Women Drivers: Banned In Saudi Arabia?

  

Women drivers are on the verge of losing their driving privileges in Saudi Arabia. Telegraph.com.uk reported that Saudi Arabia is to raise its veto on women motorists in an effort to limit the country’s increasing suffragette-style movement in an extremely traditional status. Saudi’s administration has announced the landmark resolution. The government also plans to issue an order by the end of 2008.

The government’s action is intended to prevent movements for superior freedom by women. Campaigns have incorporated protesters driving vehicles through the Islamic condition in disobedience of a warning of custody and forfeit of livelihood recently. Declaring the step did not have full support from the public, the royal family has started at endowing women driving permits earlier. Even though the government line has destabilized recently, the driving ban gets back to the year 1932 were the establishment of the state took place.

"There has been a decision to move on this by the Royal Court because it is recognised that if girls have been in schools since the 1960s, they have a capability to function behind the wheel when they grow up," a government official told The Daily Telegraph. "We will make an announcement soon," says Abdulaziz bin Salamah, the deputy information minister.

"In terms of women driving, we don't have it now because of the reticence of some segments of society," he said. "For example, my mother wouldn't want my sister to drive. It's something she cannot grapple with. But there is change on the way. I think the fair view is that one can be against it but one does not have the right to prevent it."

"When it was first raised, the extremists were really mad," he added. "Now they just complain. It is diminishing into a form of consent."

The country preserves a firm isolation of the sexes outside the family home. A woman by herself must shop behind curtains and she cannot call a taxi. Critics considered that giving women the privelege to drive would be the first step towards a continuing change of the kingdom's modesty decrees.

This law is kind of ridiculous. But it’s their own business, so let’s just leave the Arabs alone and step on your brake pad set instead.