Comments on: Saudi Women Driving http://xrdarabia.org/2008/01/26/saudi-women-driving/ Informed comment and commentary about Saudi Arabia, reform, and its relations with the US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:55:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Saudi in US http://xrdarabia.org/2008/01/26/saudi-women-driving/comment-page-1/#comment-10797 Saudi in US Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:13:49 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/2008/01/26/saudi-women-driving/#comment-10797 Sparky,This story was covered in the Egyptian press extensively with lots of Saudi bashing and lies. Including that she was a princess, was drunk, Saudi government bribing officials to get her free, etc. The fact is the girl has a Saudi dad and an Egyptian mother. She went to grade school and college in Egypt. So she was more Egyptian than Saudi in upbringing and probably learned driving like many affluent Egyptian girls as she grew up. She probably got a license through normal rout. Sparky,This story was covered in the Egyptian press extensively with lots of Saudi bashing and lies. Including that she was a princess, was drunk, Saudi government bribing officials to get her free, etc.

The fact is the girl has a Saudi dad and an Egyptian mother. She went to grade school and college in Egypt. So she was more Egyptian than Saudi in upbringing and probably learned driving like many affluent Egyptian girls as she grew up. She probably got a license through normal rout.

]]> By: Sparky http://xrdarabia.org/2008/01/26/saudi-women-driving/comment-page-1/#comment-10795 Sparky Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:24:28 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/2008/01/26/saudi-women-driving/#comment-10795 Biggest question I have: Where did she obtain her license assuming she had one? Like I have said before I have heard of Saudi women being handed out international driver's licenses in Saudi Arabia like hotcakes without ever having to prove they can drive. They obtain them so they can go into other countries and driver. So much for the protection of men over their women. "Here is a license...a gift from me to you! Go and kill yourself and people in other countries." * I am not saying this true for the woman in this story because it doesn't state anything about her license. Biggest question I have: Where did she obtain her license assuming she had one? Like I have said before I have heard of Saudi women being handed out international driver’s licenses in Saudi Arabia like hotcakes without ever having to prove they can drive. They obtain them so they can go into other countries and driver.

So much for the protection of men over their women. “Here is a license…a gift from me to you! Go and kill yourself and people in other countries.”

* I am not saying this true for the woman in this story because it doesn’t state anything about her license.

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