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Culture

Brickbat: Honor Thy Father

Charles Oliver | 11.14.2013 6:00 AM

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Saudi police have arrested a Kuwaiti woman, who wasn't named by media, for driving her father across the border to a hospital. Women can legally drive in Kuwait, but not in Saudi Arabia.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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  1. Snark Plissken   13 years ago

    No fair doing brickbats from KSA, that's just shooting fish in a barrel.

  2. Live Free or Diet   13 years ago

    Damning the thugocracy with faint condemnation.

  3. Suthenboy   13 years ago

    Savages.

  4. Pompey   13 years ago

    Surely Egypt is "worse on women".

    1. Snark Plissken   13 years ago

      I dunno, are they?

  5. Fist of Etiquette   13 years ago

    They arrested her before she could try to parallel park in their country.

    1. Snark Plissken   13 years ago

      I lol'd.

  6. JidaKida   13 years ago

    Corruption is bliss dude, oh yeah!

    http://www.Privacy-Web.tk

  7. Hillary's Clitdong   13 years ago

    It's the War on Women!

    1. Dweebston   13 years ago

      Surely can't be, I don't see a single white American or European named in the piece.

  8. EDG reppin' LBC   13 years ago

    Religion of Peace!

  9. Rich   13 years ago

    Slippery slope

    1. Snark Plissken   13 years ago

      Driving on the wrong side of the road?

    2. Eduard van Haalen   13 years ago

      Toonces better watch out.

  10. frankania   13 years ago

    Are cars mentioned in the Koran? How can there be a rule on driving?

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