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To: Elroy who wrote (242070)	7/19/2005 2:31:32 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1575767

Protest against allowing women to drive gathers momentum (you'll notice they don't describe a single female protestor). By Mariam Al Hakeem, Correspondent gulf-news.com The controversy over allowing Saudi women to drive has taken a new turn with more than 100 Saudi personalities led by clerics signing and publishing a statement opposing the move saying the perils far outweigh the benefits. Two prominent scholars, Shaikh Bin Jabrain and Shaikh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, joined 15 university professors from Imam Mohammad Bin Saud University in Riyadh and its affiliate institutes, seven judges, one legal adviser from the Ministry of Justice and several government employees in signing the statement published on several internet sites. The 118 signatories labelled those supporting women driving as "conspirators who want to corrupt Muslim women", and called on the Saudi rulers to punish anyone advocating women driving. Words such as "atheists" and "hypocrites" were used to describe the supporters of the move. "The enemies of Islam want to destroy the distinct role Muslim women enjoy under Islam by seeking to corrupt them and consequently spreading corruption to engulf the entire Islamic world," the statement said. The statement quoted Muslim scholars like Bin Al Qayem, the late Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Baz who was Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, and Shaikh Bin Othaimeen, on the status of Muslim women and attempts to influence and corrupt them. The signatories said allowing women to drive would entail grave consequences. "Allowing women to drive means women would venture outside their homes without wearing the hijab under the pretext of security as has happened in neighbouring Gulf countries. "It would require women to be issued with identity cards, to be allowed to mix with foreign men, which is strictly forbidden. This would facilitate corruption and lead to the weakening of the position of men as guardians. "It could lead to women being harassed and increase the number of road accidents as well as cases of kidnap and rape," the statement said. It also quoted two fatwas warning against allowing women to drive.