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From: SX43@liverpool.ac.uk (Fazal R Ellahi)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Saudi ban on female drivers unislamic
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Date: 15 Nov 90 09:00:00 GMT
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Salaam all,
 
Look at this report in which the Saudis are quoted as saying that its
islamic to not let women drive...
 
>From The Guardian Nov 14 1990 page 6..
                    "SAUDIS BAN ALL FEMALE DRIVERS
                       Reuter in Nicosia.
 
Saudi Arabia confirmed yesterday that all women were banned from driving and of
fenders risked punishment.
The interior ministry made the announcement a week after 49 women shocked
the ultra conservative kingdom by an organised defiance of the ban.
 
The ministry said that women drivers contradicted 'Islamic conduct which is enj
oyed by the proud saudi citizen over female members of his family'.
 
Women who took part in the demonsration had learned to drive abroad. They said
they were inspired by the Kuwaiti women refugees driving across the border. "
 
Of course its too much to ask that the Saudis remember the saying of the
Bessed Prophet (Peace be on him), that the BEST women to marry are the ones
who can ride a camel [read 'drive a car' in todays times!].
 
Until they drop this cultural dross that covers their implementation of
islam they are heading.. you-know-where !
 
Fazal.