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SAUDI ARABIA - SHEIKH WARNS WOMEN
THAT DRIVING AFFECTS OVARIES & PELVIS - WOMEN OUTRAGED !!!
28 September 2013 - Saudi women seeking to
challenge a de facto ban on driving should realize that this could affect their
ovaries and pelvises, Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan, a judicial and
psychological consultant to the Gulf Psychological Association, told Saudi news
website sabq.org.
Saudi
Sheikh Saleh al-Luhaydan said driving “could have a reverse physiological
impact" on women. (Al Arabiya)
Driving “could have a reverse physiological impact. Physiological science and
functional medicine studied this side [and found] that it automatically affects
ovaries and rolls up the pelvis. This is why we find for women who continuously
drive cars their children are born with clinical disorders of varying degrees,”
Sheikh al-Luhaydan said.Saudi female activists have launched an online campaign
urging women to drive on Oct. 26.
More than 11,000 women have signed the oct26driving.com declaration that says:
“Since there are no clear justifications for the state to ban adult, capable
women from driving. We call for enabling women to have driving tests and for
issuing licenses for those who pass.”
Sheikh al-Luhaydan urged these women to consider “the mind before the heart and
emotion and look at this issue with a realistic eye.”“The result of this is bad
and they should wait and consider the negativities,” he said.
Twitter reaction
Al-Luhaydan's statement drew immediate reaction on social media, with many
Saudis ridiculing his “great scientific discoveries.” An Arabic Twitter hashtag
“Women_driving_affects_ovaries_and_pelvises” was created and is going viral
among Arab users.Female twitter user @Shams_AlShmous sarcastically applauded
the sheikh’s “exclusive scientific achievement.”A female user with the name of
Ms Jackson @B_B1ack tells everyone: “What’s your understanding of physiology,
leave it to our Sheikh al-Luhaydan”.Another female @Mshaal80 asked whether
al-Haydan “studied Shariah, medicine or foolishness.”
Not part of Sharia
The head of kingdom’s religious police said last week that the “Islamic sharia
does not have a text forbidding women driving.”Sheikh Abdulatif al-Sheikh
stressed that since he was appointed as head of the Committee for the Promotion
of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice religious police have not pursued or
stopped a woman driving.