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February 28, 2008

Saudi Arabian 'Justice'

Mona Eltahawy, Middle East Online, United Kingdom - By forcing Saudi Arabia to choose between what is meted out by its morality police and Wahhabi clerics or abiding by UN and other international conventions, the civilized world supports Saudis who refuse to be intimidated by the barbarity - and exposes the cruelty done to the kingdom's victims, many of whom are innocent women. If justice really was a woman she would not survive long in Saudi Arabia.

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