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A Saudi woman was sentenced Tuesday to be lashed 10 times with a whip for defying the kingdom’s prohibition on female drivers, the first time a legal punishment has been handed down for a violation of the longtime ban in the ultraconservative Muslim nation. Normally, police just stop female drivers, question them and let them … Continue reading
Having officially determined that God is totally cool with women voting, Saudia Arabia’s King Abdullah announced that starting in 2012, women will be allowed to vote and run in municipal elections. Which are the only kind of election anyway! And not only can Saudi women now participate in the low-level and politically-limited elections allowed by … Continue reading
The Brandt Standard 