Review on Women Drive in Saudi Arabia (Essay Sample)

Review on Women Drive in Saudi Arabia
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Review on Women Drive in Saudi Arabia
Women should not be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, and even though they are allowed to drive there should be a clear precise guideline towards achieving this goal. I don’t buy the idea of allowing women to freely drive in the kingdom. That would amount to a sacrilegious offence, in the kingdom that is punishable under existing sharia laws by death. Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Lohaidan (2013), advised an association of gulf psychologists that allowing women drive would amount to pushing their ovaries up. No law passed in the near future will give women the right to drive without first formulating a well-structured framework, which will allow this vice. The frame work will have to be implemented in a four stage process. The first strategy would be establishing women driving school and police training academy with female officers. Additionally ambulances will be required to have female paramedics. The cost of implementing the first step is enough to bring the kingdom of Saudi Arabia on its knees, never to recover in the near future. Cost of hiring trained personnel to conduct research before implementing the plan is alarming, the place of women according to the law and Quran is well secured and is not reason enough to warrant the changes. Moreover, women will require to have male guardians while driving. These will translate to more males leaving work to monitor the actions of women, these are because of the sharia law that prohibit women from walking alone. The prophet states that women are more vulnerable to sin and thus should not be allowed to walk freely. No existing law is in support of women driving, the process of such an allowance, would amount to changing the entire constitution and Quran. Allowing women to drive would give rise to emerging of other social vices that sharia law cannot allow, women would soon demand to expose their bodies which is unimaginable and attracts a stiff penalty. Women are better off the wheel, these will keep taxi industry more alive, protect them from rape and few foreign workers will work in the Middle East.  The taxi industry is one of the thriving enterprises in Saudi Arabia. Key clients in this industry are women as they are never allowed to drive, allowing them to drive would be a big blow that would ground the taxi industry. More to it, men would be rendered jobless, and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia would lose revenue in more than one dimension. Levies collected on taxies, tax paid by the drivers, petroleum industry would also experience low sales all these translate to loss of revenue to the government. Other industries that depend on the taxi industry would receive a death blow by allowing women to drive, these is a freedom that is not worth the sacrifice families would go hungry and children drop out of school.  Women drivers are exposed to rape compared to women who don’t drive, these are according to a survey that is conducted in various states and is not limited to Islamic nations only. Nearly all women carjacking cases in the world lead to rape. According to (Faisal, 2015), women are not allowed to drive because the Saudi Arabia Kingdom cares that their women don’t get raped. All men according to a survey conducted in the Saudi Kingdom and more than half women interviewed in this survey were in support of banning women from driving. One of the reasons for banning was cited as exposure to rape and risk of sexual harassment while on the road. Moreover, female driving in Saudi is a crime that is punishable by death, these shows the seriousness and quest to preserve culture and dignity of women at large. It is time both media and other activists engaged in other serious challenges that women in the Middle East face, rather engage in some petty chase about women and driving. It has more risky and damages history, culture and women among other things. Thousands of young energetic youth migrate t...