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Monday, January 21, 2008

More Tribal Justice from the Twisted Kingdom


In Saudi Arabia, a country whose most notable contribution to world culture has been the psychotic flavor of Islam known as Wahhabism, a couple's marriage has been annulled because the wife's relatives believed she had married beneath her tribe. By secretly continuing to live with her husband, the wife ended up in jail for nine months.

It could be worse for the wife. She could be forced to die in a burning building because religious police wouldn't let her outside without proper attire, as happened in 2002.

These are our allies, mind you.

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