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Saudi Women Want to Drive

Neither Islamic law nor country's constitution forbids female drivers

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 18, 2007 1:13 PM CDT

(Newser) – A group of Saudi women is trying to regain a “stolen right”: driving. The group will deliver a petition to King Abdullah this week demanding the right to get behind the wheel. But prospects for lifting the world's only ban on female drivers are...   Read full story »

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