Order Mad as Hell on iTunes Available now Now this story is atrocious in a lot of ways
but it does have a funny element because the guy talking here what the Saudis call a historian
and he's going to talk about why women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia and why
they are allowed to drive in West and that's the most interesting part so the middle east
media research institute reported this and the Huffington Post wrote about it recently
his name Saleh al-Saabdoon and he claimed in a recent TV interview that women can be
raped when a car breaks down but unlike other countries Saudi Arabia protects its women
from that risk by not allowing them to drive in the first place oh that's why they can't
drive cause if they drove there's a tiny percentage change that they would break down and then
they would obviously be immediately raped so here is Saleh al-Saaboon Saudi historian
explain the phenomena to us he says about the westerners they don't care if they are
raped on the roadside but we do OK I was not aware of that but he is a historian so it's
hard to argue he says it's no big deal for them beyond the damage to their moral in our
cause however the problem is of a social and religious nature isn't that amazing man he's
saying like oh you got raped I mean for the western women it's just a moral problem right
but for us it's also a religious problem so it's much more serious that's not really how
I view rape I think is the serious part you're religious views about it is a little less
important but obviously he doesn't view it that way and even the anchors and one of them
was a female anchors covered her head and was like oh my god what do you say that's
cause you can't really justify not allowing women to drive it makes no sense whatsoever
right so you have to come up with nonsense things like this oh yeah no no western women
rape is no big deal to them so now let's be fair to the guy he apparently did have a solution
because you know one of the anchors asked him they said well what their male tribers
rape good question OK there is a solution but the government officials and the clerics
refuse to hear of it the solution is to bring in foreign chauffeurs to drive our wives I
don't know why I didn't think of that before they how do you give women more rights give
them female chauffeurs of course isn't this insane this is one of the top allies of the
United States of America that we protect these guys to no end the ISIS they do beheadings
so do the Saudis oh Iraq they did 9/11 no they didn't 17 out of the 19 high jackers
were Saudis and you have people like this Saudi historian talking about why you should
never let women drive and the only reason westerners do is because they don't mind the
rape OK by the way if women do drive what's the punishment well Saudi women face serious
penalties if they are caught driving including lashing so get a lot of this their idea of
how to protect women is we don't want you to get raped so if you drive we will beat
you with a whip we'll whip you OK and it's not theoretical right now two women who defined
the ban on driving last year Loujain al-Hathloul and Maysa al-Amoundi who by the way are amazing
heroes are being tried in a court that handles terror cases but that is fitting cause for
the Saudi royals and the government and the people in power in Saudi Arabia that is what
strikes terror in their hearts a liberated woman on the lighter side of things we did
find the exchange with Saudi government of the issue of women driving and other rights
they might have and this a Young Turks exclusive so we want to show it to you so you can judge
for yourself if Ferengi females could wear cloths in public then they can leave their
homes if they can leave their homes then they can go to work if they go work they can make
profit what's the matter Quark afraid of a little competition OK that might not have
been the Saudis but the Saudis do make similar claims as the Ferengi that the rest of us
humans shamelessly cloth our women and want the other to unclothe them isn't it sad that
there is a legitimate comparison between the Saudis and the Ferengi