The Saudi driving ban is a social, rather than political, issue, over which the authorities would rather not incur the religious establishment's wrath or create controversy.
On a diplomatic mission to Turkey, a rough-diamond but top-rank UK politician gets caught up in a brawl which brings on his head the wrath of religious and secular leaders.
But the kind of testimony given by Mr. Zubair is rare in incidents of accused blasphemy, where much of the details are murky or disputed, as people are generally afraid of inviting the wrath of religious figures and leaders who use their pulpits to whip up a storm of public anger, often leading to violent protests and riots.
At the club's restaurant and bar, which has survived the wrath of religious extremists over the past few years, Daoud al-Rahmani, a self-styled poet, writer and satirist, sat at a table with two of his colleagues for an early lunch.
But religious films also risk the wrath of believers.
Not surprisingly, Professor Kurtz and the secular humanist movement drew the wrath of the religious.
The publication of Rushie's 1988 book The Satanic Verses drew the wrath of Iranian religious leaders for its depiction of the prophet Muhammad.
Pasolini had already roused the wrath of the religious establishment with La Ricotta, a 35-minute comedy on the making of a biblical film; he actually received a four-month jail sentence as a result.
The author Salman Rushdie, who lived for years under a death threat after his 1988 book The Satanic Verses drew the wrath of Iranian religious leaders, has spoken of his anger that 12 murdered Charlie Hebdo staff have been "vilified and called racists".
These included "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" in 1948 and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" in 1953, dense scholarly works that nevertheless became best sellers that helped revolutionize the United States' attitudes toward sexuality (and drew the wrath of many religious and conservative groups).
