Women behind the wheel is dangerous for their health

Posted on 29-09-2013 at 14:20 by maru – 23 Comments”

This is a very important medical advice from a Saudi sheikh. His goal: to ensure that women themselves control the car.

In the strictly islamic Saudi Arabia it is forbidden for women to drive cars. Ridiculous of course, so there are more and more veiled ladies, that the rules to their boot rags. Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan is not pleased with this development. To the women “to protect them from themselves”, he advises them to not get behind the wheel, but “mind before their heart and emotion to let go of”. Those who are not in keep can, brings (according to “scientific” investigation) damage to the uterus and the ovaries. Women who drive a car have according to him a bigger chance to have a baby with medical problems in the world.

Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan is not just someone who dares to call. The gentleman is a judicial and psychological consultant to the Gulf Psychological Association, is part of the High Council of Scholars, writes fatwas (legal islamic recommendations) and he advises the Saudi government. You would say that he is then he ought to know better, but alas. Except that his statements medically speaking complete nonsense, it is there in the sharia (islamic law) with no word about the banning of female drivers.

Or autonomous driving with a woman in the driver’s seat will be tolerated by the sheikh is not known. More than 11,000 feminists go, this technological development does not wait and signed an online petition to October 26, with z’n all the car packs. The movement wants the driving test for women and a license for the graduates. (Via Al Arabiya)