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Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to have a law stating women (Foreign and Saudi) are banned from driving.
Women either have to rely on male relatives or taxis with Pakistanis or Bangladeshis to drive them around. The taxis are usually unsafe, unclean and the women are generally harassed by the drivers.
A saudi woman has started a forum to promote discuss the issue of women driving and to generate a change in policy.
The right to drive for women is a huge issue in Saudi and there are growing voices of the domestic and international community to allow women to drive.
Even Princess Amira al-Taweel, who is one global tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s wives, told the Saudi daily Al-Watan that she already drives when she travels abroad.
“Certainly I’m ready to drive a car,” said al-Taweel, whose husband is a nephew of Saudi King Abdallah and is ranked as the world’s 13th-richest person by Forbes magazine. “I have an international driver’s license, and I drive a car in all the countries I travel to.”
Her answer came after the interviewer noted that her husband had said in a previous interview he would be the first to let his wife and daughter drive if the ban was lifted.
The Monarchy has to balance the demands of the religious clerics in this country but I always think of Umm Salamah who emigrated from Mecca to Medina ALONE on a camel through the desert. Where is there any evidence in the Quran or Sunnah that bans a woman to drive? In actual fact, the use of taxis places women in the company of a non related male.
Feel free to copy the below image and put it on your bags, cars, even your abayas!!!!
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