.

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RE: Saudi women defy driving ban despite fear of arrest... - 6/17/2011 6:33:53 PM

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I wonder if car insurance rates will go up.

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RE: Saudi women defy driving ban despite fear of arrest... - 6/17/2011 7:21:30 PM

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Saudi women defy driving ban despite fear of arrest A call on social media for Saudi women to defy the ban on them driving has brought forward claims on Twitter and YouTube to have done just that./snip
man oh man! they are pushing woman drivers now! The world is going to heck in a hand basket. ;-)~ (JK)

Sluts!

Whores!

Infidels!

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