Al Arabiya is reporting a bizarre warning issue by a leading Muslim cleric that women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and pelvises and birth defects. The announcement from Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan comes as women continue to demand to be able to drive in the Kingdom and international pressure is growing for Saudi to make fundamental reforms. Judging from today’s other Saudi story, I thought the greatest danger was the religious police on the roads.
A judicial and psychological consultant to the Gulf Psychological Association, al-Luhaydan warned that “Physiological science and functional medicine studied this side [and found] that it automatically affects ovaries and rolls up the pelvis. This is why we find for women who continuously drive cars their children are born with clinical disorders of varying degrees.” The real purpose appears evident in his observation that women who are demanding to drive are placing “reason ahead of their hearts, emotions and passions.” Clearly, he believes they need to think not with their emotions and passions but with the ovaries and pelvises. Another voice of reason among the Kingdom’s clerics. It is rather chilling to see a cleric serving as both a “judicial and psychological consultant.”
This is a new approach since previously the warning was the women driving would lead to fewer virgins in the Kingdom. Now they will be damning their children to defects and subjecting themselves to rolled up pelvises.
The Saudi’s must have purchased Word Press … they no likey my scathing … oh well …
Well, I think I have my answer to the Dollo’s Law thingy I mentioned up-thread.
Researchers seem to have found evidence of its falsity:Dollo’s law, named for the 19th-century paleontologist Louis Dollo, states that evolution always moves forward — that an organism cannot redevelop an organ or attribute discarded by its ancestors. But new research on humble dust mites, the tiny arachnids that live in cushions and carpets everywhere, is challenging the law.
Using DNA data to construct an elaborate family tree, two University of Michigan biologists have shown that dust mites — which are not parasites but free-living organisms — evolved from parasites that in turn evolved from other free-living organisms. That would seem to contradict Dollo’s law, since the mites should be unable to readopt the free-living characteristics discarded by their ancestors.
“The results show pretty conclusively that dust mites are derived from parasitic ancestors,” said Barry O’Connor, an evolutionary biologist and one of the authors of the study, in the journal Systematic Biology. (A Challenge to Dollo’s Law).
It would seem that this new finding indicates that Sheik Dip Shit has regressed back into the dark ages when alchemists sold Magic Teflon Vagina Juice … a substance which neoCons discovered during the recent election, and which they subsequently go around rubbing on the sidewalks in front of Family Planning Clinics.
BTW, Elaine is correct that when Saudi men drive (DWM) it pushes their unit up into their brain.
Take this as an evolutionary warning men who drive … you could reverse evolve to become dinosaurs in more ways than one.
Seriously where do people get these ideas?
The current point leader, Matt Kenseth, is from the next town east of us, Cambridge, Wi. He’s kinda a big deal there.
I stand corrected. Danika’s Ovaries are safe:
‘Ovaries’ help Danica Patrick to solid qualifying run at Iowa
Patrick said during a press conference Friday that she has overcome worries about the track’s infamous bumps in Turns 1 and 2 — hitting top speed earlier in the race weekend. The Iowa Corn Indy 250 is Saturday.
“That’s kind of what I thought last year, around (Turns) 1 and 2, the bumps there — just did not feel comfortable for me,” Patrick said. “We’ve been working on it. I was running the fastest times of my first 50 or 60 laps (Friday morning) at the end of the run.
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“So I think we made it better. Last year in practice, I don’t know if I went flat-out until qualifying.”
Then, the kicker.
“That took some ovaries to do because I wasn’t really excited to do it — but I did it,” Patrick said.
Darren, Lol! But, Danika has no trophies and now no babies. Tough day for that woman.
In related news, the Catholic Church agreed and has told all Catholic women to cease driving as it is a form of birth control, w/ the rhythm method being the only accepted form of birth control.
The former rock star, Meatloaf, referred all to his one hit wonder, Paradise by the Dashboard Light, as the real dangers of women in vehicles. Phil Rizzuto, staunch Catholic, still claims he was duped and thought the song was about baseball.
Yep, women riding in the passenger seat suffer none of these injuries. Only the driver seat causes the ovarian trauma and the de-virgining of the populace.
This guy should get together with the congressman here who claimed that Guam would tip over and sink into the ocean if the marine and navy base population increased too dramaticaly.
Danika Patrick’s ovaries must have turned into pillars of salt by now.
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Reblogged this on euzicasa.
From the looks of his picture, some should clue the good sheikh in to the studies which have shown a link between beard dye and cancer. (or not)
This guy has been talking to our religious right again. But seriously it would appear that our great friends and allies the Saudis are at it again. Those freedoms loving theocrats have learned a thing or two from our freedom loving theocrats. I cannot count the times that I have heard “my objection to abortion, contraception or anything Planned Parenthood does isn’t religious only it is based on solid scientific fact!” I will then be lectured on how liberals are just so emotional about women’s rights that they don’t understand the real medical and scientific dangers we are putting women in when we allow them to choose how to take care of their bodies.
Again common ground for theocrats all over the world: women cannot be trusted and must be controlled at all times and by the way because men cannot control themselves please tell the women to cover up. Its for their own protection!
Gary T , you are exactly right. It’s rare that anyone has all the necessary information to be an authority on anything. So people make stuff up and often they persuade others to believe the made up stuff. Some folks enjoy making stuff up authoritatively while others enjoy believing that those with good persuasion skills actually know what they are talking about.
Hope Akin and Broun don’t read that or that is their next drivel against women here.
This is an overseas and radical public pundit’s rationalization to stop women from driving. It seems obvious and ridiculous to us, that the warnings are not related to anything other than the want to keep women subjugated, but using a seemingly on the surface plausible excuse for doing so.
And yet, I see the same kind of crap spouted her in America for the same reasons – stupid things that reactionaries and statists will cite to keep things the way they are, using arguments and false assertions to do so.
And we as a society barely condemn it, just eat it up as part of the public psyche-sphere.
My brother Jack lived in the middle east. He says to never trust anyone who wears a tent on the head and a robe with gold.
What??!!
Obviously his own mother did a lot of driving.
I guess the Saudi cleric hasn’t heard about the terrible alliterative medical problems that can be caused when DWM (Driving While Male):
1) scrunched up scrota
2) pendular penises
3) spiraling sperm
I am considering whether to begin doubting Dollo’s law (“evolution only goes in one direction, and is not reversible”).
Remember Yeats’ comment:
“…while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”?