Saudi cleric says women who drive risk damaging their ovaries

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Source: Reuters



RIYADH | Sun Sep 29, 2013 12:34pm EDT

(Reuters) - A conservative Saudi Arabian cleric has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom's male-only driving rules.

A campaign calling for women to defy the ban in a protest drive on October 26 has spread rapidly online over the past week and gained support from some prominent women activists. On Sunday, the campaign's website was blocked inside the kingdom.

In an interview published on Friday on the website sabq.org, Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Lohaidan said women aiming to overturn the ban on driving should put "reason ahead of their hearts, emotions and passions".


Reuters earlier wrongly identified him as Sheikh Saleh bin Mohammed al-Lohaidan, a member of the Senior Council of Scholars, one of the top religious bodies in the birthplace of Islam.

By contrast, Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Lohaidan, the person quoted in the sabq.org report, is a judicial adviser to an association of Gulf psychologists.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/29/us-saudi-driving-idUSBRE98S04B20130929

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Ho humm! Just another "high level" male con-cock-ting wisdom for women...

[Brigid]

1. And OB/GYNs everywhere . . .

nearly kill themselves doing this:

[kardonb]

12. saudi clerics

to saudi clerics . ignorance is bliss !

[Scairp]

17. I was thinking

Clearly his own mother drove a car as he has turned out to be brain damaged himself. Why is this society so terrified of women? I will never understand.

[PassingFair]

32. They are afraid of women being able to ...

get away.

They want to control them like slaves.

[iandhr]

2. WOW I am speechless.

[adieu]

3. Let's see...

Driving will damage ovaries, but riding in the passenger seats won't. I wonder how the ovaries can tell there's a steering column in front of the person.

[Indi Guy]

6. Must be the stress of doing men's work that causes the damage. n/t

[tblue]

8. The threat is to their testicles.

Their manhood is under attack whenever women exercise an ounce of autonomy.

[kentauros]

22. Although they could be attacking those testicles

automotively!

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

4. Saudi clerics who.....

.....attempt to think and speak damage their brains.

[Ash_F]

5. That's our ally! /nt

[tblue]

7. You want to help my ovaries?

Don't help my ovaries. That's the BEST thing you can do if you're SO concerned about ovaries.

Yes, we all know that NO women drivers have ever had children. They got behind a wheel and their ovaries just died.

I feel so sorry for the women and girls living under such tyranny.

[tanyev]

9. OMG! If driving is that dangerous, then men also need to stop driving!

Immediately!

[LiberalFighter]

18. Somebody should squeeze his testicles.

[KamaAina]

37. With what?

Tweezers?

[jessie04]

10. Its stupid...

its ignorant .
its insane.
I too feel so sorry for the women and girls living under such tyranny

But quite frankly , who are we too judge ?

I think its arrogant to think one culture is better than another.

[Thor_MN]

11. I know there are cultural differences between countries... Brits driving on the left, etc.

But I'm having a real tough time figuring out how they drive in Saudi Arabia that is going to have that effect...

[Uncle Joe]

21. They must be four wheeling with square wheels, no shock absorbers and a microwave oven where

the steering column goes, I believe that's the only possible explanation?

Although I can't cite any scientific evidence to support my hypothesis.

[Thor_MN]

27. Best I could come up with is that women had to drive using a tiller

And doing that thing that they banned with the uneven parallel bars?

[freshwest]

29. Driving on the left causes ovaries to create socialists! Just ask Hitler!

[sakabatou]

13. I wouldn't be surprised if some other religious leader said the same thing

in the past, present or future.

[ConcernedCanuk]

14. Let me ponder this a moment.

.
.
.

Women's ovaries are inside the body, right?

Men's reproductive organ is OUTSIDE the body . . .

You tell me - who hurts more when kicked in the crotch,

hmmmm?

CC

[Pantagruelsmember]

15. Obviously

the Sheik is GOP Congressional leadership material....

[Ghost Dog]

16. LBN is broken, then.

Shame.

[Jack Rabbit]

19. I wonder if the cleric distinguishes legitimate from illegitimate rape

. . . just like the misogynists in the country.

[GreenStormCloud]

42. Under Islamic Sharia Law, a rape must be witnessed by four men for it to be rape.

And those four have to testify to that in Islamic court. Obviously, rape convictions are somewhat rare.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

20. Women who drive risk damaging my car

Come on. Somebody had to say it.

[theHandpuppet]

38. No they didn't

We could have had an entire thread without that asinine comment.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

40. It was a joke.

[Blue_Tires]

43. At least post a *good*, witty variation of the joke:

[Matariki]

45. Dickish comments wrapped in a 'it was a joke' container

boo.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

46. Dang. Tough crowd.

[olddad56]

23. this cleric sounds like he would fit well in the US House of Reps.

on the GOP side of course

[pscot]

24. He was referring to camels

women who drive camels are at risk. His information is 1300 years past it's pull date,

[arely staircase]

25. has he announced his candidacy for a GOP senate primary yet? nt

[ForgoTheConsequence]

26. Great place Saudi Arabia

Lets keep selling these nut jobs bombs and tanks while we criticize Iran for saying similar things.

[Snake Plissken]

28. I'm glad to know my gonads are crash proof

Thanks Mr Conservative Saudi Arabian Cleric

[BillyRibs]

30. This Depth Of Stupidity,

Is Just Not worth the thought to respond to. Sheesh!

[Marrah_G]

33. A religious leader with zero basic knowledge of biology or science?

I'm shocked..........

[iamthebandfanman]

34. ive had folks break my balls

more than a few times while driving my car :p

[Brigid]

35. Is this the same idiot . . .

That said women in SA should not run their sir conditioners while they were home alone, so that no one would near it running and know they were there? There was a story on DU some months back.

[yurbud]

36. Republicans are kicking themselves that they didn't think of this first

[Orsino]

39. Spurious excuses such as these are rarely found outside of the Congressional GOP. n/t

[sarcasmo]

41. I wonder if Sheikh Saleh is related to Pat Robertson?

[Matariki]

44. It should physically hurt to be that stupid.