--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seekliberation" <seekliberation@...> wrote: > > > They're [sic] people will want to be part of the rest of the > > world and will eliminate the religious crazies that oppose > > that themselves. > > It'll take decades, if not a couple of centuries of evolution > for some of these countries to grow out of their fundamentalist > views. It took America quite some time to do the same, and I > don't think we're entirely free from fundamentalist thinking > yet either.
Case in point, Saudi Arabia. This puts a whole new spin on men angrily shaking their fists and shouting "Women drivers!" Personally I think that women should be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia only if their eyes are deemed "tempting" (see last paragraph of the article) and they are forced to cover them up. That would result in killing a lot of the men who think like this, so everything would work out. :-) Allowing Women To Drive Would Mean No More Virgins, Saudi Arabia Religious Council Says 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. <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/879314\ 5/Saudi-woman-to-be-lashed-for-driving-car.html> More pornography would be used if women were allowed on the roads and rates of prostitution and divorce would alo rise, the report stated <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/879314\ 5/Saudi-woman-to-be-lashed-for-driving-car.html> . 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 <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8930168/Allowing-women-drivers\ -in-Saudi-Arabia-will-be-end-of-virginity.html> 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 <http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-29/saudi-king-revokes-lashing-\ sentence-against-woman-for-driving> 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." <http://www.ukbbcnews.com/saudi-women-must-cover-their-eyes-attractive.h\ tml>
