A scary prognostication from our friends in the House of Saud:
Repealing a ban on women drivers in Saudi Arabia would result in ‘no more virgins’, the country’s religious council has warned.
A ‘scientific’ report claims relaxing the ban would also see more Saudis – both men and women – turn to homosexuality and pornography.
The startling conclusions were drawn by Muslim scholars at the Majlis al-Ifta’ al-A’ala, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, working in conjunction.
Their report assessed the possible impact of repealing the ban in Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world where women are not allowed behind the wheel.
It was delivered to all 150 members of the Shura Council, the country’s legislative body.
Honestly, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
Obviously, “Muslim scholars” is an oxymoron.
Isn’t it?
Marianne
Of course..I have no personal knowledge of this ..so I suspect it is rumor..but I have heard say..a few ladies have lost their virginity in the ‘back’ seat of automobiles here in the US..so they may be on to something, LOL
My first thought as well. Although it seems the males can still drive, so the cars’ back seats are presumably still available.
Tough to dispute that all women drivers ELSEWHERE in the world are homosexual, though. That’s pretty much a fact.
Well there were some not so blessed, lol…in wespac in the 50′s..Sorry..Chaplain..didn’t mean to bring you into this..was way before your time..
The solution is obvious: the women may drive only BMW convertible roadsters with bucket seats.
Should this prove insufficient, enact that further males my drive only Gremlins, Yugos or Pacers.
That ought to keep folks from making out in their automobiles.
– Max
Max:
I have personal knowledge that bucket seats are no barrier to ……. anything two people wish to do.
Paul
I am fully aware that bucket seats and, for that matter, even riding a motorcycle, are not a barrier. However, I am also of the opinion that neither one allows concealment or the option of any real-sounding explanation other than what was observed.
The Yugo, Gremlin and Pacer option will stop sex in a car. Trust me. Nobody of the female persuasion has ever been that determined, or desperate, that the male drivers of said vehicles have any chance.
– Max
You’d be suprised Max, I made a Toyota Yaris work, or was it an Echo (it was about a decade ago).
Suffice to say it will work, even if one party has to be outside the car.
all l can think is cause meet non-effect
I’m trying to figure out how more men and women would turn to homosexuality due to lifting the ban on women driving. And porn? How does that fit in? I’m not… finding the dots to connect for any linear connection. I struggle.
But aren’t you an Engineer?
Worse still, a mathematician in an engineering position. Me of all people should be able to connect these dots. Not happening…
“…dogs and cats living together!…”
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
Mayor: All right, all right! I get the point!
Sounds like the Sauds have their own conspiracy nuts there too….
Someone needs to tell the Saudis that “The Music Man” isn’t a how-to manual.
The Saudis could follow Obama’s direction: drill and refine as little oil as possible; regulate reliable gasoline powered autos off the road eventually, and; replace them with electric wonders that can travel 30 miles or so before recharging.
Not very realistic.
It’s OK if they drive; but don’t ever let them vote.
Just another example of “settled science.”
How can a significant portion of humanity be irretrievably stuck in the 8th Century?
One would think that in the age of unlimited communications of ideas through satellite television and the internet that people would eventually realize that, in the words of George H.W. Bush, “This will not stand.”
Why do you think we’re in this war? The Islamists don’t necessarily want to convert us, they just want to keep us from “polluting” their culture with concepts like freedom and responsibility.
Simple–don’t give the girls the keys to anything bigger than a BMW Series 3. Allah Forbid that one of the ladies drive an old pickup truck with a camper shell with a bumper sticker that says “If this truck be rockin’ don’t you be knockin’”
I really have to believe that the Saudi Religious Council knows absolutely diddly squat about women in general. Oh maybe they know as much as the average second grade boy in Topeka Kansas–but not much more than that.
MM..now don’t you be dissin’ us Kansas boys..a few from Topeka are USNA grads, and achieved flag rank..that might count for sump’un
n the report Professor Subhi described sitting in a coffee shop in an unnamed Arab state.
‘All the women were looking at me,’ he wrote. ‘One made a gesture that made it clear she was available… this is what happens when women are allowed to drive.’
Someone should explain to the Honored Professor that the one fingered wave in response to his disapproving stares is not an invitation.
Especially “that” finger.
When I got to the study by “Muslim Scholars” is when it went sideways for me. They stopped being scholarly when the zealots convinced them that there was no need to study physics, chemistry, math, or any other science, as all things happened only by the will of Allah! That, then, answers all questions!
Insha Allah!
You are conflating “Arab” with “Muslim.” If you look at their advances in the sciences, they stopped when the mohammedean warlords took over the Arabic culture. You could easily argue that there have been no Muslim scholars in the way we mean scholar.
On the “no more virgins” worry – were they considering letting 8 year olds drive?
(only half way joking there)
In about ten years’ time those Saudi “scholars” will be having the same debate about tampons.
I look forward to them joining the 20th (not 21st) century around AD 2050.
Let’s not forget, folks, that these people are some of our closest allies in the Gulf…
Thanks for the comic relief! What a hoot!
Oh, wait, you’re right….
There is a fracking solution that involves laying a lot of pipe, and then the Saudis could drink their oil for all we care…
Yes sir! we have enough oil and gas to leave the Saudis eating sand..
Drill it , baby…!
What are they whining about?..I doubt Mohammad drove a car..
I guess I’ve lived in Northern California too long, but my take is that even if the scholars could prove that letting women drive would lead to more homosexuality and pornography, women should still be able to drive. Right is right. Maybe allowing women to drive could also be scientifically linked to a reduction in suicide bombing or Sunni and Shia getting along better and we could have a balanced transition.
Or maybe, giving women equality and decent income opportunities over a couple of generations could lead to a general increase in societal wealth that would reduce poverty, birth rates among the poor and general violence.
Of course, you’d first have to parse the difference between traditions masquerading as divine truth, scientifically proven, of course.
Hey DWAS, I wasn’t dissing Kansas boys–I think they learn as quick as anybody else; and your average second grade boy in any school in the country knows as much about sex and women as the entire Saudi Religious Council. Heck, even in my innocent 2d grade days 60 years or so ago in a small town in Washington State, I knew as much as those dudes do now.
That said, I was struck by Joe’s qoutation about Professor Subhi–”the woman was looking at me and made a gesture–it was clear she wanted my scrawny horny old carcass”–well I’m paraphrasing.
But that’s what you get when you enforce rigid separation of the sexes and put all the women under burlap bags if or when you let them out in public.
About ten years ago there was a book called “The Looming Tower” or a title close to it. It detailed how an Egyptian national founded the Muslim Brotherhood/ and other precursors to Al Qaeda. Said Egyptian national went to a college in Greeley Colorado circa 1948 or 49–and was scandalzied by the bold behavior and dress of Western women. He was deeply offended, it was immoral etc.
Frankly I’m scandalized by the clothing I see on youmg women these days. There seems to be a nationwide shortage of cloth to cover the female hide. The Egyptian dude referenced above would blow his cork looking at those women–my stars and garters all of these women are looking at me and want to ravish me etc. Delusions of grandeur I might say.
Has anybody else been to Greeley, Colorado in the past 10 years? It seemed a little bit of Berkeley transplanted into the movie set for Paint Your Wagon, or at least it was when I passed through about 20 years ago.
I could see where a man might become confused about what constitutes societal norms, civilization, or bathing if Greeley is anything like what I remember.
– Max
I know you were not dissing us, lol
I thought it was funny, lol…best..
there is so much I don’t understand..about what is happening to this country..I get pissed off all the time, at the news..so I mostly stay here..and let my Capt keep me up to speed on the important things..even though this Kansas boy has to look up a few words once in a while..
Mike M, that was Sayyid Qutb who went to Greeley, CO. He obviously made a lot of it up, but his real takeaway was this: a Christian church that held socials in its basement in which men and women were dancing slow together to steamy pop music (for the late 1940s) wasn’t altogether serious about its mission. From which he drew the not unreasonable conclusion that despite the artifacts of Christendom being all around us, Christianity itself had grown hollow and weak, and could be conquered by a resurgent Islam. From this grew the various plans, including Islamic immigration to the West (hitherto forbidden by Shari’a, but now craftily recategorized as a class of hejira, a model of the emigration of Mohammad to Medina), that have put us in the mess we are today relative to Islam.
It’s easy to snicker at his obviously uptight response to what now looks to us to be a very tame environment, but what he took away from it is nothing to laugh at.
NO MORE VIRGINS???? The last thing we need is another France. I’m off to paint my barn – excellent cure for excessive libidinous thoughts of the decline of the Saudi virgin.
Virgins? Come now, Hogday, grow up–you’ve obviously led a sheltered life. I’ve long ago ceased to believe in witches, werewolves, ghosts, goblins, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, virgins, and other such totally fictitious creatures..
But I think I’ve seen all those other things…
LOL–BEFORE or AFTER the absinthe?
Take it easy, those are the “good” muslins, America´s friends, true allies, bla bla bla.
I know, realpolitik sucks.
Giving such a savage, ridiculous people, armed with the most ignorant belief system (After reading the Koran, I told one of my shipmates it was what the Bible would’ve read like if it was written by the Devil) more of the most important resource on our planet is proof God has a very bad sense of humor.
But hey, diversity is our strength. Of course, if you ask our leftist friends, the gay couple can live next door to a Muslim family whose wife doesn’t drive.
“the Koran was what the Bible would’ve read like if it was written by the Devil”
Oddly enough, Franklin Graham (Billy’s
son) agrees with you.
“Virgins? We don’t need no stinking virgins”
With apologies to Mel Brooks…
If women could drive, and more people went parking, they might discover the temporal joys of the flesh in the here and now, and be somewhat more resistant to the whole 72 virgins meme. I wouldn’t care if they all took up homosexuality as long as they quit trying to kill us.