The complaints in Saudi Arabia about the possibility of women driving can't be described as anything less than sheer hysteria. According to clerics from the Majlis al-Ifta al-Aala, the country's highest religious council, if women are allowed to drive than there will be "no more virgins" in Saudi Arabia. Yes, if women are given the least little bit of independence, they'll all rush out and start having sex -- that's what these Muslim clerics really and sincerely fear.
Or it might be more accurate to say that they really and sincerely fear that if women are allowed to make their own decisions, they'll make different decisions from what men in their lives would want them to make. In other words, they fear autonomy in others because they have become too personally dependent on controlling others. This makes them pretty pathetic -- and it also renders their religion awfully pathetic.
The report from the Majlis, in coordination with former professor at King Fahd University Kamal Subhi, reported their findings to the Shura Council, the country's legislative assembly.
It warned that allowing women to drive would "provoke a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce."
Within 10 years of the ban being lifted, it claimed, there would be "no more virgins" in the Islamic kingdom.
It comes after a previous report stated women should cover their faces in order to avoid showing off "tempting eyes" to men in the country.
Source: BikyaMasr
I guess I'd rather see a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality, and divorce generated by women being granted some independence and autonomy than the surges in hypocrisy, hate, violence, and oppression that are generated when authoritarian religious figures (like those at Majlis al-Ifta al-Aala) are given any power over others. I'd rather live in a society of gay, divorced prostitutes than a society run by Muslim clerics from Saudi Arabia.
But I wonder, what would conservative evangelical Christians prefer? They, too, object to prostitution, pornography, homosexuality, and divorce. They also complain that such "social ills" are produced by feminism, liberalism, and women getting too much autonomy outside the home. Their complaints about the modern world are almost indistinguishable form those of the Majlis al-Ifta al-Aala.
Yet, they are also the first and loudest to complain about the dangers of Shariah -- even though Shariah would suppress all the things that they want to be suppressed. So which would they choose, do you think?
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