Saudi women driving. Be picked up

Posted on 27-10-2013 at 14:57 by ricardo – 32 Comments”

Women with a autowens in Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world where they are not allowed to drive a car, were yesterday massively summoned to be behind the wheel. As a way of protest. Something where the authorities have not exactly served.

In the strictly islamic country is actually no legislation that women doesn’t allow to drive cars, there are simply no driving licences for them issued (planning to read). It would be harmful for them. A mindset, where yesterday’s not-so-massive action against it was conducted. According to various media, there are dozens of women behind the steering wheel of mannenbolides crawled, and then riding to shooting. Playful protest, they do it more often, and also an attention-grabbing way to the medieval mindset of the Kingdom to the jaw.

But in the past, several female protesters who ventured on the Lord’s roads to travel, this must pay for this with imprisonment or whipping. Also yesterday were a number of moving women in the cities of Riyadh and Jeddah were arrested. 14 in total, says the NOS. It is still unclear what punishment await them.

Nieuwsverslag of the moving ladies in Saudi Arabia on Autojunk.nl.

Let’s close with a light-hearted note. The Saudi comedian Hisham Fageeh has its own twist on Bob Marley’s No Woman No Cry, entitled No Woman, No Drive. Check the protestsong HERE.