Saudi Arabia: The World’s Next Human Rights Watchdog?

Queen Elizabeth made King Abdullah her bitch. She’s got balls, son.

“Women are not — yet — allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, and Abdullah
was not used to being driven by a woman, let alone a queen,”
Cowper-Coles wrote. “His nervousness only increased as the Queen, an
Army driver in wartime, accelerated the Land Rover along the narrow
Scottish estate roads, talking all the time. Through his interpreter,
the crown prince implored the Queen to slow down and concentrate on the
road ahead.”

Abdullah, who died this week at age 90, would go on
to become regarded as a reformer, if a modest one. His sponsorship of
the Arab Peace Initiative and harsh stance against conservative Islamist
clerics following the 9/11 attacks earned him praise internationally.
Yet the Saudi Arabia that King Abdullah left behind is still extremely
old school in a lot of ways; for instance, women are still not allowed to drive. Did that magical joy ride with Queen Elizabeth mean nothing to him?

It obviously meant something to Cowper-Coles, who, despite being
technically barred from repeating the queen’s private comments or
reporting on her hijinks, deemed the story “too funny not to repeat.”

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