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[ronito]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/saudi_wo...LwEtbAF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

sigh....:/

 

[cubanb]

shit, maybe they do have it right over there. Banning woman from driving here wouldn't be such a bad idea

"Driving by women leads to evil," Munir al-Shahrani wrote in a letter to the editor of the Al-Watan daily. "Can you imagine what it will be like if her car broke down? She would have to seek help from men."

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Phoenix]

"Driving by women leads to evil," Munir al-Shahrani wrote in a letter to the editor of the Al-Watan daily. "Can you imagine what it will be like if her car broke down? She would have to seek help from men."

Or perhaps I dunno, another woman?

Oh man, this article is just rife with blinders-on double standards

The driving prohibition has forced families to hire live-in drivers, who, strangely, are allowed to be alone with women. Al-Zulfa said clerics have deemed this a lesser evil than driving. Women whose families cannot afford to pay $300 to $400 a month for drivers rely on male relatives to take them around.

But they can seek help from men who live in their homes?

 

[Willco]

Driving is a path to the Dark Side!

 

[DarienA]

shit, maybe they do have it right over there. Banning woman from driving here wouldn't be such a bad idea

Yah cause here in the US it's the women who are causing all the accidents and paying the higher insurance premiums... oh wait....

 

[Archaix]

You know, it seems more and more frequent that I am exposed to something that I am exposed to something that makes me rethink my "Eh, all the major religions are equally fucked up and retarded anyway, let them think what they want" position.

 

[dark10x]

Religious zealots are scary people... :\

A friend of my sister was raised by crazed hardcore Christians. They left their son (my sister's friend) and their daughter in the States and moved to Africa to do "the work of Christ". Thing is, the daughter was just finishing High School and the son was in College. The parents left them with no money, no house, and no future. They basically have to live off of their older, recently married sister. The daughter was so upset by this that she attempted to make them stay through slicing her own wrists and skipping school. She went from a straight-A student to a wreck. She was planning on going to college, but her scholarships were taken away and they can't pay for it. This situation has me fuming. I don't even know them well, but it makes me so incredibly sick to imagine their parents just abandoning their kids "for the lord". What a bunch of shit.

When these hardcore fanatics start to act in even crazier manners, it really starts to scare me.

 

[Phoenix]

Religious zealots are scary people... :\

A friend of my sister was raised by crazed hardcore Christians. They left their son (my sister's friend) and their daughter in the States and moved to Africa to do "the work of Christ". Thing is, the daughter was just finishing High School and the son was in College. The parents left them with no money, no house, and no future. They basically have to live off of their older, recently married sister. The daughter was so upset by this that she attempted to make them stay through slicing her own wrists and skipping school. She went from a straight-A student to a wreck. She was planning on going to college, but her scholarships were taken away and they can't pay for it. This situation has me fuming. I don't even know them well, but it makes me so incredibly sick to imagine their parents just abandoning their kids "for the lord". What a bunch of shit.

When these hardcore fanatics start to act in even crazier manners, it really starts to scare me.

Your argument fails because there are non-Christians that undergo similar situations.

Abort, Retry, Fail?

 

[Arwen]

Al-Zulfa's cell phone now constantly rings with furious Saudis accusing him of encouraging women to commit the double sins of discarding their veils and mixing with men. He gets phone text messages calling on Allah to freeze his blood.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Shogmaster]

Your argument fails because there are non-Christians that undergo similar situations.

Abort, Retry, Fail?

That wasn't an argument. It was an anecdote.

Defensive much?

 

[Dilbert]

shit, maybe they do have it right over there. Banning woman from driving here wouldn't be such a bad idea

Just as a heads-up: I'm sure that you were kidding, but realize that your joke could easily be taken the wrong way.

Also, we had a thread about this very topic a couple of days ago, and it's a miracle that more people weren't banned in it.

 

[Archaix]

Your argument fails because there are non-Christians that undergo similar situations.

Abort, Retry, Fail?

He was saying that it's fucked up for somebody to abandon their own family to go and try to convince people that their favorite fairy tale is the best one in the world*. First, he wasn't attacking christians directly, it was just an example of religious zelots(as he stated to begin with). And second, his argument doesn't fail just because you say it does. That's not exactly how things work.


*I'm assuming this was some bullshit conversion trip, because if they were going for some actual good work and humanitarian kind of stuff, then it's pretty fucked up to get pissed off at them for leaving their adult children to make their own livings.

 

[WHOAguitarninja]

Your argument fails because there are non-Christians that undergo similar situations.

Abort, Retry, Fail?

Non religious zealots abandon their children for religion?

*I'm assuming this was some bullshit conversion trip, because if they were going for some actual good work and humanitarian kind of stuff, then it's pretty fucked up to get pissed off at them for leaving their adult children to make their own livings.

Highschool age kids are not adults, neither are early college kids. I should know cuz I am one =).

 

[themadcowtipper]

Seem like a fair and Balanced article to me, I shall take it as fact until someone post an article that poves this one false..

one could logicly assume Woman Driving = evil, evil= the devil, woman =the devil...


























j/k.....unless

 

[Firest0rm]

That's Wahabism for you, everything they do contradicts the meaning of Islam.

 

[Triumph]

That's Wahabism for you, everything they do contradicts the meaning of Islam.

Why are you disparaging our allies in Saudi Arabia? Why do you hate freedom?

 

[marsomega]

Originally Posted by cubanb:
shit, maybe they do have it right over there. Banning woman from driving here wouldn't be such a bad idea

...

Just as a heads-up: I'm sure that you were kidding, but realize that your joke could easily be taken the wrong way.

Also, we had a thread about this very topic a couple of days ago, and it's a miracle that more people weren't banned in it.

Not too late to reconsider...

 

[Pellham]

shit, maybe they do have it right over there. Banning woman from driving here wouldn't be such a bad idea

If you were even half serious, you'd deserve nothing short of a punch in the face.

Anyway, this is truly sickening. Unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about it. I guess it'll be 50-100 years or even longer before Saudia Arabia gets out of the dark ages.

 

[cubanb]

If you were even half serious, you'd deserve nothing short of a punch in the face.

Anyway, this is truly sickening. Unfortunately there's nothing that can be done about it. I guess it'll be 50-100 years or even longer before Saudia Arabia gets out of the dark ages.

what if I were half kidding?

seriously, I didn't think my post would be taken so seriously given how assbackward that whole country is. I mean look at the quote that I put in my original message.
I'd edit out my comment if only it were not quoted repeatedly throughout this thread.

Also I never saw the previous thread on Women driving. Sorry.