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Re: Saudi King Allows Women To Vote In Local Elections 

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Saudi King Allows Women To Vote In Local Elections

...that's a big mistake. You would think he could learn from the mistake we made on that very same thing! Very Happy




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Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!

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Saudi King Allows Women To Vote In Local Elections
By: clo in FFFT
Sun, 25 Sep 11 10:25 PM 		Msg. 34130 of 65535

Saudi King Allows Women To Vote In Local Elections

by The Associated Press

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia September 25, 2011, 02:31 pm ET

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) —

Saudi King Abdullah announced Sunday that the nation's women will gain the right to vote and run as candidates in local elections to be held in 2015 in a major advancement for the rights of women in the deeply conservative Muslim kingdom. 

In an annual speech before his advisory assembly, or Shura Council, the Saudi monarch said he ordered the step after consulting with the nation's top religious clerics, whose advice carries great weight in the kingdom.

"We refuse to marginalize the role of women in Saudi society and in every aspect, within the rules of Sharia," Abdullah said, referring to the Islamic law that governs many aspects of life in the kingdom.

The right to vote is by far the biggest change introduced by Abdullah 

, considered a reformer, since he became the country's de facto ruler in 1995 during the illness of King Fahd. Abdullah formally ascended to the throne upon Fahd's death in August 2005.

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