Saudi Arabia To Lift Ban On Women Drivers

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-20-2008 | Damien McElroy

[blam]

Geeze...next they'll want to wear clothes of multiple colors.

[BobL]

I’m sure that the men are hoping that the women are allowed to look outside their burka when they’re driving.

[Candor7]

Saudi Arabia To Lift Ban On Women Drivers>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

OMG. That is a big mistake. They have no idea what they are getting themselves into!

Women picking up guys and going burqua bashing at the local drive in theaters!

Their civilisation is doomed!

[Commander8]

Wow, and they did it without us having to have to bomb them!.

[Route66]

Even if the ban is lifted, it won’t do much good if any woman who chooses to drive is in danger of being attacked and punished by the zealots at large and if a blind eye is turned to those attacks.

Still, I’ll be positive enough to say it’s a step in the right direction.

[The Great RJ]

Next thing they might want to vote or something.

[John123]

Saudi Arabia is to lift its ban on women drivers in an attempt to stem a rising suffragette-style movement in the deeply conservative state.

Well, isn't that special!

[Grimmy]

Sounds like maybe someone organized a national “not now, I have a headache” campaign. Or, maybe they went with the Distributed Operations mode and broke deployed Nag Teams.

The Passive Aggressive Underground.

Keep it up and keep at it ladies. The lives of your countrymen depend on you sneaking up on them and tricking them into getting civilized.

[The Forgotten Man]

Look for a new advertising campaign by Geiko, out with the cavemen and in with the female sucide bomber/driver....

[Signalman]

Well that’s awful white of them.

[NY Attitude]

Next thing you know, the women will want a say in the political process. It is bad enough the way the men drive over there. Look for causalities to occur and more demolished cars along the roadside. Going to be a real problem for ER doctors. Hope that they have mirrors in the ER.

[driftdiver]

“Even if the ban is lifted, it won’t do much good if any woman who chooses to drive is in danger of being attacked and punished by the zealots at large and if a blind eye is turned to those attacks.”

And here I thought they only allowed women suicide bombers to drive.

[Joe Boucher]

Love to see what happens the 1st time a female Saudi causes an accident which injures one of the punk princes.

[blam]

Saudi Women's Rights Activist: Condition of Saudi Women is Worse than at Guantanamo

[Does so]

Dang!

This may impact my plan for separate US highways for male and female drivers. :-(

[The Electrician]

Government officials have confirmed the landmark decision and plan to issue a decree by the end of the year.

Well now, let's see... It's January right now. That gives them plenty of time to reconsider their decision, doesn't it...

Unless they are using a different calendar, but then maybe "by the end of the year" means by the end of some other, as-yet undefined year, such as "by the end of the year 3000", but not by the end of this year...

[dersepp]

I predict the women drivers will be seen as "easy" women, with the onus of trying to change the culture put on them by their patriarchs.

I predict a future of heightened honor killings to save the "reputations" of these women drivers and their families.

[jws3sticks]

It’s all Bush’s fault......

[Tribune7]

Bush’s fault.

[valkyrieanne]

We invaded the wrong country.