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SAUDI CLERIC: Women Can’t Drive Because Their Brain Shrinks When They Go Shopping

Ryan Saavedra

Officials in Saudi Arabia suspended an Islamic cleric from preaching after he allegedly claimed that women’s brains shrink to “quarter the size” of a man’s brain when they go shopping.

Saad al-Hijri was suspended after he said women shouldn’t be allowed to drive because they only have “half” a brain and that when they go shopping, they lose the other half of their brain.

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