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Originally Posted by The_Heretic
Their government is. That's one of the reasons the Saudi people are so pissed at us propping them up.
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Watch out, when I was there the royalty were the educated ones trying to bring about change. The problem was that the people followed the Mullahs, so remove the royal house and the country reverts to its fundamentalist base. So yes, the Saudi people may be pissed at us propping the royals up. Osama Bin Ladin was pissed at us for propping the royals up, that was why he was kicked out.
What this University demonstrates is an initiative to "publicly" rise above the religious traditions and that the King managed to give acceptance to the idea - this is a step.
I believe in one article it stated that women would be allowed to drive in that region.