Women who drive risk damaging their ovaries

[Ichingcarpenter]

RIYADH - One of Saudi Arabia's top conservative clerics has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom's male-only driving rules.

A campaign calling for women to defy the ban in a protest drive on October 26 has spread rapidly online over the past week and gained support from some prominent women activists. On Sunday the campaign's website was blocked inside the kingdom.
As one of the 21 members of the Senior Council of Scholars, Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan can write fatwas, or religious edicts, advise the government and has a large following among other influential conservatives.

His comments have in the past played into debates in Saudi society and he has been a vocal opponent of tentative reforms to increase freedoms for women by King Abdullah, who sacked him as head of a top judiciary council in 2009.

In an interview published on Friday on the website sabq.org, he said women aiming to overturn the ban on driving should put "reason ahead of their hearts, emotions and passions."
Although the council does not set Saudi policy, which is ultimately decided by King Abdullah, it can slow government action in a country where the ruling al-Saud family derives much of its legitimacy from the clerical elite.

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And remember women....
this is why you also need to ride side saddle

[BlueMTexpat]

1. I once had a Phys Ed teacher (in primary school)

who would not let girls throw balls or play team sports for the same reason.

As I recall, she was a "Christian" from the US South and she didn't last too long, even in 1950s rural MT. As for driving, any boy or girl who lived on a farm was driving from the time he/she could reach the pedals/see over the dashboard because they had to help with driving the grain into town for shipment to markets.

Needless to say, we took pride in doing everything this future American Taliban supporter told us not to. And we drove too. We had no trouble with having children, much to the contrary, in fact, based on the significant number of my contemporaries whose pregnancies often preceded their weddings.

This is pure, unadulterated crap that is not just part of the radical Islam represented by Saudi Arabia, but every single other conservative religion that maintains that women should be subservient to men. Screw him!