King Abdullah: Move to Mars Won't You?

Declares Women Will Be Allowed to Vote in the 2015 Election, but Will Allow Torture of 10 Lashes, to a Thirty Year Old Woman, for Driving a Car Without Permission!!

Elizabeth Grieco, Yahoo! Contributor Network

Well, most would agree that a thirty year old Saudi Arabian woman, Shaima Jastaina, does not deserve to be whipped ten lashes, for simply driving a vehicle to attain her destination! What mystifies many, is that two days prior to this absurd announcement of retribution towards an innocent woman, King Abdullah, of Saudi Arabia, was quoted as saying,"He promises to protect women's rights and decree that women would be allowed to vote in the municipal election in 2015." Though he doesn't wish to antagonize the powerful clergy and also the many conservatives, that creates these overtly crushing and archaic unwritten laws, that hold women in chains!

It's is an insult to women around the world to profess on one hand, to be leaning towards a status quo between women's equal right to vote and then turn things around so abruptly, almost hypocritically, and now insist that women are subject to, at the bequest of egocentric men, who abhor the thought of their women becoming independent, in fear of losing their voices! What are they: mice or men?

We can assuredly characterize this male power based Saudi Arabian society as an oxymoron of sorts, on one hand deploring women's right to even exist, by refusing them the right to drive a vehicle to help lower household expenses, by not having to hire a male live-in driver in their homes at $300 to $400 dollars per month! But yet, on the other hand these poor families must be ruled by a King that speak in riddles, and a clergy and many conservative men that hide behind their cloaks! Where is the justice? I fear there is no justice for these poor women, born of a repressive society, that expects perfection but from their wives and cannot follow their own unwritten laws!

This Arabic society is practicing an abhorrent double standard, that proclaims itself evolved, with its beautiful palaces and modern edifices.  It must come to an end, or their credibility will be tarnished forever from the more civilized world! But, certainly now that the world watches intently, to see whether they will retract this uncivilized form of punishment because they cannot openly justify inflicting 10 lashes upon Shamia's delicate skin.  And for what? Simply, for driving a car without permission, at 30 years old!! How absurd and backward! And the clergy states they impose this unwritten law or taboo, to keep women from sinning?