Clinton: Muhammad Would Have Let Ladies Drive

World Net Daily ^ | Jan. 19, 2004

[Mean Daddy]

Speaking at a conference in Saudi Arabia, former President Bill Clinton told a Muslim audience Islam's founder Muhammad would have let women drive if cars had been around 1,400 years ago.

Clinton urged the Muslim kingdom, which follows the strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islam, to not resist the "tide of change" in the world and seek ways of broadening political participation "without compromising your faith and culture," Reuters reported.

Saudi Arabia bars women from driving and being seen in public with men other than family members.

A fatwa, or edict, issued by the head of the country's Department of Religious Research, Missionary Activities and Guidance in 1990 declared women should not be allowed to drive because Islam supports women's dignity.

Clinton said, however, Muhammad would have let his wife get behind the wheel.

"He probably would have made Saudi Arabia the first automobile producing nation on earth and put her in charge of the business," he said, according to Reuters.

The former president was speaking at a conference in the Red Sea port of Jeddah, where women delegates, covered in black robes, were separated in the meeting hall from the men by a screen.

In 1990, 47 Saudi women defied the fatwa and staged a "drive-in" in Riyadh, cruising around the capital for about 15 minutes. The women apparently were inspired by American female soldiers among the troops in the country during the 1991 Gulf War. As punishment, the Saudis lost their jobs and passports for two years, and religious groups distributed flyers denouncing them as "fallen women."

Clinton said Saudi policy "cannot be based in the long run on fighting change because you cannot fight the tide of change," Reuters reported.

Acknowledging a "tug-of-war" between "an old order and a new world" in Saudi Arabia, he called for education "which does not exclude religion but includes science, technology and political science."

The desert kingdom is facing a new wave of terrorist attacks by the al-Qaida network led by Saudi-born Osama bin Laden.

Clinton suggested Saudi Arabia could redirect aid channeled through religious charities tied to terrorism and use it for humanitarian projects such as providing drinking water in poor Islamic nations.

[Mean Daddy]

Next week former president Bill Klintoon give Pope John Paul II advice on birth control...

[prairiebreeze]

varmint whereabouts ping

[cyborg]

and then after that, he goes back to Haiti to say OOOPS maybe Aristede wasn't such a good idea.

[hometoroost]

If it weren't for Jimmy Carter, Clinton would be the biggest doofus ever elected to the office of the President of the United States.

[Diogenesis]

The real deal: Clinton is hunting for harem, again.

[Arkinsaw]

I wonder what would have happened if Bill Clinton had wandered into Mohammed's camp and told Mohammed that he should let the women drive camels and carts?

What would Mohammed have done if Bill had suggested that he not resist the wind's of change?

[Skip Ripley]

"He'd a let his wife drive and she would have been real hot, with a nice chest and big ol' box of cigars and none of them warts or other diseases..."

[vpintheak]

If this wasn't Slick Willy saying this, it would seem like it is good common sense advice. But since it is, you know he has got somer other motive, something like making people think of Klinton in the White house again or just plain old horny Bill looking for some Suadi tail.

[Utah Girl]

Good ole Bill is at it again, giving the Muslims advice. When will he ever learn?

[ikka]

"He probably would have made Saudi Arabia the first automobile producing nation on earth and put her in charge of the business," he said, according to Reuters.

Saudi Arabia had the chance to become the first automobile producing nation on earth, just like every other nation did.

However, when you are busy killing members of other tribes and generally being vicious with people, including your wife, you don't have time to build a literate, technologically advanced society.

And when you subscribe to a moon-worshipping backwards death cult, that goes double.

[explodingspleen]

Of course he would have. I mean, if you thought suicide bombers did a number, you should see my mom on the freeway.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

President Bill Clinton told a Muslim audience Islam's founder Muhammad would have let women drive if cars had been around 1,400 years ago.

More likely, the false prophet would have bedded the women and slain their husbands.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I wonder when the Fatwa gets issued...?

And, NO, I'm not wishing for it.

[Kirkwood]

What's he been not inhaling this time?

[F16Fighter]

I would have loved to have heard that Hitlery was the one who made this same nutty claim.

[Mr. Mojo]

Clinton said........ Muhammad would have let his wife get behind the wheel.

Not here in the U.S.

10 year olds aren't allowed to drive.

[LittleRedRooster]

Saudi Arabia had the chance to become the first automobile producing nation on earth, just like every other nation did.

I really don't see how they had any chance of producing an automobile since they didn't know about the wheel until well after the first Fiat was off the line.

[AZLiberty]

Yup, Clinton wears a bracelet with WWMD -- What Would Mohammed Do?

[Calpernia]

Is Hillary within our borders? Or did she step out too?

[prairiebreeze]

Heh!