Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, under pressure from Islamists to curb reforms, has warned local media against showing pictures of Saudi women..
with hair covered but faces showing.. which many Wahhabi Islamists consider morally wrong.
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In recent months, many figures in the powerful religious establishment have used mosque sermons, Internet forums and public debates to decry a wave of “liberalization”...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12814996/
(This kind of attitude could partly explain how 15 Saudi hijhackers could get worked up in to a murderous religious frenzy on 9/11: They can't date, can't hold hands with, or even look at pictures of women when in their own country. All that pent-up lust has to go somewhere.)
..Freedom for Iraqis!.. but Saudi Arabia?.. Meh. We need them too much; where's that pic of * and the King holding hands? 
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