According to his preposterous statement, allowing women to drive would, “provoke a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality, and divorce”.
Within 10 years of the ban being lifted, it claimed, there would be “no more virgins” in Saudi Arabia.
This follows a previous report that stated women should cover their faces to avoid showing off “tempting eyes” to men.
According to the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) in the conservative Gulf kingdom, women may soon be forced to don a full-face covering.
Spokesman of the Ha’eal district, Sheikh Motlab al-Nabet said the committee has the right to stop a women whose eyes seem “tempting” and order her to cover them immediately.
Saudi women are already forced to wear a loose black dress and to cover their hair and in some areas, their face, while in public or face fines or sometimes worse, including public lashings.
Source: Bikyamasr.com
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