Posted on 05/09/2014 12:40:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Saudi woman was killed in a car crash in the capital Thursday as she defied the kingdom’s long-standing ban on female driving, local media reported.
The woman, in her 20s, lost control of her vehicle and crashed into the wall of a youth club in Riyadh, according to the website of the local Al-Jazeera daily.
The car caught fire and she died, it said.
Ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive. However, they usually get behind the wheel in desert regions away from the capital.
Thursday’s deadly accident was not the first of its kind involving a woman driver. In January 2012, a female driver was injured and her companion killed when their car overturned in the northern Hael province.
And in November 2010, a woman driver was killed along with three of her female passengers in a similar accident.
Women in the kingdom who have the means hire drivers while others must depend on the goodwill of male relatives.
Women’s rights activists make frequent calls to challenge the ban and those who do so post online videos showing themselves behind the wheel.
In addition to not being allowed to drive, Saudi women must cover themselves from head to toe and need permission from a male guardian to travel, work and marry.
Suicide martyr?
Well, she just set back the cause for a hundred years...................
This article seems to suggest that women can’t drive and that the ban is justified.
More likely killed by the Saudi religious police.
Sunday driver.
Like the Saudi 911 gang wanted to know how to fly the plane but weren’t interested in learning how to land it...............
Stoning if she lived.
Talk about between a rock and a hot place.
“Ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia....”
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The writer Gertrude Stein refused to learn how to go into reverse with her many cars. Maybe it’s a woman thing...
I remember when people called the Soviet Union “right wing.” I remember Bob Novak on “Crossfire” going crazy over this.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
Winston Churchill, The River War
No mention of it being an SUV’s fault?
Which led every Saudi man to look at his fellow Saudi man in the eye and nod knowingly.
The woman, in her 20s, lost control of her vehicle and crashed into the wall of a youth club in Riyadh, according to the website of the local Al-Jazeera daily.
The car caught fire and she died, it said.
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Somewhere 11 million ragheads are going; “See? See” We told you so.”
But I wonder. Did having a full face burka have anything to do with this?
It’s okay. Even in more enlightened countries like the US, women don’t know how to drive. *ducks*
Probably not. It was lack of experience that killed her. You do not accidentally "lose control" of a vehicle in a country that rarely sees wet or icy roads. You have to go way too fast for that - a common problem of young people everywhere.
Why go back to the past, only look to the future!
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