This is it! The day has come for women to drive in the Magic Kingdom...Now, it's not official or anything and is only a grassroot movement that some Saudi women started on social networking sites, but it is a huge step forward in the right direction. The news is all over the internet refering back to how this all started, when Manal Sharif, a woman in Jeddah, was arrested and jailed after filming herself driving and posting it on the web. From there, The "Women2Drive 17th June," Facebook page was started, encouraging all Saudi women to drive on this day. CNN article
We just came home from small grocery shopping and did not see any women driving. We did see several police cars at intersections and they were visually checking inside cars...I guess trying to catch women driving. It is time, in the 21st century, that women be allowed some more freedom of movement, able to travel alone and to drive themselves to work, to the store and not have to be dependent on the men of their family and hired drivers.
The great King Abdullah, the progressive Saudi monarch, is himself open to change and has been striving since his coronation in the mid 2000 to open the Kingdom to modern ideas, recently stated that "the day will come when women will be able to drive." Soon or not, that remains to be seen!
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