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If you ask them, they will say it is Islamic for women not to drive. Yet Saudi Arabia is considered the heart of Islam where Islam originated from, the Prophet himself lived there! how can they be wrong?

Where is the basis of this practice? It is in the Hadith books which spreads false teachings like women are deficient in their intelligence (Bukhari) etc. and the overall men better than women mentality concocted by anti-women arab society of the Prophet's time and centuries after him and have become spread in extra-Qur'anic Scriptures written in later periods.

The same question I always pose: Is it in the Qur'an (that women should not drive)? No. Where did they find Allah forbidding women to drive? No where.

They will use their so-called "Sunnah of the prophet" to find justification...like women should not show their faces, or should not be outside, their place is home, men's place is outside etc.

Oh yes, if you speak to the strict "Sunnah following" men, you would find that they are more for the ban on women driving in Saudi (and everywhere). This just goes to show where the root of the problem lies.