Allowing Women To Drive Would Mean No More Virgins, Saudi Arabia Religious Council Says


Huffington Post UK Felicity Morse First Posted: 2/12/11 18:01 GMT Updated: 2/12/11 18:01 GMT


Allowing women to drive in Saudi Arabia would mean no more virgins and an increase in homosexuality, according to academics at Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, Majlis al-Ifta' al-A'ala, it has been reported in the Telegraph.

More pornography would be used if women were allowed on the roads and rates of prostitution and divorce would alo rise, the report stated.

Produced in conjunction with Kamal Subhi, a former professor at the King Fahd University, the study into repealing the ban predicted that there would be no more virgins left in the Arab kingdom in 10 years.

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world which bans women from driving.

Professor Subhi described sitting in a coffee shop in an unnamed Arab state where “all the women were looking at me“.

“One made a gesture that made it clear that she was available,” he said. “This is what happens when women are allowed to drive.”

The report was produced for the country's legislative assembly, the Shura Council. However this institution has no power as Saudi Arabia is ruled by a monarchy with absolute power.

The state’s controversial ban on female drivers last came under attack in September after Shaima Jastaniya was sentenced to 10 lashes just days after Saudi King Abdullah granted women the right to vote. The punishment was overturned after international and domestic pressure.

Saudi Arabia is currently considering a law for women to cover up their eyes if they are deemed too "tempting."

Allowing Women To Drive Would Mean No More Virgins, Saudi Arabia Religious Council Says

I believe it. It is after all how I lost my first girlfriend.

Had a low speed accident at an intersection that caused her to slip onto the car's stick shift, after which she decided she no longer had any use for me.

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That's the future facing Saudi Arabia...



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Professor Subhi described sitting in a coffee shop in an unnamed Arab state where “all the women were looking at me“. “One made a gesture that made it clear that she was available,” he said. “This is what happens when women are allowed to drive.”

Delusional mythomaniac? Delusional mythomaniac.

... unless he is the Arab Johnny Depp....

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They were prolly just staring at the bogie lodged in his beard.

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Women driving has been a controversial issue in Saudi Arabia since 1990 when 47 women got into 14 cars and drove on to a main street in Riyadh. They were stopped, suspended from work for two years and condemned for years in religious sermons and social circles. The last public assault was when Sheikh Mohammed Al Arefe in 2003 objected to the fact that these women were allowed to go back to teaching because he was worried that they would encourage their students to follow in their footsteps. It took more than 15 years for another group of women to gather the courage to start a public movement against the ban on female driving. Since 2006, every few months there would be a study, petition, video or campaign but to no avail. This is no surprise, because there are just as many studies, videos, petitions and campaigns calling on the government to maintain the ban. Professor Kamal al-Subhi has written the most recent of these studies. Subhi is an American-educated retired professor who took it upon himself to prepare a scientific study on the effects of women driving on society. The study is based on unstructured direct interviews methodology, in which he visited two unnamed Arabian Gulf countries and a third unnamed North African country to ask people about the effects of women driving. Strangely, all the people he asked were unanimously against women driving and felt that one way or another it was the reason behind their societies' woes. Subhi categorised their replies into eight main comments, all of which were negative and misogynistic. One such comment: "Girls are the key to immorality. It will ensue if they are given unrestricted freedom because of their small mindedness or if they face a problem." He also makes his own observations on these neighbouring societies: "After a while, a woman got up and walked to her car in the parking lot in front of the Starbucks we were in. She shouted at the Indian cleaning her car for not doing a good job of it. She was wearing a pair of pants so tight that her innermost organs were discernible. "Despite that, she put her hands on her knees and bowed down to point at a lower part of the car that the Indian had missed. The young men at the cafe were attentively watching through the glass this undoubtedly arousing scene. The whole place was indecent and smelt of moral disintegration." Subhi refers to a study a fellow researcher told him about that was conducted by Unesco that linked women driving to adultery, divorce, rape and illegitimate children. He does remark, though, that he has not seen this study for himself. Subhi wrote this 16-page study for a like-minded online group of influential intellectuals and writers. A third party felt it was worthy of a national audience and so took it to the Shura Council, a government-appointed advisory body made up of 150 members. At the Shura Council, the study was not only received but a Shura member also personally endorsed it. It was later leaked to women's rights activists who scanned a copy and posted it for the whole world to see. The overwhelming majority of Saudis online were not only offended but also embarrassed that a Saudi so-called successful intellectual would write so lowly of women from neighbouring countries. There were also many remarks asking how the Shura Council members could have their time wasted by being given this type of study for consideration. Subhi has issued a statement through the same online group in objection to the international ridicule that he and his study have been subjected to. In this statement he writes that he knows the west, and his study follows international scientific standards no one can refute. He claims that he is so greatly respected by his western counterparts that they offered him citizenship. The problem with the international press report, he says, is that it was commissioned by a Saudi hater who used a miserable reporter to write a piece that unfairly summed up his 16-page paper into half a page. In this follow-up statement he addresses Saudi royal princesses and advises them to not make statements to the international media on advancing women's rights within the country. This is a thinly veiled criticism of many princesses who have done just that in the past such as Princess Adelah, Princess Basma bint Saud, Princess Amira Al Taweel and Princess Loloah Al Faisal. These royal family members have all advocated lifting the ban on women driving. Finally, he warns that we as Saudis have to tread carefully and slowly when it comes to women's rights because one thing might lead to another, until homosexuals start demanding and getting rights.

The Saudi 'study' that finds all women drivers on the road to immorality | Eman Al Nafjan | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

"Innermost organs"? Eewwwww.

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