RE:another gr88 news.
by zinawar on Oct 18, 2007 12:53 AM Permalink
In Saudi Arabia, they harass women in the streets and enforce the strict dress codes as well as sex segregation laws. They often beat women who refuse to obey their orders.
Saudi authorities rushed to protect their beloved %u201Cpromoters of virtue.%u201D But their attempt to defend these thugs only proved their guilt. The interior minister, for example, said that the religious police were only there to make sure that the girls were not subjected to any %u201Cmistreatment%u201D outside the school %u2013 which they sure were, by not letting them out!
If this barbaric incident had happened in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, we would certainly see endless reports about it in the U.S. media. Happening in Saudi Arabia, however, it was largely ignored by the media. Just like the U.S. media have remained silent about the fact that the Taliban%u2019s oppressive policies against women were carbon copies of those from Saudi Arabia, one of the Taliban%u2019s main sponsors.
Saudi Arabia does not allow women to drive, work, vote, appear in public by themselves or without being covered head to toe. The Bush administration, this %u201Cliberator of Afghan women,%u201D and administrations before it not only haven%u2019t subjected the Saudi rulers to the slightest criticism, they have praised them as %u201Cgood friends and allies.%u201D And the U.S. has consistently used them as middlemen to sponsor other backward, oppressive forces such as they once did with the Taliban and Osama bin Laden%u2019s al Qaeda, and as they now do with the Afghan warlor
