The
Wall Street Journal has an article here today on how women are still not allowed to
drive in Saudi Arabia. It features one
woman who defied the ban a couple of years ago, and shows the harassment she is
still experiencing.
According
to Wikipedia, schools for girls outnumber schools for boys in Saudi Arabia, and
women account for 58 percent of college students. My guess is that, with these numbers, the
regime's repression of women cannot be sustained for too much longer. The cell phone, Internet, and twitter have
provided, essentially, free assembly for women,
and any kind of tyranny has trouble lasting in the bright light of the
free exchange of ideas.
At least that's what I fervently hope.
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