Saudi Woman To Be Lashed For Driving

[Philtaz]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...-middle-east-15079620

Only 10? It'll take more than that to instill decent driving skills into her.....!

Seriously, how can their government give Saudi women the right to vote yet continue to enforce such draconian laws?

[joggerjayne]

This is disgraceful.

She should not go out on the lash if she is going to drive.

[whiskeryron]

ichkeria. Please don't split hairs. I am showing a serious threat to national security here, the examples I have given to you show that it is possible to evade detection by wearing the Burqa there is therefore a serious breach in our defences by allowing this to be tolerated in our open society & could quite easily cover up many nefarious practices.For example many times it has been pointed out that I am required to remove a motor cycle crash helmet before entering a bank or building society branch because of the risk of robbery, is it therefore too much to ask that everyone else walking our streets be dressed according to our societies civilised rules ?

Ron.

[mccfluff]

why is wearing a burhka uncivilised

i could put a bomb in my handbag, carry a gun under my coat etc etc

[whiskeryron]

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mccfluff
why is wearing a burhka uncivilised //

BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE THEIR FACES!!!!

Ron.

[mccfluff]

why do you need to see their face?

[ichkeria]

It isn't splitting hairs at all. You are suggesting that the wearing of burqas in public is a serious threat to national security. However, you have failed to produce any evidence whatever of this. There are many different ways of covering ones face, and I agree that all forms of restrictive headgear should be removed in certain cirumstances. However, it is a very drastic step to move from asking for, justifiably, equality in certain areas (entering banks, for example) to demanding a ban on specific items of headgear ostensibly because they are a threat to national security.
In the case of the burqa, it seems that a badly-thought-through correlation has been made between "Islamic item of clothing" to "terrorism".
I'm all in favour of preventing women being FORCED to wear it (though I don't see how that would be enforceable). However, simply banning it would make life pretty grim for many Moslem women, as many would probably be trapped at home.

[Ankou]

being a letch doesn't mean women should be required by law to wear short skirts and low cut tops just to suit each individual's nuances.

obviously i'd like it to happen, doesn't mean it should.

anyway, to the q. i have driven in jeddah, this woman is very brave.

[ummmm]

I would much rather see someone in a Burka tbh...

[ummmm]

Lol...

http://newsthump.com/...aric-claim-saudi-men/

[mccfluff]

jodie marsh is actually pretty intelligent, ok she choose to wear some interesting outfits but each to their own.

lip reading is interesting, not sure how you get round that one

[jackthehat]

I'd be able to make myself easily understood, simply by a couple of hand gestures........:o)

[ummmm]

Doc does have a point with that one. My Uncle used to lip read...

But....I've never spoken to anyone in a Burka. I've never actually seen anyone in a Burka in Northampton.

[ichkeria]

If you need to lip-read then plainly you don't want to have someone covering their lips.
However, unless we think it a common or even occasional practice of would-be terrorists and criminals to mouth the words "I am evil and I'm about to press this button on my belt" then in a security context it's irrelevant.

[mccfluff]

its quite sad how scared people are of a dress and scarf

that all it is a dress and scarf

[theshedman]

Ankou, I have driven in Saudi too but not brave enough to drive in Jeddah. We always had a company driver to take us around when in Jeddah. To say driving there is interesting would be one way of putting it especially at Prayer time. This was some 30 years ago mind.