'End of virginity' if women drive, Saudi cleric warns

'End of virginity' if women drive, Saudi cleric warns



A report in Saudi Arabia has warned that if Saudi women were given the right to drive, it would spell the end of virginity in the country.

The report was prepared for Saudi Arabia's legislative assembly, the Shura Council, by a well-known conservative academic.

Though there is no formal ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia, if they get behind the wheel, they can be arrested.

Saudi women have mounted several campaigns to try to overturn the ban.

Aside from the practical difficulties it creates, they say it is also illogical as in trying to keep them under family control and away from men, it actually puts them in daily contact with a male driver.

The issue has received huge international attention.

Some Saudi women feel it has attracted too much interest, obscuring other equally important issues.

As part of his careful reform process, King Abdullah has allowed suggestions to surface that the ban might be reviewed.

This has angered the conservative religious elite - a key power base for any Saudi ruler.

Now, one of their number - well-known academic Kamal Subhi - has presented a new report to the country's legislative assembly, the Shura.

The aim was to get it to drop plans to reconsider the ban.

The report contains graphic warnings that letting women drive would increase prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce.

A Saudi woman who has campaigned for women drivers told the BBC that the report was completely mad.

She said the head of the Shura had assured women campaigners that he was still open to hearing the case for lifting the ban.

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Man that is the supidest argument that i have ever heard for not driving Ho my god please save the world from lunatics like this guy

How stupid can the Muslim Wahhabis get?

They should not also ride camels, since the bumps can end their virginity!

Ban camels in Saudi.

Total idiots and to believe that this will be believed by the Muslims out there.

i gusse the sky is the limit my dear sir or rather the core of the earth may be

Virginity is lost in the back seat, not the driver's seat.

In the first place, in a cloistered society, they are so frustrated that virginity can end within the their close relations!

These people are the biggest frauds.

Only those who are wild require to be restrained!

wat a shot man,ultimate comment

Excellent analysis.

That would means that Saudis are the only straight persons in the world since everywhere else women drive.

The world is thus all homosexuals, prostitutes, divorcees and prono lovers!

Well done Saudi!

Good that you confine yourself to camels!!

Their minds are so narrow, you could smash atoms through them.

Did the cleric say, they might even get pregnant?

yes they can.When some men masturbation in park,their semen fell on flower pollen. Then that pollen flew in air. Saudi women driving car, that pollen enter her car from AC vent.she inhaled that .she get pregnant. So saudi mullahs are not that fool,you know



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A country where threesomes, foursomes ... upto n-somes are legally valid, along with paedophilia, why should virginity be a problem?

These type of idiotic religious diktats is what makes the educated, intelligent and rational Muslim most embarrassed to face the world\ and leave them squirming.

No one, no matter what one's religion maybe, can accept such gross stupidity as an edict from God or his representative on Earth!

the country where statistics of women are not published. guess how much these women may be bearing. slavery is approved(unofficially, there). women as booties.. no value for women except for one use. virginity! well first question the abuse they bear in their own houses.

in short, countries like pakistan,saudia are using religion as a weapon to suppress women. any doubt? a woman cannot complaint if She is abused(raped), since it needs two men as witness for shriah to approve it as genuine case! woohoo1