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January 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Richard Hartley-parkinson
Last updated at 9:39 AM on 25th January 2012
A woman who defied a driving ban on female motorists in Saudi Arabia has died in a car crash.
Another was hurt in the crash in the only country in the world where females are banned from getting behind the wheel.
A police spokesman said that one of the women was killed instantly but the other had to go to hospital to be treated for her injuries.
The woman’s death comes months after Manal Al-Sherif was detained for being behind the wheel in the only country in the world where women are banned from driving
They were in a four-wheel drive on Saturday evening in the northern Hael province when the accident happened.
‘One woman was immediately killed and her companion who was driving the car was hospitalised after she suffered several injuries’ police spokesman Abdulaziz al-Zunaidi told AFP.
Their deaths come after they joined a
growing number of women who have defied the ban since a high-profile
campaign by a 32-year-old computer security consultant.
Manal
al-Sherif was arrested and detained for 10 days in May after posting a
video of herself on YouTube as she drover around Khobar, a city to the
east of the country.
There has been a rise in women drivers since Manal al Sherif (pictured) was arrested and held for 10 days in May last year
al-Sherif and a group of other women started a Facebook page called ‘Teach me how to drive so I can protect myself,’ which urged authorities to lift the driving ban.
Several other Saudi women went on to film themselves behind the wheel of a car in the days after al-Sherif’s detention.
Women struggle to get around in Saudi
Arabia, and it isn’t just a result of the driving ban.
Taxis can be
sparse and some men refuse to drive a woman without a chaperone – usually their husband or a close male relative.
One of the arguments that was thrown out by officials was that it was illegal for women to possess a driving license but not for them to drive.
In September, a woman in Jeddah named Shayma Jastaniah was found guilty of driving through the streets.
She was sentenced to 10 lashes as a result of the charges despite holding an international driving license.
Challenge: A Facebook page set up encourages women to take to their cars and drive on June 17
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Re-read the article AGAIN people!
it says that “two women have been killed in a road accident”.
THEN the DM mentions Manal al Sherif.
Manal al Sherif is NOT dead, she has not been killed either accidentally or deliberately.
It is not particularly surprising that people die in road accidents, and my sympathies go to their family.
There is no conspiracy, no mystery.
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– rebel, from a different planet, you make me embarrassed to be a man. I actually think women would do a much better job of running this planet. They couldn’t do any worse than men so far, could they?
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what a shame
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Like any other country, Saudi Arabia should be free to determine its own laws, just as we are free not to choose to visit there. Likewise, people from other countries should respect our own laws when they come to visit or live in the UK. Simples!
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If the poor woman has died in an accident i send my condolences to her family. now we haven’t any report of the accident, who was involved, had anyone else been involved or charged? it is with regret that the Saudi’s are so narrow minded a nation and should start immediately to loosen the restrictions they place on many of their nationals, they’re a proud nation but if they want more respect from the rest of the world they must be more considerate and start loosening the bonds especially in this day and age.
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It’s their country their rules. We need to stop thinking every country should be like ours. If another country interfered with our rules we d be sulking
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Where women aren’t allowed to drive, they won’t be getting proper driving lessons. The death rate on Asian and Middle Eastern roads is enormous, because driving fast and taking risks is normal behaviour there.
Put those together, and women drivers in Saudi Arabia are taking their lives in their hands. But the choice is that or living under house arrest. I admire them and mourn those who pay the unjust price.
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Not the same lady I saw on tv driving a Ferrari ? R.I.P, may others take courage from your efforts.
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I couldn’t imagine living in a country, in the modern world – where women are still treated as second class citizens, i mean i know that it’s just rules of that country, but it doesn’t seem right. Whether or not her crash was an accident or ‘”an accident” isn’t up to us to decide, as we don’t know everything that happened, only what the Daily Mail has reported to us.
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It is not actually illegal for women to drive in Saudi Arabia but it is enforced by the fact that there is no process for women to get licences, in fact women aren’t even allowed to be a passenger in a car with a man who isn’t related to them so they are often forced to take taxis driven by perfect strangers. The last time a woman publicly drove in Riyadh it was a princess and she was ‘mysteriously’ found drowned in the family swimming pool a couple of days later.
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