Saudi women have ramped up their struggle to end their country’s ban on female drivers recently. This battle is decades old, but what’s surprising is that these women are increasingly defending their right to drive not by referring to any Western conception of liberty or equality. Rather, they are arguing that allowing women behind the wheel is more consistent with sharia — the same Islamic law that instructs men that women are their property, just like “gold, silver, branded beautiful horses, cattle and well-tilled land.”
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