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2011-10-02 Arabia

Prince flays sentence against female driver

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Posted by Fred 2011-10-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 A question for 'Burgers in a Position to Know: could this be an indication of a crack forming between the Royal's and the Wahabbi's?

Posted by PBMcL 2011-10-02 11:06|| 2011-10-02 11:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Old Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal may have a change of heart when she rear-ends his Mulsanne on the ring road next week while texting.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-10-02 11:19|| 2011-10-02 11:19|| Front Page Top

#3 No expert, but I'd suspect a crack between the women and the rulers. How you going to keep them wearing the burqua after they've been to gay Dubai? Arabs may not be interested in modernity, but modernity is interested in them.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-10-02 11:55|| 2011-10-02 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 A string of successes (by Saudi standards) have done much to persuade the king of the value of considerable liberalization. Basically, every time he makes some minor change, he gets a payoff in spades.

After a spate of grotesque child marriages to old men, the Saudi public has finally had enough, and there is now an informal directive that females should not be married until 17 or older, and males 18 or older.

But there are a huge number of issues outstanding.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-10-02 12:41|| 2011-10-02 12:41|| Front Page Top

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