Saudis divided about letting women drive
CS Monitor | Aaron was pretty upset about the whole "women drivers" thing too
All he was asking, says Mohammad al-Zulfa, was that his fellow legislators think - just think - about studying the possibility of allowing women - not all of them, just some - to drive.
But circumspect though he was, he has touched off a fierce controversy, pitting women's rights campaigners against conservatives who believe that lifting Saudi Arabia's ban on women drivers is un-Islamic and will lead to permissiveness.