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A Saudi Arabian historian trying to justify the nation's ban on female drivers says women who drive in other countries such as the United States don't care if they're raped and that sexual violence "is no big deal to them."
Saleh al-Saadoon claimed in a recent TV interview that women can be raped when a car breaks down, but unlike other countries, Saudi Arabia protects its women from that risk by not allowing them to drive in the first place, according to a translation posted online by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
"They don't care if they are raped on the roadside, but we do," al-Saadoon said on Saudi Rotana Khalijiyya TV.
"There is a solution, but the government officials and the clerics refuse to hear of it," he said. "The solution is to bring in female foreign chauffeurs to drive our wives."
That caused the female host to laugh and cover her face with her palm.
"Female foreign chauffeurs?" she said. "Seriously?"
Saudi women face serious penalties if they are caught driving, including lashing. Two women who defied the ban on driving last year, Loujain al-Hathloul and Maysa al-Amoudi, are being tried in a court that handles terror cases.
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
And then there is his suggested solution to the problem:
"There is a solution, but the government officials and the clerics refuse to hear of it," he said. "The solution is to bring in female foreign chauffeurs to drive our wives."
That caused the female host to laugh and cover her face with her palm.
"Female foreign chauffeurs?" she said. "Seriously?"
Saudi women face serious penalties if they are caught driving, including lashing. Two women who defied the ban on driving last year, Loujain al-Hathloul and Maysa al-Amoudi, are being tried in a court that handles terror cases.
Is that not wild? He wants to recruit 'foreign women" to drive Saudi women around? Which in his mind would give the "okay" to rape the female chauffeur "because she wouldn't mind"?
Folks, someone has seriously blundered here.
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
a reply to: n00bUK
Thank you so much for your advice. I'll put my blindfold on and go plant some flowers and bake a cake. No sense in trying to study what goes in the rest of the world.
originally posted by: n00bUK
So what? Are you from or live in Saudi Arabia? No? Then lets stop getting our knickers in a twist because this has # all to do with our countries.
We are not the world Police. Our countries are just as #ed as Saudi Arabia, its just we have a good media to distract us and make it out like everything's sweet.
There's something in your own community that needs your attention - Don't get dragged into agenda driven news that has absolutely no effect on your life
Sorry I can sound like a real dickhead at times, I do apologize lady.
Though you wouldn't have even been aware of this unless our media that is dehumanizing Muslims didn't show it.