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BREAKING: Saudi Women Driving, it is now official
June 24, 2018 at 4:52 pm
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Women were permitted to drive in Saudi Arabia, after almost a century of prohibiting females from driving in the kingdom:
Quote:Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving officially ends
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44576795
Saudi women are officially allowed to get behind the wheel, after a decades-old driving ban was lifted.
The change was announced last September and Saudi Arabia issued the first licences to women earlier this month.
It was the only country left in the world where women could not drive and families had to hire private chauffeurs for female relatives.
However, the move comes amid an intensified crackdown on activists who campaigned for the right to drive.
At least eight women's rights activists are being detained and could face trial in a counter-terrorism court and long prison sentences for their activism, human rights group Amnesty says.
Female activists, who fought for the rights of women and for their freedom, are in prison still.
This move is an obvious way out for the regime, and its religious institution from the economical and political issues.
Wahhabism is literally declining, the collapse of the religious grip was faster than the fall of a mountain of cards; looks like deep inside the people despise the Wahhabi religious institution and hate its guts, but nobody has the balls to say it out loud.
And those who say it out loud, get arrested and get butchered.
Congratulations, for the women of the Arabian Peninsula. But this right was not "given to you", you took it back from the hands of the regime, along with its dead, decaying religious institution.
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RE: BREAKING: Saudi Women Driving, it is now official
June 24, 2018 at 4:57 pm
It’s about bloody time.
Much more to be achieved, though.
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RE: BREAKING: Saudi Women Driving, it is now official
June 24, 2018 at 5:00 pm
The problem those dudes had, was that their mothers, women, did not clenched their legs when they were coming out.
It seems good news to me.
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RE: BREAKING: Saudi Women Driving, it is now official
June 24, 2018 at 5:01 pm
(June 24, 2018 at 4:57 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: It’s about bloody time.
Much more to be achieved, though.
Much much more. But blasts like this will happen more often, this regime is too old and the deadly Wahhabi/Royal grip will not hold for a lot of time; I assure you
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RE: BREAKING: Saudi Women Driving, it is now official
June 24, 2018 at 5:20 pm
I heard they have to put these on their cars.
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RE: BREAKING: Saudi Women Driving, it is now official
June 24, 2018 at 5:36 pm
...of course there is still a lot to do, but the first step was done ... sometimes a little spark is enough to start a big fire ... so I hope it's exactly that spark!!!
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RE: BREAKING: Saudi Women Driving, it is now official
June 24, 2018 at 6:52 pm
(June 24, 2018 at 5:36 pm)KittyAnn Wrote: ...of course there is still a lot to do, but the first step was done ... sometimes a little spark is enough to start a big fire ... so I hope it's exactly that spark!!!
like a chain reaction; lots of changes will follow. When people get one right, they will want more, and that is how it changes everything
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RE: BREAKING: Saudi Women Driving, it is now official
June 24, 2018 at 7:44 pm
Wow, what a break-through! There have been women flying airplanes since before WWII (Valentina Tereshkova flew into space in 1963) and now the Saudis have figured out in 2018 that they are capable of operating a fucking car!
Classic example of how dogmatic religion holds back progress.
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RE: BREAKING: Saudi Women Driving, it is now official
June 24, 2018 at 8:07 pm
It's a step forward
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RE: BREAKING: Saudi Women Driving, it is now official
June 24, 2018 at 8:34 pm
(June 24, 2018 at 7:44 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Wow, what a break-through! There have been women flying airplanes since before WWII (Valentina Tereshkova flew into space in 1963) and now the Saudis have figured out in 2018 that they are capable of operating a fucking car!
Classic example of how dogmatic religion holds back progress.
Not religion alone, but a hellish culture perfected by royals and warlord to subdue the locals, and religion -Wahhabism- is the decoration for it.
Notice the ironic light speed these people deserted their "religion of choice" with. In a matter of days, a custom that went on for decades changed 180 degrees, what else is fake about it, honestly?
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