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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-11 03:57 PM
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10. Senior Saudi cleric questions women driving ban
JEDDAH — A top Saudi cleric challenged a ban on women driving on Tuesday, saying women should be allowed more social participation in the puritanical Islamic state.

Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled by Al Saud family in alliance with clerics from the strict Wahhabi school of Islam. Women must be covered from head to toe and are not allowed to drive.

"Clerics have studied the issue and no one has come up with a (Koran) verse that would forbid female driving...," said Ahmad al-Ghamdi, head of the Mecca region's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

"I do not consider it to be forbidden," he told journalists on the sidelines of a women's empowerment event in Jeddah.

Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40436673/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/senior-saudi-cleric-questions-women-driving-ban/
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