I suppose that since they can no longer
claim that Women driving is against Sharia Law they must say
something. The excuse of damaged ovaries is as good as any ,
especially if you are counting on compliance and
subservience.......Hmmmm.
How's that compliant and subservient thing working for you ????
~Desert Rose~
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Last Update: Saturday, 28 September 2013 KSA 07:27 - GMT 04:27
Saturday, 28 September 2013
Saudi Sheikh Salah al-Luhaydan said driving “could have a reverse physiological impact" on women. (Al Arabiya)
Al Arabiya
Saudi
women seeking to challenge a de facto ban on driving should realize
that this could affect their ovaries and pelvises, Sheikh Salah
al-Luhaydan, also a psychologist, told Saudi news website
sabq.org.
Driving
“could have a reverse physiological impact. Physiological science and
functional medicine studied this side [and found] that it automatically
affects ovaries and rolls up the pelvis. This is why we find for women
who continuously drive cars their children are born with clinical
disorders of varying degrees,” Sheikh al-Luhaydan said.
Saudi female activists have launched an online campaign urging women to drive on Oct. 26.
More than 11,000 women have signed the
oct26driving.com
declaration that says: “Since there are no clear justifications for the
state to ban adult, capable women from driving. We call for enabling
women to have driving tests and for issuing licenses for those who
pass.”
Sheikh al-Luhaydan urged these women to consider “the mind
before the heart and emotion and look at this issue with a realistic
eye.”
“The result of this is bad and they should wait and consider the negativities,” he said.
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By Sebastian Usher BBC News
Stuck in the passenger seat: Women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia
A new campaign asking for the right for women to drive in Saudi Arabia has attracted more than 11,000 signatures in support.
The
campaign has set 26 October as a day for Saudi women to take to the
roads - in defiance of the informal ban on women behind the wheel.
In a sign of how pervasive online social networks have become in Saudi Arabia, the campaign was started on Twitter.
It is the idea of the activist, Eman al-Nafjan, who set things in motion with
a simple message saying that Saudi women would express their feelings about driving on 26 October.
"There
is no justification for the Saudi government to prohibit adult women
citizens who are capable of driving cars from doing so”
Petition for women's driving rights
The hope is that women will come out en masse to drive on that day, she told the BBC.
Ms
Nafjan says the campaign is meant to be a grassroots movement open to
all Saudis - men as well as women - to show their support.
Influential Saudis have given their public backing, while
several videos of women driving have been posted on the campaign's website.
There is even a song linked to the campaign by the Saudi-born singer Shams, entitled It's Our Right to Drive.
Photos have also been sent in showing supporters' hands with parts of the online petition written across them.
The
first point in the petition reads: "Since there is no justification for
the Saudi government to prohibit adult women citizens who are capable
of driving cars from doing so, we urge the state to provide appropriate
means for women seeking the issuance of permits and licenses to apply
and obtain them".
It goes on to say that the Saudi government must
provide a valid and legal justification if it continues to deny women
the right to drive.
Many Saudi women are dependent on paid male drivers to get around
'Window dressing'
Women activists in Saudi Arabia say the issue of being allowed to drive is key to gaining other rights.
There
have been moves in this direction recently with women allowed onto the
influential Shura council for the first time, as well as having the
right to vote in the next municipal elections.
Read More Here
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Saudi Sheikh blasted on Twitter for saying women drivers ‘risk damaging ovaries’
Published time: September 29, 2013 17:43
Reuters / Fahad Shadeed
Comments
by a Saudi psychologist that driving affects women’s ovaries and can
lead to their children having health problems have outraged many women
in the conservative Muslim country, who are protesting a de facto ban on
women driving.
In an interview Friday with the sabq.org website,
Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan said campaigners should put “the mind
before the heart and emotion, and look at this issue with a realistic
eye.”
“Physiological science and functional medicine [found that driving] automatically affects ovaries and rolls up the pelvis,” the judicial and psychological consultant to the Gulf Psychological Association said.
“This
is why we find [that] for women who continuously drive cars, their
children are born with clinical disorders of varying degrees.”
Many Saudis have expressed their anger in Twitter, mocking the Sheikh’s
“great scientific discoveries.”
A special hashtag
“Women_driving_affects_ovaries_and_pelvises” appeared on the social network, and is widely used.
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Jorge Reyes
