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Marriage Saudi Arabia-Style
The “kings” and “princes” of sand and oil who rule Saudi Arabia may have signed on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1997, but the daughters of their subjects—and no doubt some of their own, as well—still live under the sick tyranny of shariah-interpreting that endorses the ...
Saudi air force hits Yemen rebels after border raid
washingtonpost.com — By Souhail Karam Reuters Thursday, November 5, 2009 10:33 AM RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has launched... heavy air strikes on rebels in northern Yemen and is moving troops nearer the border after a raid into its territory by the Shi'ite insurgents, ... (more) Saudi air force hits Yemen rebels after border raid
World Gender Gap Worst in Islamic Nations — Survey Shows Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, ...
realcourage.org — World Gender Gap Worst in Islamic Nations — Survey Shows Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Egypt, Turkey... at Bottom of List (more) World Gender Gap Worst in Islamic Nations — Survey Shows ...
Saudi Air Force Attacks Yemeni Rebel Villages
xrdarabia.org — The Washington Post is running this Reuters story online right now. In response to a cross-border attack... on a Saudi security post earlier this week, which resulted in the death of now two Saudi officers, the Saudi Air Force has launched attacks on ... (more) Saudi Air Force Attacks Yemeni Rebel Villages
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Shariah and "Marriage" -- By: Andy McCarthy
The Corner on National Review Online — ... kind of inversion, that to deprive little girls of conjugation with men old enough to be their grandfathers is to treat them “unfairly.” How cold the comfort, in the circumstances, that the “jurists” upholding this appalling penalty against defenseless victims invoke the marriage of their Prophet to a six-year-old girl—and by the way, a six-year-old, for those who’ve never met any, is someone who’s just begun to lose her baby teeth—to justify it. Read is all, here. [Thanks to Jen Rubin.] ...

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