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Islam: Free Choice For Women All Round (By Becoming A Non-Person)

What, you thought I’d swung around Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, of an afternoon? Or perhaps sashayed back to the year 700? No, this photo was taken in Wan Chai two days ago. That was only a few minutes after I had … Continue reading

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Islam: Where Women Are Most Equal

The unrest in the Middle East is starting to make its presence felt in little Hong Kong. Cathay Pacific, which before did overnight stays in unstable Bahrain, has now started doing them in super-safe Riyadh in Saudi Arabia instead. But … Continue reading

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Saudi Arabia, Iran on Human Rights Council????

It’s hard to think how the world can be more upside-down than it is now, where it seems the worse a country behaves, the more it is feted and kowtowed to by so-called democratic countries. As usual the eloquent Pat … Continue reading

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First Two, Then One … Then None?

Just when you thought Saudi Arabia couldn’t get any more ridiculous (at least if you have half a gram of brain cells to rattle together) out comes another cleric, imam or whatever, to prove that the Saudis far out-weird the … Continue reading

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Depraved Teenager Gets What She Deserves

Saudi court sentences 13 year old girl to 90 lashes (no, not eyelashes but being beaten with a whip by grown men in uniform) for – wait for it: Bringing her mobile to school. Wow. Justice prevails, eh? That girl … Continue reading

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