Mohammad al-Zulfa, a member of Saudi-Arabia's Consultative Council, finds himself in hot water for allegedly trying to corrupt the nation's morals. His countrymen cannot contain their outrage.
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. Chat rooms bristle with insulting accusations that al-Zulfa is "driven by carnal instincts with 454 horsepower." There even have been calls to kick al-Zulfa from the council and strip him of his Saudi nationality. Conservatives, who believe women should be shielded from strange men, say [his idea] will allow a woman to leave home whenever she pleases and go wherever she wishes. Some say it will present her with opportunities to violate Islamic law, such as exposing her eyes ... or interacting with strange men.
What has this evil man proposed? A most shameful thing: to possibly study the feasibility of allowing women to drive.
Thankfully, elsewhere in the Muslim world, there are women like these, and this one, who are way beyond putting up with such bullcrap.
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