Saudi Arabia: Allowing Women to Drive will Encourage Sex

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Sunday Dec 04, 2011

Saudi Arabia: Allowing Women to Drive will Encourage Sex

Huffington Post News Article - December 4, 2011

Saudi Arabia: Women Driving Will Have Sex, Report Says
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A report given to a high-level advisory group in Saudi Arabia claims that allowing women in the kingdom to drive could encourage premarital sex, a rights activist said Saturday.

The ultraconservative stance suggests increasing pressure on King Abdullah to retain the kingdom's male-only driving rules despite international criticism.

Rights activist Waleed Abu Alkhair said the document by a well-known academic was sent to the all-male Shura Council, which advises the monarchy. The report by Kamal Subhi claims that allowing women to drive will threaten the country's traditions of virgin brides, he said. The suggestion is that driving will allow greater mixing of genders and could promote sex.

Saudi women have staged several protests defying the driving ban. The king has already promised some reforms, including allowing women to vote in municipal elections in 2015.

There was no official criticism or commentary on the scholar's views, and it was unclear whether they were solicited by the Shura Council or submitted independently. But social media sites were flooded with speculation that Saudi's traditional-minded clerics and others will fight hard against social changes suggested by the 87-year-old Abdullah.

Saudi's ruling family, which oversees Islam's holiest sites, draws its legitimacy from the backing of the kingdom's religious establishment, which follows a strict brand of Islam known as Wahhabism. While Abdullah has pushed for some changes on women's rights, he is cautious not to push too hard against the clerics.

In October, Saudi Arabia named a new heir to the throne, Prince Nayef, who is a former interior minister and considered to hold traditionalist views, although he had led crackdowns against suspected Islamic extremists. His selection appeared to embolden the ultraconservative clerics to challenge any sweeping social reforms.

Prince Nayef was picked following the death of Crown Prince Sultan.

Merge · Post by **Merge** » Monday Dec 05, 2011

I still can't figure out how that came to that conclusion.

TheBMC · Post by **TheBMC** » Monday Dec 05, 2011

Sooooo.... they are afraid the ladies will want sex???>>?!?! can't figure out where the problem is.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Monday Dec 05, 2011

Heyyyy, why not? It worked here, didn't it?

MistValkyrie · Post by **MistValkyrie** » Monday Dec 05, 2011

Merge wrote:I still can't figure out how that came to that conclusion.

The same way they come up with all their other brilliant ideas about how to treat women...right out of their fat, moronic asses.

RobTheDrummer · Post by **RobTheDrummer** » Tuesday Dec 06, 2011

They are just a bunch of jealous fucks living in the middle ages.

sstuckey · Post by **sstuckey** » Tuesday Dec 06, 2011

I dunno....it makes PERFECT sense to me. It's a lot easier to respond to a booty call when you drive a Porsche opposed to a camel!

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Tuesday Dec 06, 2011

sstuckey wrote:I dunno....it makes PERFECT sense to me. It's a lot easier to respond to a booty call when you drive a Porsche opposed to a camel!

Do you remember the old Camel cigarette commercial slogan - "I'd walk a mile for a Camel"?