Try not to laugh. Saudi women are fighting for the right to drive. It’s really not funny. It’s pathetic.
Women in the only country in the world which still bans women from driving want to put their best foot forward – on the accelerator.
Saudi Arabia’s newly established League of Demanders of Women’s Right to Drive Cars plans to deliver a petition to King Abdallah Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al Saud, calling for their “stolen” entitlement of free movement to be restored.
Love the scare quotes by the Indy. It is a stolen entitlement. In Saudi Arabia, men can drive; women cannot. In Saudi Arabia, women cannot travel without a male family escort, nor can they leave the country without their husband or father’s permission. There is no freedom of movement for Saudi women, and they are entitled to that freedom by sheer virtue of being born. There are such things as natural rights that are beyond the laws of any nation, and freedom of movement is one of them.
Mind you, I think nothing will come of this. The Wahhabi creeps that run the kingdom won’t allow women to be free. Which is why Saudi Arabia will never be anything but a third-world backwater with delusions of grandeur, funded by oil profits. At least when the alternative energies are developed, the Saudi’s ruling clan will end its death grip on the nation. Without the petrodollars keeping the poor happy and fed, revolution is certain.
Here’s hoping it’s soon.
Here’s a question: At Durban II and in the various UN human rights councils, who is going to be named as the greatest threat to the well-being and rights of Arab women? (Hint: it rhymes with “you know whose.”)