ZH: In an unprecedented step for a country where a sprawling monarchy has managed to cling to power in part because of its concessions to hardline conservative clerics, Saudi Arabia announced today that its King Salman has issued a historic royal decree granting driving licenses for women in the kingdom, meaning that women will soon be allow to drive – overturning a longstanding symbol of oppression in the Muslim world just days after President Donald Trump slammed the US ally’s human rights record during remarks at the UN.
The royal decree issued on Tuesday also ordered the establishment of a high-level committee of involving the ministries of internal affairs, finance, labor and social development. They will be tasked with studying the arrangements to enforce the new law.
“The royal decree will implement the provisions of traffic regulations, including the issuance of driving licenses for men and women alike,” the Saudi Press Agency said, according to Al Aribaya
According to the New York Times, the change which will not happen immediately, was announced both on state television and during a simultaneous media event in Washington. read more
I’m pretty sure that’s what started our downward spiral.
That’s a slippery slope, next they will want to vote.
Oh, Oh, the jeanie is out of the bottle.
Next women will be able to walk without a male relative, wife beating and slavery will not be allowed.
Leaving the 7th century and bursting into the 8th.
2 minutes after the announcement, traffic in the left lane was slowed to 5 mph below the posted limit by a car with its blinker forever was on
Or was it the vote?
I don’t think women are allowed to own cars in the kingdom.
That’s all well and good, but can they putt?
“That’s all well and good, but can they putt?”
They should be good out of the sand.
They will only be allowed to drive the Jews into the sea.
Jihadi Uber
Stick or Automatic Ululator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md7OvU5JIcI
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” Hillary 2020 Saudi Arabia ” This way they won’t even have to send Donations, She’ll be right there in their faces !!!
Brad, I don’t know if it is a coincidence or not but once they got the right to vote things started changing.
At least they can put their makeup on their burka before they leave.
Why can’t Helen Keller drive?
Because she’s a woman.
Oh, goodie. More drift racing crashes on liveleak.
Are the horns going to ululate, or will they be stoned to death for honking them?
Having been stationed over there for a year (20 years ago), I never thought I’d live to see the day when women would be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia.
This is almost as momentous as the fall of the Berlin wall.
When I was there, women were in the third row of seats, behind the males and sheep.
Heh heh, actually women can own cars in Saudia–just not drive them. Also, there is no law or even attempt in place to keep women from having driver’s licenses in other countries (individually, perhaps, but not on the whole).
OK, so my next question is this: How will they reconcile the dangerous practice of driving sans peripheral vision (with niqab in place)? They already require women to remove it for passport photos (for obvious security reason), and that existed before 9/11. So when women being able to drive meets up with those who refuse to remove the face covering, who protests first? The morals police? The more backward of the females in the kingdom?
How many male guardians will allow their charges to remove the stuff to get behind the wheel? It will be interesting to see the percentage of new licenses next June (when this takes effect), how fast the number ticks upward and the answer to the question: “Why aren’t there as many new licenses as there are driving-age females?” It really will be nice to be wrong on that part, though.
Also, if the lower percentages come from where I’d expect them to come from (EP, Makkah proper area, not Jeddah).
So many questions to watch and see the answers to!
Traffic court will now include face burning acid and/or clitirodectomy.
Exit question: Come next June, the race intensifies as observers determine if #1 and #2 slots (Iran and Saudia, not necessarily respectively) will switch spots in the contest of worst country for women.
Lisl – I, too, wondered about the visual obstruction and what husband or male family member was going to let her out of the house in the first place. lol
MJA – yeah! Remember that tool in Florida who tried to force authorities into allowing her to make her picture with her face covered? WTF is the point???
Are the Husbands going to let them in on the part where Gas makes the car go ?
Nice license plate you slipped in there…..
Saudi Arabia! Soon to join Sweden on The Right Side of History!
This may represent a good investment opportunity in the auto body repair sector (humor, ladies, ha ha). Am sure the gals here know how to keep it safely between the ditches.
Allah damn it!!!! What’s next, Goats?????
Ahhhhhh … so antics like that vid of the UK woman at the gas pump will become de rigueur in Saudi Arabia?
Well, couldn’t happen to a more deserving country.
izlamo delenda est …