Understanding the ban on women driving in Saudi

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Malaikah said:
Because it isn't a 'few'... it is a lot!
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Are they not dealt with? I thought death or whipping were a deterrent? Obviously not working! - It's like in the UK, if men get rowdy & they tell the women to stay indoors and not venture outside. You see that happening? lol there would be riots all over the joint.

Filter these animals out and deal with them in such a way, they'll never sexually harass a woman again! :raging: :raging: :raging: :raging:
 
But, see, the thing is, if there's a lion loose, you don't put the humans in a cage, you put the lion in the cage. The human is protected in both cases, but if you lock the human up, it's not fair to them.
 
Malaikah said:
Because men harassing girls in cars (even when they are not alone) is COMMON! Men harassing women for a word they accidentally over heard is not.

Welcome to the real world. :rolleyes:
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Well, it seems you live on the wrong place. Where I live, nearby all men are gentlemen and most women also drive, even alone.
And even better, most bus drivers in public are women. What you say about men haressing women in cars are just third world countries.

This is the real world too ! Coexistance in traffic between men and women exist, you just have to come out of your cocoon

Peace
 
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Woman are only good at driving 1 thing.

You are wondering "What might that be?",.. right?

..Women are only good at driving men crazy..

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* Ducks *
 
AvarAllahNoor said:
Are they not dealt with? I thought death or whipping were a deterrent? Obviously not working! - It's like in the UK, if men get rowdy & they tell the women to stay indoors and not venture outside. You see that happening? lol there would be riots all over the joint.

Filter these animals out and deal with them in such a way, they'll never sexually harass a woman again! :raging: :raging: :raging: :raging:
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the same reasoning is like saying - not everyones gonna be fornicating all over the places so let men and women go places secluded.
all men are not going to molest women but we all are commanded to cover. etc etc
in islam all are protected and all means to what is wrong is barred.
and so for that country with the way it is, theres a law.


In Prophet’s (peace be upon him) time, women rode their horses and camels.
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with all due respect this is a totally different issue and not comparable. :?
 
crayon said:
But, see, the thing is, if there's a lion loose, you don't put the humans in a cage, you put the lion in the cage. The human is protected in both cases, but if you lock the human up, it's not fair to them.
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Actually the humans are locked up (i.e. run to safety) until the lion is taken care off.. your analogy doesn't work...

guyabano said:
Well, it seems you live on the wrong place.
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What does where I live, or where you live, have to do with anything? We're talking about Saudi Arabia!
 
Malaikah said:
No.

The one reason I am getting 'defensive' is because I know many people (mostly women) who live/lived in Saudi and they have all told me that the ban is needed, and that the society isn't ready for the change yet.
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ok. it is a tendency i have noticed before in other threads about KSA.
i still don't understand why the saudis cannot control the behavior of men. what are the religious police for?
 
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Actually the humans are locked up (i.e. run to safety) until the lion is taken care off.. your analogy doesn't work...
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Okay, fine, the humans run to safety. Do they never leave their houses now? They do, but only when the lion is taken care of, right? The problem is they're not trying to control the lion!! Nothing is being done to stop the men from being idiots! Or if they do decide to do something, it's once every 100 cases. It should be one of their TOP priorities, but it's not. Call me crazy, but in my opinion, stopping men from harassing women comes way before banning red flowers. And I'm sure many people agree.

So until they've figured out how to properly sort out their priorities, women are stuck immobile, and men continue being jerkwads.
 
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Faizah said:
Actually, it is the right of the Govt. to judge what is the greater good for society.
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It's not a 'right', but it is a responsibility. The important bit, though, is "to judge what is the greater good for society". That will always be a matter of opinion, of course, but mine is that they are not doing that. The judgement is based on simple sexism, not "the greater good of society", whatever excuses may be attached to it.
 
Well what does it matter, they are allowing women to drive, so what's the point in bickering, when we don't have any say in the outcome! :D
 
Unfortunately nothing has been confirmed yet, it's just hearsay.
 
I hate the way Saudi Arabia is running their country and the idiot men out there who is causing big problems. I remember when I was little and we had a horrible driver driving for us, we are heading from work to home when all of a sudden a car with young men driving in it started harassing my grandmother. She was wearing Hijab and they were driving fast and honking and screaming and laughing at her before they zoomed right after us. Other nights we saw driving and drinking and the car was zooming right and left very fast almost causing an accident. We reached home alive and safely, Al-hamdolilAllah. What are they doing drinking anyways? It is illegal to drink in Islam..Saudi Arabia is a non-stop hypocrisies.
 
^Bro, drinking is illegal in Saudi... There are hypocrites every where, it isn't a Saudi issue only.

Anyway, your example of men shamelessly harassing your grandmother really goes to show why the law was put in place in the first place.
 
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This thread has not shown any promise of being beneficial. In fact, the only thing beneficial was the original post. JazakAllaah khayr sister Malaikah. I think this thread is only going to head in the direction of reviling Muslim rulers, which is not permissible (please see the methodology section), as well as speaking without knowledge.

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