Online videos showed a handful of women driving cars overnight, after King Salman's decree was announced late on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, has been widely criticised for being the only remaining country to forbid women to drive. That risks inflaming tensions with influential Wahhabi clerics with whom the ruling Al Saud has enjoyed a close strategic alliance since the kingdom's founding. The state-backed Council of Religious Scholars expressed support for the driving decree. Women driving means great evils and this makes them especially sinful,” one Riyadh-based Twitter user wrote.

Source: bd News24 September 27, 2017 09:56 UTC