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Saudi Women Not Allowed To Drive

SOME SAUDIS IN AN UPROAR OVER CALL TO LET WOMEN DRIVE

All he was asking, says Mohammad al-Zulfa, was that his fellow legislators think -- just think -- about studying the possibility of allowing women -- not all of them, just some -- to drive.
Ref. https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,...38818,00.html

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Oh, yes. I definitely knew about this. Saudi women are also not allowed to own businesses, show their faces outside their homes, talk to any man not of their own family, and lots of other things.

I think it is still the case that they are not allowed to vote or have any political involvement at all.

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It is an outrage to me that such laws exist! I just don't think such laws should be allowed in any country. It is a human rights issue. I don't have an answer to how to stop such behavior, but it isn't right. I don't care what your religious beliefs, I am still a person. You may not feel I have rights, but that isn't for you to legislate. If I am Muslim, then as a religious matter, I should not do these things. I am not Muslim, if I want to drive, I should be allowed to do so. I am so angry to read such things. We call these people our allies too, do we not?

As long as such laws exist in a country I don't think a "civilized" country should do business with them. I am not talking about exports and imports of goods. I am talking about political business. I will still buy their oil. I just don't want to help defend their borders.

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As a side issue here, I think I have read that even if a woman (foreign or not) is driving the car in an emergency to get someone to the hospital they are guilty of a serious crime and will be (not can be) punished severely.

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Your correct. During the beginning of the Iraqi war, some saudi women drove cars to get away from emergency situations and they ended up spending one night in jail for it! ARG!

Saudi Women Not Allowed To Drive

Woman defies driving ban, saves husband?

Reuters - A Saudi woman defied a ban on women driving to get her husband urgent medical help after he collapsed at the wheel, Al-Watan newspaper said Tuesday.
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That would be one place I could not live... and I feel deeply for women there who are stuck and can't escape to a different life. I guess if I were there in that situation and my husband suddenly collapsed or became unconscious, I would definately have taken over the wheel to try to get him to medical help. What the article doesn't mention is if she was charged or what the consequences were for her actions? I can't imagine it.

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Saudi women take drive in capital - activist

A group supporting a campaign to end Saudi Arabia's male-only driving rules says two more women drove through the Saudi capital - and one even encountered an apparently sympathetic policeman. Ref. Source 4