Women in Saudi Arabia have been celebrating the news that they will finally be able to drive, a landmark step that brings the conservative kingdom in line with the rest of the world and will allow many more women to work.

The Saudi Foreign ministry announced Tuesday that a royal decree has been issued that will allow women to drive by next June.
"This is a historic big day in our kingdom," Prince Khaled bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the US, said Tuesday in a briefing with reporters.
The move follows years of activism and appeals both from within and outside the Gulf nation.

A Saudi woman walks near car down a street in the Saudi capital Riyadh on September 27, 2017.
Kholoud Attar, a 32-year-old Saudi designer and magazine owner who has been running her business for 10 years, told CNN the change would make a "huge difference" both to her and to her female employees.
"Being able to drive really facilitates a lot of logistics and helps with shaving off the time to get things done," she said. "It's so thrilling to be able to do this."
For her female workers, the biggest gain will be in not having to pay for a driver or other transportation out of their salaries, Attar said. Employing a driver currently eats up a third of the average monthly salary for her staff members, who may also have to find the money for their children's care or education, she said.
As for those who remain opposed to women driving, Attar said, their voices "just became much quieter" thanks to the government saying it would be allowed.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2017/09/saudi-women-celebrate-news-they-will.html

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May Allah be praised

Lol, that's good news. Am happy for them

Folks talking about how Allah kept them in "Bondage" are either ignorant, mischievous or both.

The law that banned them all these while had nothing to do with Islam but everything to do with the local and traditional laws of the kingdom

The law is man made.

If it were ordained by Allah and admonished in the Holy Qur'an, no king or sheik can call for its removal.

Because it is a common law, women groups and civil organizations can protest and push for their "Rights". Ask yourself, why have these same group not asked for a female Imam or sheik?.

Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Egypt are all Islamic countries with females driving cars.

I am a Christian but I hate misrepresentation of facts.

Thanks.

Hmmm

Evablizin:


May Allah be praised

yea, finally Allah decided its time to let their women drive

hmmmmm..
patriarchy .. mumu Saudi men

Evablizin:

May Allah be praised

What for?

Serious something

Okay

I wonder how many other things this women are not allowed to do?, maybe not moan in the bed room too?

generalbush:


Imagine how Allah kept them in bondage for years!!

Allah sef

You need brain replacement fast

what is common sense? common sense is when bayern munich tries to be 3rd in its group so that they can knock Arsenal out of Europa... Lolz

D pic be lik suicide bomber o. Saudi has a lot of decrees against women. But d west no go talk and our islam bros here wud rather talk about rohinga

In 2017.. When women are leading countries; some are just allowed to DRIVE a car!
Such a backwards religion!!

I'm just here to watch the fights about to start. Watch how some will turn it to a tribal Hausa/Fulani thing, and how some people will indirectly blame Buhari for this.

Are you trying to blame Allah for the Saudi authorities incivility?
well since anything they do, the mercy killings, the rapes, the slavery and etc they attributes it to Allah. then may be Allah has decided to do what the rest of the world is doing.
I hope Allah will become wise soon to know that its bad for females not to enjoy inheritance and that child marriage is bad.
If Allah can do this for them then I believe Allah really wants to be civilized.

Nasty backward country full of death cult followers.

Who cares what goes down over there, since normal FREE human beings never set foot in Arabic countries. What the hell for ? Why would anyone voluntarily choose to visit a nation full of sex-obsessed perverts, misogynists and amputation specialists ?

Oh well, at least the BMOs (Black Moving Objects = Women enslaved by the death cult ) can now drive themselves and their inbred spawn, over to the Friday afternoon beheading ceremonies in the city square. So there is indeed some progress for the Mullahs and their ilk. How lovely.

generalbush:

Imagine how Allah kept them in bondage for years!!
Allah sef

Allah is God incase u don't know

I'm happy for Saudi women.

I'm also glad about the way Saudi Arabia is gradually adjusting to changes going on around the world. Instead of just embracing certain things just because everyone is doing it.

Kudos to them. Atleast their wind of change is a cool one, not like the one we have a Naija.

Up Next, North Korea to start watching champions league......

Hauwi:

Allah is God incase u don't know

No chit, Sherlock.

Nice one.

Dem go fit deh drive go meet their sIDE boiz weh don turn their anus to Lagos to Ibadan expressway.

IF RELIGION COMES FIRST IN EVERYTHING IN SAUDI, IS RELIGION NO MORE VALUABLE OR IS IT THAT ITS COMING LAST NOW

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Wait till the Saudi government tells women that their cars must have a tinted glass and there must be a man beside you before you can drive.

Government laced with religion is death...

Plz guys i need info abt working and living in Saudi Arabia.. Especially as a Christian

dionysus7:


yea, finally Allah decided its time to let their women drive

This has nothing to do with Allah's decree, it is a man man made law. This law is thesame as banning people less than 18years of age from owning a drivers license in Nigeria.
i hpe u understand now.

Good one.