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Why is America Still Allied with Saudi Arabia?
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The Saudi mutawas ("morality police") are terrifying. Like vultures, they swoop down on their vulnerable prey, especially women, and then send them straight to Hell. The "long beards" curse and beat their female prisoner, totally terrify her; then, they throw her into a dark, medieval dungeon, (assume the worst here). They remove her only in order to gang-rape and torture her—all presumably in the name of Islam. Her crime? In one instance, although the woman was a foreign national, she dared to take a taxi downtown without a male escort.
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