Why It's Hard To Live In This Country

This would be funny if it wasn't true.  The especially sad part is that millions of Saudi men and women, who have never been taught to think for themselves, will BELIEVE this.

Also, not to mention, how dare they abuse science this way.  It's hard enough getting regular Westerners to take science seriously; with this garbage out in public calling itself science, human beings have such a long, hard, uphill battle toward progress.  Ugh. 

And I don't have the guts to post the article about how women are not supposed to use air conditioning because it might lead to someone thinking they were home alone and therefore sexually available (not that it would matter anyway, because if they get raped it's their own fault), because I would say things that the censors would not like.  

Women here are more abused than you can imagine.  This is real, folks.

Women shouldn't drive because it damages their ovaries and pelvis, warns Saudi sheikh

• Sheikh Salah al-Luhaydan said if woman drove they would damage their pelvis and their children could suffer 'clinical disorders'
• In 2011 Muslim scholars said a relaxation of the ban would see both men and women turn to homosexuality and pornography
• Women are banned from driving in Saudi Arabia
• Some defy the law - with one taking to the roads for four days continuously to protest for greater women's rights in the country
  

By Ted Thornhill
PUBLISHED: 16:17 GMT, 28 September 2013 | UPDATED: 10:37 GMT, 29 September 2013

 

A Saudi sheikh has warned women that driving could affect their ovaries and pelvises.  Women are currently banned from driving in Saudi Arabia and many have protested against the statute. However, Sheikh Salah al-Luhaydan has warned them that their health could be at risk if they get behind the wheel.

A sheikh has warned Saudi women - who are currently not allowed to drive in the country - that getting behind the wheel could damage their ovaries and pelvis

Sheikh Salah al-Luhaydan also claimed children of women drivers are born with 'disorders of varying degrees'

He told Saudi news website sabq.org: '[Driving] could have a reverse physiological impact. 'Physiological science and functional medicine studied this side [and found] that it automatically affects ovaries and rolls up the pelvis. This is why we find for women who continuously drive cars their children are born with clinical disorders of varying degrees.'


The comments come two years after a ‘scientific’ report claimed that relaxing the ban would also see more Saudis - both men and women - turn to homosexuality and pornography.  The startling conclusions were drawn in 2011 at the Majlis al-Ifta’ al-A’ala, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, working in conjunction with Kamal Subhi, a former professor at the King Fahd University.

In 2011 a report claimed that relaxing the ban on women driving would also see more Saudis - both men and women - turn to homosexuality and pornography

Their report assessed the possible impact of repealing the ban in Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world where women are not allowed behind the wheel.
It was delivered to all 150 members of the Shura Council, the country’s legislative body.  The report warned that allowing women to drive would ‘provoke a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce’.  Within ten years of the ban being lifted, the report’s authors claimed, there would be ‘no more virgins’ in the Islamic kingdom.  And it pointed out ‘moral decline’ could already be seen in other Muslim countries where women are allowed to drive.

In the report Professor Subhi described sitting in a coffee shop in an unnamed Arab state.  ‘All the women were looking at me,’ he wrote. ‘One made a gesture that made it clear she was available... this is what happens when women are allowed to drive.’  Women in Saudi Arabia have not been permitted to drive since the establishment of the state in 1932.  Hundreds of women have protested against the law - with several facing punishment after the got behind the wheel.

Several women protestors have defied the law and got behind the wheel, with many facing punishment as a consequence.  Shaima Jastaniya, 34, was sentenced to 10 lashes with a whip after being caught driving in Jeddah in 2011.  Another woman was stopped by a police patrol after driving six miles to collect her husband near their home in the town of Buraida.  As her 'legal guardian,' her husband had to sign a declaration that he would not let his wife drive again.  One woman took to the roads for four days non-stop in an act of frustrated defiance.  Housewife and mother Najla al-Hariri drove around the streets of the Red Sea city of Jeddah back in 2011 'to defend her belief that Saudi women should be allowed to drive.'  She said: 'I don't fear being arrested because I am setting an example that my daughter and her friends are proud of.'  She added that it was ridiculous she is not allowed to drive in her own country, despite the fact that she is an experienced driver, having driven for five years in Egypt and another five years in Lebanon.  At the time the mother was also offering driving lessons to women.

SAUDI AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Gender roles in Saudi society come from Sharia - Islamic law - and tribal culture. The law is followed strictly throughout the country, but many issues regarding gender equality revolve around culture, not religion.   In 2009 the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report ranked Saudi Arabia 130th out of 134 countries for gender parity.  Under Saudi law, all females must have a male guardian, typically a father, brother or husband who has rights over many aspects of the woman's life.  Women were previously forbidden from voting or being elected to political office, but women will be able to vote and run in the 2015 local elections, as well as be appointed to the Consultative Assembly.  Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving.  
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OK, I give in, here is the air conditioning article.  I will keep my rant in check (talk to me at Christmas if you want to hear it), but here is the info so you can read it for yourself. 

Saudi cleric: Prohibit women from using air conditioning

** FILE ** Muslim women pilgrims make their way to throw cast stones at a pillar, symbolizing the stoning of Satan, in a ritual called “Jamarat,” the last rite of the annual hajj, in Mina near the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 6, 2011. (Associated Press)

A man who claimed to be a Salafist-Wahhibist cleric put the word out on Twitter that women should not flip on air conditioners at home because it sends the signal they’re home and that could lead to moral depravities.  The cleric said “turning on the cooler ventilator is prohibited for women in the absence of their husbands [because] the woman’s act is very dangerous, and may bring about immorality in the society. When she turns the cooler on, someone may notice her presence home, and this might bring about immorality,” International Business Times reported.




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All right, you knew it was coming.  Here's the really nasty one that's been floating around recently.  In my book, this one goes together with the "If you see a woman working at a job, you are encouraged to rape her to teach her that her place is not in public but in the home by making her afraid to come out of her home" article, which I didn't post here.   Also there is the "Ten year old girl gang raped by five men, she is sentenced to 50 lashes, when defense attorney speaks out on her behalf she is given 150 more lashes."   It goes on and on.  This is the culture here.  These are the beliefs. 

As with the previous article, my rant is held in check for censoring reasons.  Because this is real.  It's not something on TV or a long time ago.  It is REAL.  Yikes, people.  Yikes. 

Islamic cleric decrees it OK for Syrian rebels to rape women

** FILE ** In this Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, file photo, a Syrian rebel checks an anti-aircraft weapon, in Maaret Misreen, near Idlib, Syria. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)

An Islamic cleric has cleared the path for rebels in Syria, who are trying to oust President Bashar Assad, to rape women, so long as they’re non-Sunni.  Salafi Sheikh Yasir al-Ajlawni, who hails from Jordan but who lived in Damascus for 17 years, sent a message via YouTube: It’s a “legitimate fatwa” for Muslims waging war against Mr. Assad and trying to put in place a Sharia government to “capture and have sex with” Alawites and other non-Sunni, non-Muslim women, Human Events reports. Mr. Assad is part of the Alawites sect.  In the video, the cleric called non-Muslim women by their Arabic term, “melk al-yamin,” Human Events reports. The term is from the Koran and refers to non-Muslim sex slaves, Human Events says.  This isn’t the first time Islamists have called for the raping of women.  A preacher in Saudi Arabi, Muhammad al-Arifi, sent forth a fatwa a few months ago giving jihadi fighters the right to have “intercourse marriage” with Syrian women they caught, and for that act to take enough time “to give each fighter a turn,” Human Events reports.