Saudi Woman Killed Defying Driving Ban: Report

Dawn ^

[Zuse]

Suicide martyr?

[Red Badger]

Well, she just set back the cause for a hundred years...................

[Zuse]

The driving school could tell her how to start, accelerate and aim car, but... brakes are not halal?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This article seems to suggest that women can’t drive and that the ban is justified.

[Leaning Right]

Suicide martyr?

More likely killed by the Saudi religious police.

[miss marmelstein]

Sunday driver.

[Red Badger]

Like the Saudi 911 gang wanted to know how to fly the plane but weren’t interested in learning how to land it...............

[MUDDOG]

The car caught fire and she died

Stoning if she lived.

Talk about between a rock and a hot place.

[jughandle]

“Ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia....”

??

[miss marmelstein]

The writer Gertrude Stein refused to learn how to go into reverse with her many cars. Maybe it’s a woman thing...

[miss marmelstein]

I remember when people called the Soviet Union “right wing.” I remember Bob Novak on “Crossfire” going crazy over this.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

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

[b4its2late]

No mention of it being an SUV’s fault?

[DManA]

Which led every Saudi man to look at his fellow Saudi man in the eye and nod knowingly.

[Responsibility2nd]

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?

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

It’s okay. Even in more enlightened countries like the US, women don’t know how to drive. *ducks*

[Snickering Hound]

[Greysard]

But I wonder. Did having a full face burka have anything to do with this?

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.

[nickcarraway]

Why go back to the past, only look to the future!