Bookmark this page because you wont hear me saying this often so here goes congratulations to Saudi King Abdullah for revoking the outrageous court decision to lash a woman 10 times for simply driving a car.
Princess Ameerah Al Taweel married to the billionaire Prince Al Waleed who recently appeared on CNN Piers Morgan's show championing women's rights in Saudi tweeted the news that the King stopped the Court Order from being implemented.
The shocking sentence was the first time such an order was taken in relation to female driving and appears to possibly have been a Wahabi male backlash against the recent cautious although positive most definitely welcome decision to allow Saudi Women the Vote in 2015.
LM as I say welcomes the recent positive steps but they are tiny moves and in my opinion simply a reaction to the Arab Spring where Muslims across the Middle East are demanding democracy and Freedom.
Why are the Saudi's so afraid of women? I mean - it's really quite unbelievable
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't interpret this as a Wahabi male backlash to the vote - I think it's an attempt at quashing any potential mass disobedience. Although in other parts of the world it has been the general population who have marched etc - in Saudi it will be majority women.
If the majority of women decide to go all out in Saudi they will have a serious problem on their hands - because they have banned women from so much public activity that the simple act of organising a protest and being outside of the house etc would open up a jurisdiction nightmare.
It would be just too many simultaneous breaches for the Saudi version of the Sharia to deal with.
Probably they will have to sentence everyone to death or something(!)