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Say What Now of the Day: Members of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, the Majlis al-Ifta’ al-A’ala, have submitted a report to the country’s legislative body claiming that allowing women to drive would ultimately result in there being “no more virgins.”

According to the Egyptian publication BikyaMasr, the Majlis, working with former King Fahd University professor Kamal Subhi, have concluded that changing the law to give Saudi women the right to drive would “provoke a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce.”

They estimate that, in as little as 10 years, the country would run out of virgins.

Women in Saudi Arabia have been actively challenging the kingdom’s status quo in recent months, engaging in drive-in protests that have resulted in several arrests

Saudi’s ruling monarch, King Abdullah, has been flirting with women’s rights reforms, allowing women to participate in local elections and even serve on the royal advisory council. A woman sentenced to be lashed after she was caught driving had her sentence personally revoked by the king.

Though the country is far from a liberal mecca, all these factors have likely contributed to hyperbolic exaggeration on the part of Saudi’s Muslim scholars, who see their influence over the Shura Council waning. 

[bikyamasr.]