18 January 2012

Nobody can hold them accountable

Saudi journalist Nadin Al-Badir speaking on Egyptian TV about the Saudi Religious Police:

Her criticism is timely, given that Egyptian Salafists have recently formed their own religious police, based on the Saudi model.

Though it's not all gone entirely according to plan: A group of ultra-conservative Salafis seeking to impose their own stringent version of Shari'a Law in Egypt took a royal drubbing in the town of Benha when they burst uninvited into a beauty salon. [Mick Hartley] Read more