CBC.ca | The Current | Women2Drive Day in Saudi Arabia: "Women2Drive Day in Saudi Arabia
Saudi women, start your engines. A campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving gets underway today. We speak with a woman who's risked her safety to take the wheel twice and find out what's behind the road rebellion."
Ah, the so forward looking modern world of Islam and the Arabs. I often wonder that had they not barrels of the black stuff under their sandy feet...
Lets have a non alcoholic pub quiz. How many religious denominations are to be found in Arab countries? Now, you can't be counting those that were there long before the Arab tribes pitched their tents (around the 7th Century). Nope. No church spires, Hindu or Buddhist temples in the gulf states then. It's funny that they get very shirty when then want to build a Mosque right beside ground zero and it's suggested to them that it's a tad insensitive around that spot. But they expect and demand that we infidels in the non Muslim world pander to their every whim. And aren't they always banging on about how tolerant Islam is? Well, perhaps once upon a time it was. When a university was founded in Harran in the late 8th and 9th century and was a centre for translating works of astronomy, philosophy and medicine. Women were first admitted to Islamic universities hundreds of years before we in the west let them in. But the Saudis with Wahhabism, (think Fascist and you're not far wrong) are not wanting that kind of stuff. No, sir. At first, it's just a local start up company, but now the Wahhabi philosophy is very much exported internationally and it's persuasive influence can be found in the most unlikely of places. Marketed vigorously by Al Qaeda along with many lesser known brands, it's not going to go away so long as it's bank rolled mainly by the Saudis and it's twisted philosophy kinda tolerated in many Mosques in the West that are sympathetic to it's creed.
