Saudi women now allowed to drive all by themselves like big girls

Saudi Arabia will now allow women to travel without male guardian's approval and has boldly moved out of the Seventh Century where no woman has dared to go before.

A male guardian can be her father, husband, uncle, cousin, second cousin, or her son.fo

Of course other sharia laws are still in place and a woman can be stoned to death for committing adultery, for having sex when not married, for prostitution, for being a lesbian, for being a cross-dresser, for forgetting one item on the shopping list. [Just kidding about the last one--that only results in a light beating.]

Under the drastic changes of the country, women can now apply for passports, register a child's birth, divorce [it used to only be up to the husband], and be issued official family documents. Now a father or a mother can be a legal guardian of children, whereas before, it was always the man.

However, there are still archaic laws in place that don't bode well for women. For example, a woman needs male consent to leave prison, exit a domestic abuse shelter or marry. Women still cannot pass on citizenship to their children and cannot provide consent for their kids to marry.

So under the current system, women generally have to rely on the "goodwill" and quirks of male relatives to determine how their lives are run, but American feminists are mute on this point.

The proverbial camel crap has hit the peacock feather fan in Saudi Arabia as several brave women have fled the country and made public pleas for help in seeking asylum from their family and the government.

Last year, authorities arrested many of the country’s most prominent female campaigners in a sweeping crackdown on activists.

The country’s crown prince and de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, has attempted to present himself as a modernist reformer since being appointed heir to the throne in 2017.

But critics say the jailing of women activists under his reign and the treatment of dissidents, including Jamal Khashoggi, the jihadi journalist who was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, suggests the regime only wants change on its terms.

Prince Mohammed has brought in sweeping social and economic changes, aimed partly at weaning the country off its dependence on oil revenue. He has also dismantled some of the strictest controls over women. Last year, a driving ban was lifted, and rules were altered freeing women from needing permission from a male guardian to study at university, undergo surgery or get a job.

The crown prince has also curbed the powers of the religious police, who once publicly beat women they considered immodestly dressed and to check if they had a guardian’s permission for their activities. They also broke up mixed-sex gatherings.

Sex has always been in the forefront of Islamic thinking. You get virgins if you die a good Muslim in jihad. You can have sex slaves obtained from war booty. You can have up to four wives. You can have beautiful slave boys do whatever you want them to do, and do it for eternity, if you die in jihad.

The idea of heaven (Jannah) for a Muslim is not so different from Jeffrey Epstein's "Orgy Island." But in Jannah, the rivers flow with wine.

It seems that the greatest problem with sharia thinking is the insecurity Muslim men seem to have with their women as well as their need for power over them and treat them as religiously and mentally inferior to men.


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