و عليكم السلآمـ و رحمة الله و بركآتهـ
Women Will Not Drive Cars in Saudi Arabia!
Repeated appeals to the official authorities in Saudi Arabia to put an end to the ban on women being allowed to drive have been to no avail. Women will not be sitting in the driver's seat anytime soon, despite a huge number of text messages and emails calling for this by those who advocate women being permitted to drive.
All campaigns to remedy this situation have failed, and in my opinion this is as a result of a mistake being made by attempting to take a shortcut with regards to convincing the government to change its position on this issue. I personally believe that it is impossible to convince any government, regardless of one’s influence, of something without there first being widespread public acceptance of the idea. Those who oppose this idea base their opposition on the official rejection of this, as well as on religious and social aspects as well. It may be difficult for others, by which I mean those outside of Saudi Arabia, to believe that a large proportion of Saudi Arabian men and women are against the idea of women driving cars, especially as this is something normal and ordinary to them, and women also ride donkeys, horses, and camels. Those outside of Saudi Arabia believe that this ban exists in opposition to the will of the public, but we do not know if this is true, in light of the lack of polling information to reveal public opinion on this issue
و هنآ موضوع ثآني أسهل من اللي قبل ::
A group of women in Saudi Arabia have exposed their wish to lead a national discussion concerning the question of the driving licenses for women. It is planned that this event will take place in Saudi Arabia in the beginning of 2008.
The problem is that the Saudi Arabia legislation till present days does not allow women to drive cars. This question is being periodically discussed in the local social circles but the decision seems to be still far away from reality. The opposition of this "democratic liberty" consists of the religious persons, claiming that a car would allow them liberally travel across the country and meet other men without control of the relatives, what is unacceptable according to the strict Islamic laws.
In their turn, the activists of the women rights movement declare that there is nothing in the Islamic laws what would prohibit them to drive a car and lots of Saudi women are working in the governmental institutions and private companies just like men what is actually not prohibited by the Islamic laws. The initiators of the project, some of those are politics, say that in order not to raise up resentment of the population and not to raise up lots of problems, the practice of women driving should be first started in big cities. Such as Jedda and Al-Ryadh. In other districts it could raise unnecessary emotions
و هنآ كآن مقآل نشرهـ أحدهم عن هآلموضوع وفيهـ تعليقآت و آرآء للقرآء ممكن تستفيد منهـ ::
http://archive.arabnews.com/?page=7&...d=6&m=3&y=2005
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