Saudi Arabia Agrees To Allow Women To Drive

By next June, women in Saudi Arabia will legally be able to drive—a long-sought change that the country announced Tuesday on state television.

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to ban women from driving, even though Saudi women’s desire to get behind the wheel is very real. Many women even use fairs as an opportunity to get a little driving time in—on the bumper cars.

The country’s policy has long been criticized and protested, both inside the country and far outside its borders. In recent years, women protesting the ban have organized countrywide days of driving on social media.

carloslassiter - 9/27/2017 8:03:05 AM

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Welcome to the 20th century!

MDarringer - 9/27/2017 8:16:45 AM

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This is why the Muslim world is so important to us. They put us to shame with their visionary equality for women. Go COEXIST.

Hawk - 9/27/2017 9:39:33 AM

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Awww, isn't that sweet. So progressive.

llaroo - 9/27/2017 12:15:35 PM

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really ? your President was dancing like an idiot with them. Just saying.

TomM - 9/27/2017 4:04:53 PM

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Trump has nothing to do with this.
THe situation remained that Saudi Arabia was the last holdout for women drivers and there was a clear need to get more people to drive the men around. (HA)

It is in its treatment of women - that the Abrahamic religions will eventually go belly up.

MDarringer - 9/27/2017 8:58:09 PM

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Oh Tommy Boy...Trump is winning and your hateful heart can't admit it.

carloslassiter - 9/27/2017 7:18:19 PM

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"being an IDIOT like Hillary and Obama who both bowed down to these Towelheaded thugs is simply disgraceful."

Two comments:

1. I think the idiotic, bigoted insult for Saudis is actually "Camel Jockey", not "Towelhead". A "Towelhead" would be the term a guy like you would use for a person from India.
2. Your boy Trump just announced in his speech at the UN that it was not the US's intention to tell anyone else how to live (except for Venezuelans, apparently).
3. I'm guessing your solution to all global problems would be to nuke everyone?

MDarringer - 9/27/2017 8:59:03 PM

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#3 Please text Trump your exact location

carloslassiter - 9/27/2017 10:56:18 PM

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Why? Did I mis-characterize his UN speech? Maybe you ought to go watch it. I think it was pretty clear.

As for our relationship with Saudi Arabia, I would suggest it's a little bit complicated, so much so that it cannot even be explained in a tweet.

MDarringer - 9/28/2017 8:26:28 AM

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Next, muslim women will not be getting married at age 6.