Review of 'Women driving in Saudi Arabia'

Yaqoub did a first presentation of our class. First of all, I want to say he did really good job.

He talked about Women driving in Saudi Arabia. I think the topic was important global issue what we are not really interested in because it is an unfamiliar topic for us. Actually 3 years ago when I had been in Australia, my Saudi Arabian friends told me about this problem, so I knew that women in Saudi Arabia can’t drive, but at that time my friends made me understand this problem with religious view. Since then, I have treated this problem as cultural differences or natural religious thing, not an issue we have to think and solve. However after Yaqoub’s presentation, I tried to think it in different ways.

Inside of this problem, there are many other matters such as religion, politics and people’s common sense. I mean it is not only problem about women rights, it could be political matters or religious matter. I found more details about Saudi Arabia on the internet and then, I realized Saudi Arabia has a biggest oil source of royal family’s own. I think royal family doesn’t want that people getting desire to have oil source. For that, royal family has to control the people and steal women rights is one of ways to control people. It is totally just my opinion.

In the earth, there are many different people, and we have to live together. Because human is social animal, therefore we can’t live alone. So we have to learn accept people who have different thoughts with us. In consequence, I don’t want to say we have to help women can drive or not. As I said before, that is not matter about only women rights and I have nothing to change Saudi Arabia. So, I just want to accept the way they live and their opinions without blames or supports. This is what I want to do for living all together.