Comments on: WILL WE EVER DRIVE ?

By: True Blood

True Blood — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:40:11 +0000

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By: Al-ameen

Al-ameen — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:37:04 +0000

WILL WE EVER DRIVE ?

I suppose change is the only thing that doesn’t change and its possible that womenfolk in saudi will get to drive sooner than later. May be it’ll take a generation. With these kind of laws that strangulate one specific group– also a creation of the creator, it seems they will put prophet’s womenfolk behind the bars if they’re alive today.

By: nyla

nyla — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:16:03 +0000

i just have a few points and questions:

1)lots of women who dont drive in saudi go for vacation and drive outside of saudi, and DONT get into accidents etcetera. so they ALREADY know how to drive.

2)insurance companies all over the world have done loads of research to save their own money, and give WOMEN DRIVERS lower premiums on the basis that women drivers are statistically proven to be safer and have less accidents

3)if the idea was to makesure the mehrem is with u, which, ok, on various levels, can be argued as justifiable, for arguments sake, why not make that the rule? that women can drive provided theres a mehrem around. what does driving have to do with anything? women were allowed to ride camels and horses right? or did they have to WALK through the desert on foot?

4)now that these recent reforms have been past, though they are still working out the infrastructure (ie: women only police stations, women only driving schools, blah blah) on a realistic time frame (not the non the nonsense euphemised for the public to think they won and shutup) for this plan to be implemented?

By: Elinor (Iran)

Elinor (Iran) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:32:19 +0000

Michael,
It is not even easy to make a cartoon out of it, can you make the animation? In real life it is very hard, it might lead to women’s massacre in thousands, no one wants that. Even if there the ban is lifted, there will be the extremists who will not like a woman to drive, and that would indeed make it hard to begin with, but a gradual change might seem more practical dear.

By: Rawwaf

Rawwaf — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:08:06 +0000

Rasha

I contradict with you. That is not happen now.
Don’t dream.And don’t face the social need.

sorry for that >> but this is what I think.

thank you.

By: michael penck

michael penck — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:44:22 +0000

why is the moslem world so afraid of women? or do they forget, that aisha was a modern business woman, dealing with traders and caravans on her own – and was most certainly the bread winner of her family. just learn how to drive and then appear on the road by the hundreds and have a blown up relative sitting in the back of the car… put on a mustage !
and do not forget: when god created man, she was only trying….

By: elinor(Iran)

elinor(Iran) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:43:20 +0000

Drive ladies drive
Things are changing, when the time for change arrives, it is hard to control to speed of change, I do not wish to blame any one in particular for the rights denied, this is the form of life a group of people in a particular place, which will change gradually.
I was listening to Mrs. Clinton talking about a 95 year old American woman who apprached her in her campaigan, telling her When she was a minor in the USA, women didn’t have the right to vote, now she wanted to live as much as to see a woman will lead the white house.
Here in Iran girls stand outside of football stadiums. They are crazy for football, they cannot enter to cheer.
Oh this is a good one, listen,
I mean this is a question in fact. In Iran, the punitive charged for a Man being murdered intentionally or unintentionally is a money exactly double the punitive charge for a woman ( I mean the money the killer is charged with, which he is supposed to give it to the kins of the deceased). Then the punitive charge for mutilation or damaging one testicle of a man is two third of the punitive charged for a Man being killed.
Now one man’s testicle equals how many women? ( very sorry to state this, but this is true honestly)

By: ASE

ASE — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:20:35 +0000

I guess these are two examples of the culture conflict, where we should realize our paradigm and perspectives to not miss-lead or snub us into miss-understand or miss-interoperation of OTHERS.

The CORE VALUE of Human Rights is about the freedom of making choices. Influencing others, brain washing and contrived propaganda are examples of totalitarianism & dictatorship.

By: ASE

ASE — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:17:07 +0000

You keep mentioning change by invasion or civil war. Nobody is proposing such drastic means. There are plenty of examples in history where change came as you say “from within” and not by violent means. So let’s drop that from the rhetoric. In this particular example the women of Saudi Arabia are the ones who will need to force the change. They just need to organize. They DON’T need to be told it’s not the right time.

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:46:10 +0000

Are you saying that women are fundamentally less capable of driving? Or that it’s simply a short term learning curve problem?


Gary,

Abolutely no. Simply I meant, they will double the load on the roads,…

I know it’s not an intellectual reply, but Abdullah’s post above is the most moronic justification for treating women as second class citizens I’ve ever heard.

Human rights are human rights. I don’t distinguish between how we treat our daughters and wives and how we treat other human beings

I guess these are two examples of the culture conflict, where we should realize our paradigm and perspectives to not miss-lead or snub us into miss-understand or miss-interoperation of OTHERS.

The CORE VALUE of Human Rights is about the freedom of making choices. Influencing others, brain washing and contrived propaganda are examples of totalitarianism & dictatorship.

(Law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law).

Gary,

I wish I make it simple and clear this time.