Saudi women are holding a day of action to challenge the kingdom's ban on female driving, amid signs of slowly growing readiness by the authorities to consider reform in the face of strong opposition by the clerical establishment.
[A COMMENT] The problem isn't the house of Saud, but rather Islam, which treats women as subservient to men and allows extreme interpretations to subjugate women in this way.
In many ways, Islam is where Christianity was in the Middle Ages. Hopefully, it won't take as long it did with Christianity for the negative aspects of Islam to be overcome. Another 500 or so years of this nonsense would be hard to take.
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