Women Drivers

A little over 88 percent of Saudi women interviewed in a survey rejected the idea of women driving in the Kingdom.

They said driving was not a priority for them; this echoed the view expressed earlier by Interior Minister Prince Naif.

The London-based Center for Women's Studies, which conducted the survey, said the majority of women gave priority to employment, marriage and measures to reduce divorce and to end abuse of women instead of driving.

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We don't agree with the Muslim oppression of women, but maybe we oughtta leave the issue alone. If Muslim women don't want to drive and don't feel oppressed by laws that prohibit it, maybe the laws aren't oppressive. Maybe, in other words, we should defer to how the Muslim women feel about it. If anyone believes Muslim women don't know what's good for themselves, that person holds an awfully low view of Muslim women . . . one a lot lower than a law that doesn't let them drive.