Baby, You Can’t Drive My Car
What’s worse, the prohibition against driving itself, or the timid, submissive request that it be lifted?
“On the occasion of the second anniversary of the accession of the Keeper of the Two Holy Sites, King ‘Abdallah Bin ‘Abd Al-’Aziz, and with the national holiday approaching on September 23, we, the League of Demanders of Women’s Right to Drive Cars in Saudi Arabia, announce that we will be delivering a message to King ‘Abdallah, may Allah preserve him, demanding that he return that which has been stolen from women: the right to [free] movement through the use of cars, [which are] the means of transportation today.
“This [right to free movement] is a right that was enjoyed by our mothers and grandmothers in complete freedom, through the means of transportation available in their day.
I have a hard time picturing a fully-veiled Saudi granny in a ‘55 T-Bird, but I guess the LDWRDCSA knows what it’s talking about. Now, this sort of talk I can get behind:
“We would like to remind everyone that rights are not given or earned; they are taken, through the various peaceful means available - [means] that have been recognized by all international conventions.
That’s right, sister. You tell the man.
Lest you think this is a particularly Sunni sort of sickness, I relink to my favorite picture of the day.