[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Graham

Interesting that it concludes:

"Their message urged Muslims to return to Islam and live in accordance with its teachings."

Does this include repressing women, chopping hands off theives and all the other things that people have mentioned in here...?!

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&sect...=31&m=1&y=2004

Only last week, a religious scholar here decreed that women taking the wheel of an automobile was sinful.

The argument was that by allowing women the mobility and the opportunity to intermingle with men would lead to a social breakdown of morals and ethics.

Prior to that, another scholar decreed that the participation of women in a recently held economic forum in Jeddah was just as sinful. Once again, the close proximity of women to men was raised.

It got me thinking. There are approximately 1.3 billion Muslims all over the world, with numbers rising daily. Assuming that half those numbers are women, it would place the figure to about 600 million, twice the total population of the United States of America.

And if half of these women have a driving license and are currently driving vehicles in different parts of the world, then it would indeed be an alarming statistic in line with this recent edict. For that would place approximately 300 million women in direct violation of proper moral behavior.