Recently in the Kingdom of Saud, an elderly woman was convicted of driving a car and was beaten several times and then imprisoned. Outcry across the Muslim world has been in support of the woman and accusing the Wahhabist government of Saudi Arabia of distorting Muslim holy law in order to keep their own political sway and power. Others claimed that the woman was violating the secular rules that govern the kindgom of Saudi Arabia. When asked about the incident, on of the leading sheikhs at Al Azhar, a famous Islamic Universtity that can be traced nearly a thousand years, claimed that since the official law of the Kingdom of Saud is in fact Islamic Sharia law, they are clearly misinterpreting the text saying that there was no banning of women in motor vehicles anywhere in the Quran or the Hadeeth.
