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Saudi Woman Detained for Defying Driving Ban

Saudi Woman Detained for Defying Driving Ban
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Authorities detained a Saudi woman on Saturday after she launched a campaign against the driving ban for women in the ultraconservative kingdom and posted a videotape of herself behind the wheel on Facebook and YouTube to encourage others to copy her.

Manal al-Sharif and a group of other women started a Facebook page called “Teach me how to drive so I can protect myself,” which urges authorities to lift the driving ban. She went on a test drive in the eastern city of Khobar and later posted a video of the experience.

“This is a volunteer campaign to help the girls of this country” learn to drive, al-Sharif says in the video. “At least for times of emergency, God forbid. What if whoever is driving them gets a heart attack?”

Human rights activist Walid Abou el-Kheir said al-Sharif was detained by the country’s religious police, who are charged with ensuring the kingdom’s rigid interpretation of Islamic teachings are observed.

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to ban women — both Saudi and foreign — from driving. The prohibition forces families to hire live-in drivers, and those who cannot afford the $300 to $400 a month for a driver must rely on male relatives to drive them to work, school, shopping or the doctor.

Women are also barred from voting, except for chamber of commerce elections in two cities in recent years, and no woman can sit on the kingdom’s Cabinet. Women also cannot travel without permission from a male guardian and shouldn’t mingle with males who are not their husbands or brothers.

The campaigners have focused on the importance of women driving in times of emergencies and in the case of low-income families. Al-Sherif said unlike the traditional argument in Saudi Arabia that driving exposes women to sinful temptations by allowing them to mingle with policemen and mechanics, women who drive can avoid sexual harassment from their drivers and protect their “dignity.”

Saudi Woman Detained for Defying Driving Ban

Through Facebook, the campaigners are calling for a mass drive on June 17. To encourage women to get behind the wheel, al-Sharif went for a drive on Friday as another activist filmed her. Posted on YouTube and Facebook, it has now garnered more than 11,000 supporters.

Saudi Woman Detained for Defying Driving Ban

Dressed in a headscarf and the all-encompassing black abaya all women must wear in public, al-Sharif said not all Saudi women are “queens” who can afford to hire a driver. She extolled the virtues of driving for women, saying it can save lives, and time, as well as a woman’s dignity. Al-Sharif said she learned how to drive at the age 30 in New Hampshire.

“We are humiliated sometimes because we can’t find a taxi to take us to work,” she said.

Saudi Woman Detained for Defying Driving Ban

On their Facebook page, the group says women joining the campaign should not challenge authorities if they were stopped and questioned, and should abide by the country’s strict dress code.

“We want to live as complete citizens, without the humiliation that we are subjected to everyday because we are tied to a driver,” the Facebook message reads. “We are not here to break the law or demonstrate or challenge the authorities, we are here to claim one of our simplest rights.”

Comments (197)

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  • Batjak456
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:44pm

    OK…
    I need somebody to take a bit ‘o’ time to explain to me just exactly…kinda’…what sorta‘ ’universal truth’ or
    maybe even what teeny-tiny little ‘nugget of wisdom’ folks like me (ESPECIALLY us “infidels”) are supposed to gleen from this ‘From-On-High’ stuff.
    I mean, I don’t want to miss something here…we‘re talkin’ about ALL the future generations.
    I certainly wouldn‘t want an epiphany to ’fall through the cracks’.

    PS I had NO idea that Allah invented cars…waaay back ‘then’!
    To Self: “Musta’ fallen through the cracks.”

    Batjak456
    ALL GAVE SOME
    SOME GAVE ALL

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    • BBomber66
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:36pm

      Like your signature tag, “All gave some, some gave all.” It’s pithy. Reminded me of the chicken and the pig analogy of committment: “The chicken is involved with breakfast. The pig is committed to it.”

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  • __JDFLA__33772
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:31pm

    It’s The JEWs fault!

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:27pm

    Do the Saudi leadership really believe that they’re immune to the changes that are sweeping the region? Pushing women around, and bribing can only last so long. Unfortunately women are going to lose in either case of Saudi rule or the Caliphate.

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  • Liberal_Atheist_Critical_Thinker
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:23pm

    Well women can’t drive cars under a Islamic dogma, and women can’t be priests due to Catholic dogma.

    Sounds like both houses discriminate. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

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    • Kai Wan
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:47pm

      only a pos atheist would try to make this connection

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    • psst
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 8:29am

      Wow, the Pope must have sent you .
      Greeting Monsignor.Soo!! Will you be offering Communion this morning?
      Saaayyyy! How can you be a Monsignor if you are a nonthinking critical liberal atheist ?(why the redundancy Monsignor?)
      And are you critical of your Liberalism or your Atheism? What!! Both? Wow, a 2 fer.
      Aww! just having a joke w/ a troll.
      Glad to see you anyway. A reminder of why we have a communist Kenyan Moslem like Soetoro in office.

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    • spotster
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 1:38pm

      you are exactly the type of person we are coming for first…………moron

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    • hi
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 9:45pm

      Oh I know because 170,million of us are just clamoring to be priests!

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  • My2
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:22pm

    You go girl!

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:22pm

    The middle east is so barbaric, why we waste our tax dollars supporting these countries when we could be free to have our own oil is beyound me….Obama giving Egypt billions when all these creeps want to do is kill us…demoracy my rear………just more lies from liberals to further their communist agenda to take America down……….get rid of Obama and his card carrying communist before we get into World War 3.

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  • Redistributor
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:20pm

    um she’s hot.

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  • Realman30
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:15pm

    Maybe sharia law isn’t all bad.

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  • JCoolman
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:14pm

    Strength. Courage. This is what we should be applauding and supporting (freedom). Not a one time democracy movement (oppression).

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  • Carol in MA
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:13pm

    LOL….She learned how to drive in New Hampshire…how funny is that! It looks like she’s having fun…YOU GO GIRL!!!! :)

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  • Texas woman56
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:41pm

    These poor women. I feel so sorry for them. They are no better than slaves and treated worse. How horrible it must be to not have control of your own life. They go from the control of the father to control of the husband. They are treated like children and always have to have a male family member in charge of them. Sharia law is behind it all. Why would these men ever want to give up the full control they have of the women in their lives. They are kings and the women are their slaves and their faith supports they way they live.

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    • ghost-of-elvis
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:21pm

      that would be the religion of peace

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 11:26pm

      But the women of Saudi Arabia are educated .They are doctors ,lawyers and everything else and proportionately[so i heard] are better educated then american women.If they feel oppressed then they are oppressed.if they don’t then they are not.What is freedom but the absence of fear to live how you wish?Not how WE wish them to live.

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  • clockwatcher
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:39pm

    Mohammed wrote in the koran that women can’t drive cars but they are allowed to kill themself and others with a suicide bomb? No wonder they dirt bags are filled with rage. It‘s funny that Bin Laden was found with hours and hours of porn isn’t it.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:39pm

      Bin laden fought so his people would be free of american backed brutal dictators.His was a war of independence from american backed brutal unjust regimes and policies which benifitted the west but hurt his people.he was not fighting to implement sharia muslim theocracies on us or anyone else.That he watched porn and supported the arab uprisings in egypt exposes the right wing anti Arab genocical propaganda machine which indocttinates us with the false narrative that those terrorists are fighting to force us to convert to islam and wish to extablish a caliphate on the world.they wish to throw the U.S. out of those countries and to over throw corrupt regimes and yes they do favor 67borders for israael and even perhaps regimes where there culture is still preseved but they are freedom fighters in the true sense of the term and we are the unjust meddlers in their homelands resulting in regimes oppressing the people through torture and murder of any dissedents.

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    • crackerone
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:58pm

      @Colon Lady,

      STFU!!!

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    • TakeBackAmerica
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 12:09am

      go easy on her, she is off her meds again

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:37pm

    i bet the women on the left just cant wait to lose the right to drive, and to vote …………….hey wait, maybe thats not such a bad idea lol ( a joke for you moron trolls out there who need this type of explanation)

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    • Jhn'1
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:56pm

      I don’t know where you are from, but in the US, driving is not a “right”, but a privilege. One that the state can take away as they decide. At this time for infractions like multiple driving infractions, DUI, medical difficulties, or dropping out of school.

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  • kerf
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:35pm

    I wonder if NOW will speak up when the Muslim Brotherhood comes here and takes away their BMW’s. They don’t to get upset when other women around the world are abused and held in bondage.

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    • Moonbat
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:56pm

      As recently as March of this year, NOW again called on Congress to ratify the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. We‘re the only developed country that hasn’t yet done so. I don’t know any feminists or progressives that support the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia or anywhere else.

      I‘m sure there’s plenty we don’t agree on, Kerf, but let’s stand together when we do.

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  • ArmyGirl
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:32pm

    It is up to the women of these mideast countries to save their country and themselves, to stand up for their rights as human beings for dignity and respect.

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  • historypaper
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:30pm

    At first it looked to be a regular room. Our lodgings were being paid for by the State Department and the suburban railroad would deliver each of us directly to the lodge.
    Upon our arrival in the Washington D.C. area I noticed a lot of people standing around gazing at us from just about every direction.
    Once I got my actual lodge room I noticed that my room door didn’t lock. The long train ride was over and that real bed looked really good. Our first meetings with the White House and State Department officials were not until nine the next morning.
    My room phone rang and I could hardly believe that my dinner was ready and the President of the United States was waiting down stairs to welcome the National Journalist Winners to this important convention.
    From my end of the corridor I could hear the music and the singing and obviously it was going to be a great unexpected visit with the president.
    Full of curiosity I agreed to put on the camp shirt before I entered the camp dining area. There had to be 500 people waiting for the president inside.
    My table was complete with white bread, butter, sausage, sugar and surprising cigarettes.
    The serving employees were standing around looking at us, the same kind of gaze when we arrived.
    The loud speakers carried the message.
    Comrades, you like to write?
    Circulate freely as our prisoners.
    This prison house was made for you.
    Enjoy your food Comrades, you die in the morning.
    By fate comrades, you are condemned for what y

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  • Ceefour
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:29pm

    Ill prey for her but I don’t think Ive got much pull with Allah….

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  • Trying to Remain Calm
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:28pm

    The problem with the Muslim world is that half of their population has no voice. If the Muslim world is ever going to pull its head out of its proverbial ass it will have to start listening to its wives, mothers, sisters and daughters. Until then, expect more of the same; stupidity, insanity, lack of ownership of their problems (Blaming Israel and the West for all their problems.) and a world where every New Year’s Day heralds the start of Dark Ages.

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  • NEMATIC
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:28pm

    Sorry, I know I’m out of subject, but has the RAPTURE come yet?

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:34pm

      6pm …. roflmao

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    • LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:56pm

      Not yet .. I think the dude that started this forgot to calculate leap year into his prediction

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    • zman173rd
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:57pm

      crap!! you mean i’m gonna have a hangover after all ?!?!?!

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    • crackerone
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:06pm

      Think he added a bottle of Jack Daniels into the equation!

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    • debi3690
      Posted on May 26, 2011 at 6:59pm

      @ Nematic Nope, not yet. New date Oct 21 2011 This time for real…… God tweeted me the new date!!

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  • Linda_Callaway_FL
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:26pm

    Today the freedom to drive a car. Perhaps tomorrow the right to vote. Or are the Saudi men afraid of an informed, educated, enlightened and free female populace who can think and act for themselves?

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  • NEMATIC
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:24pm

    I wonder if Saudi Arabia is a safe place to drive, I mean accident wise?
    I don’t want to make any irrational conclusions, on this subject. I need more facts.

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    • LetUsReason
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:37pm

      I lived there for 10 years. Driving is actually pretty “normal”. Except once I did see a sheep sitting in the man’s passenger seat, while his wife rode in the truck’s bed. Ha! Egypt….ooph! Now that’s another story.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:27pm

      Let
      Maybe the sheep was his wife.

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    • jeffyfreezone
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:03pm

      The sheep was probably his FIRST wife.

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  • KickinBack
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:23pm

    Good for her. Kind of like the Rosa Parks of her culture.

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  • We Are Not Alone
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:23pm

    You go girl!!!!!

    If we don’t win the 2012 election, and sharia law is implemented, this will be us…. I hope the women in the middle east fight for our right to drive….. lol

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:51pm

      You may be joking but the reality is you are not far from the truth. I don’t remember where in the bible (OT) I read it years ago, but there is a prophecy reguarding the end days that describes women paying men to marry them or atliest letting them use their name. It had the thought of fear and urgency in it. If any of you know the actual scripture reference please reply and let me know. At the time I didn’t know what shiria law was.

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    • OLDBIKEFIXER
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:55pm

      Hmmm… wait a second. removing half of the drivers (and thereby, half of the cars) in America will give the lefty tree-huggers a new cause to rally around. Now we know why the lefties are always supporting Muslim causes!

      On the other hand, 50% fewer cars on the road means that the price of gasoline will likely drop. It also means that there will be 50% fewer idiots who don’t use turn signals, pull out in front of me, and talk / text while driving. Maybe this ain’t such a bad thing after all… I‘m just sayin’…

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    • JGerber
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:05pm

      Driving is NOT a right, it’s a privilege. Granted here in America women have the right to take drivers’ education and then take a written, and behind the wheel test. If a woman, or a man for that matter, fails either or both of the tests, she or he does NOT have the right to drive a vehicle. Unfortunately for the women of Saudi Arabia their government/religious leaders do not grant them the privilege of even learning to drive, let alone actually drive. These women should be working towards the separation of church and state if they do not want to be breaking any laws by driving. (I really don’t understand how Mohammad foresaw the need to ban women from driving.)

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    • shirelover
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:53pm

      Captain – The reference you are looking for is Isaiah 4:1. Read the next verse too, though, it is beautiful.

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    • PatriotsLikeMe
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:50pm

      Oldbikefixer–While you were imagining what it would be like on American roads with 50% fewer vehicles clogging them, were you imagining that it was the men who weren’t doing the driving? How’s that fantasy working for you now?

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:39pm

      @shirelover

      Yes that is it. Thank you. I‘m still not sure of it’s application but it’s the one I remembered.

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    • cassandra
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:55pm

      sharia is already in our courts

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 11:19pm

      It’s not oppression till the people there say it is. We justified wiping out indigenous american cultures on the grounds that they were “barbaric”..The Romans did the same under their empires.Imperialist powers always justify meddling with indiginous people [really when they steal their land[Israel] or resources ]on the grounds that they are morally superior people.A lot of people have died ,suffered and had their cultures destroyed by imperialist powers on the grounds that they were morally superior.Now we justify the countles deaths of men women and children in Afghanistan on the grounds that they oppressed women.The thing is unless they ask for help we have no business killing people for their own good.Again, culture is transmitted by women and when and only if those women want to change their culture ,should we medle with them.The Libyans are now asking us to help them overthrow a brutal regime but we are reluctant to do so and so too the Syrians who are being slaughtered every day.And I have been to Afghanistan[before the soviet invasion ]and it was so poor the was hardly any food and i saw children freeazng in the cold-the thought that we’re killing them now is horrendous to me.[the poorest people on earth-it was like going back thousands of years.]Stealing people to be used as slaves is not the same as indigenous women transmitting a culture of subservience to men to their offspring.One is coersion, the other is a cultural belief.

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    • PatriotsLikeMe
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 11:27am

      RoseEllen–stop the recording of “culture is transmitted by women.” Okay, so you took a sociology course, we get it. But what does that have to do with women living in a patriarchal construct that has it’s hands tightly around their throats? Don’t you imagine all these measures in the middle east, the restrictions on driving or even being seen in public without a male protector, the enforced wearing of burkas and hijabs, are measures males have instituted in order to weaken women thereby lessening their ability to do anything about their oppression? We know that women have been complicit in their own subjugation, yes, one has only to call to mind the trembling hands of an aged Chinese grandmother tightly binding and deforming the healthy feet of a crying 6 year old granddaughter. It does not follow that these same women have the POWER to change the pain and suffering instituted by the men who rule over them. It took 2 thousand years for that form of torture to be eradicated from China and I daresay it was because of women that it was finally repealed. Please do not believe that because they live in subjugation and terror, that they enjoy it. Don’t do them that disservice.

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:21pm

    http://space4commerce.blogspot.com/2008/02/cultual-thing.html

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:25pm

      Indigenois people are entitled to their backward cultures.The world does not belong to us.If one day those people want to come into western enlightened values then they will.It is none of our business.And as the uprisings taking place there show, it was our supporting these brutal dictators that impeded the growth of enlightened values from taking place there[any dissenters would be tortured ,imprisoned or killed].This served our cheap oil intersts and cold war and military bases interests and support of islraeli expansion political interests.All those people had to cling to was their “religion” and our meddling there helped ****** their progress.Our hands are not clean.But also it is true that we too had to struggle for every right that we now have.Culture is transmitted by the women and when the day comes arab women want to change their culture they will.if they don‘t that’s their business too.Aparrently there is a movement afoot to do that.But lest we feel too morally superior, there is a logic to their culture.A desert culture in a preindustialized world has good reason to allow men to take on more than one wife and not allowing women to drive was seen as a way to protect women from abuse by males.[a relic from the days of being srtanded in the desert and at the mercy of the good will of whoever came by ,perhaps]We too have ample occasins where women are abused by men when women are defenseless

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    • ghost-of-elvis
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:18pm

      …wow….really??…. probably the craziest thing that I’ve heard all day..thanks for the laughs rosie

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    • crackerone
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:34pm

      @ Rose Ellen!

      You have been outed!!!!!!!!!!!!

      You are the colon lady!

      Diarrhea

      Constipation

      Gas

      Bloating!

      STFU!

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    • crackerone
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:40pm

      @MOSSBRAIN

      Is this Elizabeth Ann Rogers?

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    • PatriotsLikeMe
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:41pm

      Rose Ellen–I resent how you say what happens in Saudi Arabia is none of OUR business. You may not want it to be any of your business but do not presume to know what I do or do not want my business to be about. If I want to learn about the plight of women from any other indigenous population and actually lend my support in whatever way I believe may prove helpful, I will. Obviously these brave, young Arab women are wanting to adopt our “enlightened” ways even while avowing love for their country and culture.

      As for your explanation of why this patriarchal oppression works for desert dwellers, I would wager that none of these women taking part on June 17 have spent much time in a tent lately. It doesn’t follow that women are safer when you take away their ability to extricate themselves from dangerous situations. The 32 year old woman in the video said she had no ride home one night and that men were harrassing her in passing cars as she walked alone. Does that sound to you like safety? It’s bad enough that there are countries where men engage in this type of sexist degradation without American women–you know, all us enlightened types–trying to excuse or rationalize it.

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    • PatriotsLikeMe
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:44pm

      Rose Ellen–I resent how you say what happens in Saudi Arabia is none of OUR business. You may not want it to be any of your business but do not presume to know what I do or do not want my business to be about. If I want to learn about the plight of women from any other “indigenous” population and actually lend my support in whatever way I believe may prove helpful, I will. Obviously these brave, young Arab women are wanting to adopt our “enlightened” ways even while avowing love for their country and culture.

      As for your explanation of why this patriarchal oppression works for desert dwellers, I would wager that none of these women taking part on June 17 have spent much time in a tent lately. It doesn’t follow that women are safer when you take away their ability to extricate themselves from dangerous situations. The 32 year old woman in the video said she had no ride home one night and that men were harrassing her in passing cars as she walked alone. Does that sound to you like safety? It’s bad enough that there are countries where men engage in this type of sexist degradation without American women–you know, all us enlightened types–trying to excuse or rationalize it.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:51pm

      Yea ROSE, if they want to treat the women like slaves you don’t care at all, after all it’s their culture, right.

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    • NOTAMUSHROOM
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 11:07am

      Remember and never forget: These are the same women who raised the male children and transferred the culture to the men who became the 9/11 murderers.

      Or maybe they raise their boys to blow themselves up so they might be rid of them.

      Who knows?

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  • vic138
    Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:17pm

    So, mohammed wrote in the koran that women can’t drive cars? Wonder why he didn‘t also mention that they can’t be astronauts?

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:22pm

      I can’t believe that all those progressive women .. condone this backwards society .. are they crazy? … Yes they must be .. do you see this Whoopi, Joyless, and the rest? .. STUPID B’s.

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:23pm

      Off with her head!! Been to saudi Arabia.I saw a camel in the back of a Toyota pickup truck in the town of Dahran.

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    • chirodoc007
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:28pm

      Another Facebook victory. Self incrimination in a country with very little room for leniency — not a great idea. Remember the kid that decided to spread Graffiti in Singapore?

      Don’t piss off the men with the machetes and a penchant for beheadings. Remember, this is the religion in peace, I’m sure that they are just protecting the poor women from the stress of traffic in the desert.

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    • LetUsReason
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:34pm

      A couple things. (1) Dang, this girl has pretty solid English. (2) Her Arabic doesn’t sound like Gulf Arabic (Saudi Arabic). She almost sounds Jordanian to me. Anyone here speak Arabic and able to offer a second opinion? Bottom line is this girl seems to be upper class and to have been educated abroad. No wonder she’s defiant and courageous.

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:42pm

      And to think the US backs Saudi Arabia, sales arms to Saudi Arabia and pays Saudi Arabia to keep troops in Bahrain to protect Saudi Arabia….Strange isn’t it…..Now why would we go against our values, Constitution and principles to back Saudi Arabia who clearly does not keep our values and principles…….How do Saudi’s feel about Israel or Iran? Enemy of my enemy again? It’s a progressive mess…..

      Saudi Arabia is an interesting country needless to say and upon visiting one greatly appreciates the freedom our founders provided for us that we slowly have given away back to Government Progressives on both sides…

      All those looking for good info on the pushers of one world government, google Club of Rome….

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    • LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:44pm

      @ LetUsReason….it says she learned to dive in New Hampshire. so I’ll assume she spent alot of time in the states.

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    • Citizen
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:50pm

      False gods dont let you drive.

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    • Netsurfer2
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 5:51pm

      I cannot believe how dumb and unfair the government is over there! Not to mention the idiotic Lib’s here that condone their laws! Go’s to tell you why no one would ever want to live there!

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    • seeker9
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:12pm

      The reasoning behind the ban sounds like dems/progs rationalizing their behaviour.

      @Okie from Muskogee
      If you are from Muskogee, I am just north of you in Pryor. Cheers.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:22pm

      Off with her head!

      Why the hell cant liberal women in this country see what’s headed their way?

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:44pm

      @seeker9

      Born an Okie and family helped start town of Muskogee and still reside there but currently I live outside the city…I live close to Maize, south of it, and way out in the sticks. I’m not Amish either as you know Maize is Amish country but land does but against theirs…

      Pryor Creek, sad what happened to the city growth once the Google and Gatorade expansion stopped and Gatorade left so abruptly…

      Stay safe! 

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 6:52pm

      @Dustyluv

      You really believe this style of Government will come to the US? Or is it more likely a Progressive one world government will overthrow Saudi? I believe option B.

      @Netsurfer

      I agree the Saudi Government is oppressive…Which head of the progressive snake supports the Saudi Government with weapon sales, pays to keep a Naval fleet in Bahrain as well as train Saudi troops? I would say the progressive right…Progressive Left just acts like it doesn’t happen…

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    • crackerone
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:08pm

      I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a women who had her hands cut off, for driving a car!

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    • dizzyinthedark
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:23pm

      That’s it, here it comes! This will only fan the flame of hate the ruling class of the muslim world has for America. Probably will somehow twist it in their minds that we drove them to this!

      Love how they already know the men of Saudi Arabia are deviant though. On one hand they say they are doing the woman a service by ‘protecting’ their dignity, when they themselves have no dignity?! What?! Crazy political ideology, who would follow a pedophile? Sheesh!

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    • chips1
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 7:47pm

      BOMUSTGO:
      Did the pick-up have a “JUST MARRIED” sign on it?

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    • JoeBtfsplk
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:07pm

      All out war! Take their oil and piss on their graves.

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    • kenXIII
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 8:47pm

      i guess if these left wing fools are going to bring this on us at least we can ban some of them from driving

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:31pm

      better in a car than in public, burka up girls, for 40 miles of bad road

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:45pm

      Thats how they do it over there, Islam sucks.

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    • Jediusetheforce
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 9:49pm

      Keep’em in the kitchen I love home cooked meals.

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    • seeker9
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:13pm

      @Okie from Muskogee

      Amish women aren’t allowed to drive either, are they? Spartan life style, but Amish Cheese House has a web site??
      This town was hit hard by the recession. Just moved here from Baton Rouge after Katrina and Rita. Things were looking bright. But… Google’s data center is scheduled to go on line this year, but they have few employees. GatorAde plant is up for sale. It would be a hope and a prayer to find a buyer… maybe SodaStream? They’re growing so fast. Who knows? Stranger things have happened.

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    • vic138
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:29pm

      Hey rose-ellen (if that is your name), I’ve spent time in muslim countries and the women there are rarely allowed to leave their husbands homes and if they do then they have to be completely covered up. The men are allowed to have 3 wives (more if they can support them all the same, unless one is black) and spend all day trying to make money selling **** to foreigners or getting laid by tourists. Take another bong hit lady and then get some world experience.

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    • restorehope
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:29pm

      Women there should refuse to bear anymore children until they are treated as fellow human beings. I know they have been repressed for centuries, but it was understandable that they did not fight it because of being secluded from the rest of the world. But in today’s world, the media and the internet have shown these women what they are missing and how they are being suppressed. Why haven’t more of them risen up before this?

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    • seeker9
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:32pm

      @Okie from Muskogee

      Just occurred to me, the Amish approved motor vehicle is the farm tractor. And I have seen Amish women driving said vehicle to the local WalMart. (Had to correct myself since the world did not end today.)

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    • jzs
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 10:46pm

      Okie, you’re talking more than you should. You say, “I agree the Saudi Government is oppressive…Which head of the progressive snake supports the Saudi Government with weapon sales, pays to keep a Naval fleet in Bahrain as well as train Saudi troops? I would say the progressive right…Progressive Left just acts like it doesn’t’t happen…”

      Sure the “Saudi government is oppressive.” It’s an inherited dictatorship, and a cruel and vicious one, lead by the royal Saud family (hense the name “Saudi Arabia”). For fifty years or more the US has been very close to the Saudis for two reasons: they sell us oil and they have a stable government in a volatile region that our national security depends on (although the are an iron fisted dictatorship).

      My complaint about your posts is your constant references to “progressives.”‘ Progressives support the Saudis, progressives ignore their human rights, etc.

      Hardly Okie, given the relationship the US has had with the Saudis through the last 10 Presidents, not to even mention that Bush was closer to the family of Saud that most being an oil man himself.

      I can’t make any sense of your post. Please explain yourself. Especially given your, you know, disrespect for the children of David.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on May 21, 2011 at 11:29pm

      @CAT
      I really believe all of those women on the VOODOO-VIEW (except for Elizabeth) are CRAZY

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 1:46am

      @JZS

      Do you not understand Progressive Bush and Progressive Obama are both Progressive? The two headed snake would refer to the Progressive Left (Clinton) and Progressive Right (McCain). Progressive Left is the “handout” machine “democracy” fighters and Progessive Right would be the “War” machine “liberty” Fighters.

      Yes JZS Saudi Arabia is an oppresive regime which was helped established by us and now we back and support them….Just like all the other Sunni dicators Iran’s social war has toppled.

      Constitutionalist would take care of America….Progressives try to rule the world and put in dictaors…

      And no i do not disrespect anyone…Israeli’s are good people…I just do not lie and say God is gonna strke us down if we do not do this and this for Israel… I understand the Bible and history…

      Hope you can under stand this…..Let me know if you need further explaining

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 1:54am

      @Seeker9
      I see many tractors with woman drivers as you stated….I use to see a lot of horse and carriage but that is slowiy fading to the Tractor….It bothers me the tractors are allowed to drive the highway shoulder with kids in the back of a truck bed….I just don’t like that but hey, they do it…

      The Cheese house and Pantry has pretty good food…. I’m pretty sure the owners broke from the normal pactices of the Amish or got approval….Before these were built the Amish hosted dinners at their house… While I do not agree spirtually with the Amish, I will say they are some of the nicest honest people I have met…They really do tend to themselves…Living off the grid at first sounds tough but I must say sometimes I envy the Amish life style…So simple and peaceful….

      I hope someone fills the gatorade void….Pryor deserves better then what happened….Stay safe….

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    • KICKILLEGALSOUT
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 1:55am

      Welcome to the future of America as we continue to allow Billions of dollars of Saudi oil money to flood into public schools, colleges, mosques across the US, and other Islamic organizations to push Islamic propaganda to the masses.

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 2:00am

      As I’ve said before…thank the sweet Lord I was born an American Woman!…jeez…can these people move out of the dark ages already?

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    • *************************
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 2:13am

      So, no submissive women in arabia? No wonder islam has instructions on HOW to beat their wives.

      OR

      So, no submissive women in arabia, too? Where to next for mail-order-brides?

      OR

      So, are all women in arabia Americans?

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    • Aaron in Polk County
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 7:10am

      Love them or Hate them the Saudi’s got this law right. I mean, have you seen a woman drive? Honestly.

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    • chazman
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 11:22am

      You are not allowed to drive because you are a MUSLIM and a WOMAN! Do as you are told!!

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    • jjack
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 12:34pm

      So they cant mingle with men who are not their husbands or brothers. So does that mean every saudi woman is with sin cause she obviously mingled with someone who was not her husband at the time they met. These peoples rules make no damn sense. Then she got detained she had to talk to other males who were not her husband or brother. Sharia law = no common sense

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    • jjack
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 12:43pm

      @ okie from muskogee you cant call mccain a liberty fighter for the simple fact that he likes the idea of limited speech. no progressive whether it be R or D has one liberty bone in their body.

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 3:04pm

      @JJack

      McCain’s Liberty and true Liberty are not the same..He uses the word “Liberty” as a guise….Why does McCain support the US in Libya….“Liberty” fighter….

      Just a Progressive play on words…

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    • FuturePresident
      Posted on May 22, 2011 at 11:45pm

      Yeah the sexism in the middle east is something that I’m ashamed of as a human being. All you women here in America need to remember how lucky you are to live in this country where you are protected, treated well, and have all the rights that men have. Thank God for this great nation.

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