Saudi men not happy

AMID the celebratory end of Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving, some men expressed quiet disapproval of a change they fear will undermine the kingdom’s deeply conservative Muslim identity.

“In Islam, we don’t have this. During our fathers’ and grandfathers’ time, there was none of this women driving,” said Wadih al-Marzouki, a retired government worker in the city of Jeddah.

He said he had advised his three sons-in-law not to let their wives drive. “It is going to be very, very difficult. God help us the first month,” he said.