Two days after Saudi Arabian women were granted the right to vote*, one woman has been sentenced to 10 lashes after being pronounced guilty of driving a car.
Via BBCNews:
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to 10 lashes for breaking the country’s ban on female drivers. The woman, identified only as Shema, was found guilty of driving in Jeddah in July.
…In recent months, scores of women have driven vehicles in Saudi cities in an effort to put pressure on the monarchy to change the law.
Reading this made me want to joyride down to City Hall and hug the first government official I could find.
*While Muslim women can technically vote starting in 2015, they still need permission from a male relative before voting.
WHY is this country our ally?
Well, she WAS going to drive down a cyclist.
I hope one day the Saudi Royal family meets the same fate as Gadhafi. Holed up somewhere getting shot at.
*Let’s be careful with what we call a “right.” Essentially, they may be allowed to express their desire for certain, limited municipal elections. The problem with measuring an advance of rights under an authoritarian regime is that it’s all smoke and mirrors. The only real advance comes when the regime is replaced by legitimate democracy with a guarantee of human rights.
As it stands now, though, even in OUR country, a leading contend for the GOP Presidential nomination, Mitt Romney, holds as his highest ideal that women must never hold authority over men. And, this doesn’t disqualify him for office why? See here: http://moreperfect.org/site/?p=1092
It’s interesting how we fund this country with our dollars in exchange for their oil, and which sadly promotes the sickening, and oppressive laws and regulations they implement on their society.
they probably won’t carry the sentence out. so let’s embrace the Sauds and give them kissies.
@1 Who else has the scratch to buy $60 billion worth of our military industrial complex’s death machines?