Here
is an incomparable saying that beats them all. A conservative Saudi
Arabian cleric has come up with a great new medical discovery, which
says that women who drive, risk damaging their ovaries and bearing
children with clinical problems.
Aren't
you stunned? At least I was. I never knew that humanity was in peril,
because all over the world, women drive, cars, buses, dumpers and
even earth moving machinery. So the real threat to future of humanity
is not pollution, global warming, diseases, nuclear catastrophes
etc. etc. It is a certain skill that is a part of modern life and is
a must for most ladies.
In an
interview, published on Friday, 27th
September 2013, on the website sabq.org, “Sheikh Saleh bin Saad
alLohaidan,” who was wrongly identified by news agency Reuters as,
Sheikh Saleh bin Mohammed alLohaidan, a member of the Senior Council
of Scholars, one of the top religious bodies in the birthplace of
Islam, has come out with this startling (?) new revelation. The
cleric giving this interview, Sheikh Saleh bin Saad alLohaidan, is a
judicial adviser to an association of Gulf psychologists.
In
Saudi Arabia, even though there are no specific laws banning women
driving, only men are granted driving licenses. Since they are not
given driving licenses, not only women can be fined for driving
without a license but have been also been detained and put on trial
in the past on charges of political protest. The head of the morality
police in Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdulatif Al alSheikh,says that there
was no text in the documents making up sharia, or Islamic law, that
barred women from driving. Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, has been
also pushing for some cautious reforms in the direction of women’s
freedoms, like opening more employment opportunities for them, but
the the issue of driving has not been addressed.
A
campaign has been started, calling women to defy the ban in a protest
drive on October 26, 2013, and has spread rapidly online over the
past week and gained support from some prominent women activists. In
a response, the Government blocked the campaign’s website inside
the kingdom on Sunday,29th
2013. Now Sheikh Saleh bin Saad alLohaidan has come up with his
great discovery in this connection to support the ban. He says in his
interview:
“ Women
aiming to overturn the ban on driving should put reason ahead of
their hearts, emotions and passions. If a woman drives a car, not out
of pure necessity, that could have negative physiological impacts as
functional and physiological medical studies show that it
automatically affects the ovaries and pushes the pelvis upwards. That
is why we find those who regularly drive have children with clinical
problems of varying degrees.”
Unfortunately,
this great discoverer, did not site " specific functional
and physiological" medical
studies to support his arguments. How sad! Otherwise, he could have
been even recommended for the Noble prize in the field of medicine.
In any case I know now, why I get that stuffed nose frequently and
those occasional bouts of indigestion. The new found reason for my
discomfiture, is that my mother drove our car for many years in the
past. How simple! (Ha Ha)
2nd
October 2013
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