Daniel Akill-Attieh's Blog | 350: SAUDI ARABIA QATIF WOMAN ARRESTED AND DETAINED FOR DRIVING

Dear Readers and Fellow-Apes; 2008 was a Murky and Hapless Year! Let us hope that 2009 does not turn out to be even More Murky and Hapless!

I intentionally did not wish you a Merry Christmas, because Christmas is another story for another Posting at another time; and I do not wish you a Happy New Year, since I believe that ONLY FOOLS ARE, OR CAN BE, HAPPY ALL YEAR ROUND. I do, however, wish all of you A GOOD YEAR! With a little Good in one's life, one can be a little happy, which is all one can ask for in one's short sweet dream one calls a life-time. BY GOD AND SATAN!

A Jack of many trades and master of all; I am honest to the core and I hate lies, deceits, pretensions, hypocrisy, treachery, betrayal, and stoic compliance; and I despise – and actually pity – Human-Apes who follow-the-herd-or-pack

I expose and reveal the lies, deceits, pretensions, hypocrisy, treachery, betrayal, and blind, deaf, and stoic compliance, and Human-Apes who follow-the-herd-or-pack; I tell or write the truth; and I say what I mean and mean what I say

I fear nothing; least of all, death

If I must fear anything at all in life, then let me fear what I think and know of myself; because, in the end, one’s knowledge and opinion of oneself is what counts most. All the world may think and believe one is such and such, but one knows one is such and such. Also, I like to look in the mirror and like what I see and know about me.

I invite comments, remarks, criticisms, and even insults – so long as they are straight to the point, in order for me to correct or adjust myself accordingly. What I do not welcome and won’t accept or tolerate is HORSE-SHIT!

Dear readers and felow-Apes; with every page, every report or article, every paragraph, every sentence, every word, and every letter; I thank you for taking the trouble and the time to read My Not-So-Humble Comments.

« Previous Post Next Post »

350: SAUDI ARABIA QATIF WOMAN ARRESTED AND DETAINED FOR DRIVING

22 August, 2008

SAUDI ARABIA QATIF WOMAN ARRESTED AND DETAINED FOR DRIVING

AKI-Adnkronos International via Yahoo! News Tuesday 12^th August 2008

QATIF: The Saudi daily, Okaz, reported that the Religious Police – agents from the Committee for the Promotion of Vice and the Prevention of Virtue – spotted and arrested a woman in the region of Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia for driving a car after other men had reported the woman. The woman was later released after her family had posted bail, and will now be put on trial. There is no law in Saudi Arabia that prevents women from driving. However, fatwas or religious edicts, have been issued by Wahhabi scholars and clerics saying it is sinful for women to drive. Conservatives argue that if women were allowed to drive, it would lead to women being able to mix freely with men, then later to corruption and the destruction of family values. Daniel: They are mixing well enough; no sweat! As for corruption; Saudi Arabia is one of the most corrupt countries in the Arab and Arab-speaking World – if not the most corrupt!

Saudi women have been continually pushing to be allowed to drive, and have asked the government to make reviewing the ban a priority. On 23^rd September this year, a group of civil rights activists will formally demand that the government reinstate the right of women to drive. The date also marks Saudi Arabia's Independence Day. Daniel: Some Independence: independence for the men and dependence-in for the women and girls!

In 1991, a group of 47 women activists challenged the ban by driving through the centre of the Saudi capital Riyadh in protest. They were arrested by the religious police but later released. However, some were then suspended from their university jobs for one or two years as punishment. Read my postings: 78 / 126 (read it to the end) / 132 / 133 / 139 / 181 / 183 / 198 / and 224. If you’ve read them then all is well and good.

Posted by akill 16:35 | General | Comment(2) | Permalink