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BustedBlog
September 25th, 2007
Women Drivers
Don’t exist in Saudi Arabia. Geez.
We don’t expect an answer right away,” said Wajeha al-Huwaider, 45, an education analyst who co-founded the group. “But we will not stop campaigning until we get the right to drive.”
The kingdom follows one of the world’s strictest interpretations of Islam. Women in Saudi Arabia, a deeply patriarchal society, cannot travel, marry or rent lodging without permission from a male guardian.
Powerful clerics in Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s holiest shrines, say that allowing women to drive would lead to Western-style freedoms and an erosion of traditional values.
The driving ban applies to all women, Saudi and foreign.


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