September 27, 2017, - 10:34 pm
Saudi Women Can Now Drive? NOPE. The Story’s BS – Here’s Why . . .
Headlines all over the world are blaring that Saudi women will now be able to drive. Bullcrap. Don’t believe the hype. Even though the Saudi King and Crown Prince have decreed it, it’s a head fake. And here’s why . . . .
On Tuesday, Saudi King Salman and Crown Prince Muhammad pretended to the world that their Kingdom is “liberalizing.” They announced that women in their country would be allowed to drive. But they won’t be.
It has never been official Saudi law that women can’t drive in the Kingdom. But women who applied for licenses were rejected and didn’t get them. And women who drove were arrested. The theory is that women who drove would be immodest and whores and have contact with men who weren’t relatives and sleep around. Also, it was (and still is) thought that women getting any taste of freedom and liberalism would demand more and more and more until Saudi Arabia became the Red District in Amsterdam.
And that’s why, even if the Saudi royal rulers follow through on their promise to allow women to drive, they still won’t be able to drive. You see, it is and remains law that Saudi women cannot go anywhere without a male guardian–usually an adult male family member. Salman and Muhammad haven’t announced any plans to change the male guardian rule. So while Saudi women may be able to drive, they really won’t be able to do so freely and independently. They will only be able to drive with a male guardian . . . if and when the male guardian is available and willing to go along. The Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. claimed that the male guardian rule won’t be enforced for female drivers, but most Saudi authorities and those close to the royals say this rule remains in effect, and Saudi police won’t look the other way except on an “ad hoc” basis (whatever that means).
And there’s more.
Yesterday, when the Saudi government announced the alleged change allowing female drivers, the government also announced the change won’t actually go into effect. They say women won’t be free to drive until June 2018. And even then, that actually isn’t a certainty. The Kingdom will first put together committees to study the “feasibility” of the matter. If this were a done deal, why the need for committees to “study” it? What’s to study about allowing women to drive?
So, wait until June 2018 and see if women are actually allowed to drive . . . alone . . . wherever they want . . . without a male guardian.
Or, rather, don’t hold your breath.
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Oh, one other thing: even if women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to drive freely and alone, one thing will be evergreen: they still hate Jews and want to wipe ’em off the map. And Christians, you aren’t so high on their list, either.
Driving privileges won’t change that mindset. Count on it. This is a country whose population is dominated by Bin Laden and ISIS supporters and comrades-in-jihad.
When a woman on the streets of Riyadh can freely say, “I support Israel and condemn Muslim honor killings”–or even just, “the Holocaust happened”–and go unharmed thereafter, then we will know Saudi Arabia is liberalizing.
Until then, nothing has changed. And it probably never will.
Tags: Crown Prince Muhammad, Islam, Islam and women, King Salman, Saudi Arabia, women driving in Saudi Arabia
Perhaps I’m being overly conspiratorial, but I’m wondering whether there might be a broader purpose to this propaganda — such as being the prelude to a new ‘peace plan’ by the U.S., or using this ‘progress’ as an excuse not to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
Little Al on September 28, 2017 at 6:02 am