Glob-a-log

Last month, a prominent Saudi television presenter made international headlines when she permitted newspapers to print horrific images of injuries she said she had sustained from an alleged beating by her husband.

Rania al-Baz’s bruised and swollen face shocked the global community - and ignited an unprecedented public debate within Saudi Arabia itself over the normally taboo issue of domestic violence.

The Saudi king’s response was swift and decisive. He called in the kingdom’s editors and told them not to publish any pictures of women anymore,

The King reportedly told editors in a meeting this week that publishing a woman’s picture was inappropriate. “One must think, do they want their daughter, their sister, or their wife to appear in this way? Of course, no one would accept this,” the newspaper Okaz quoted King Abdullah as saying. “Young people are driven by emotion and the spirit, but the spirit can go astray. So I ask you to go easy on these things,” the King reportedly said.

These people, according to president Bush, are our allies. Well, fuck that - fuck Bush and all his oily, wife-beating friends.

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