SAUDI ARABIA UNDER THE LASH -- BY STEPHEN SCHWARTZ, The Weekly Standard

King Abdullah, tear off those veils!

As most of the world has come to know, Saudi Arabia has many unique characteristics. These are not mere tourist attractions associated with date palms and camels. Rather, Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world named after its "owners," the Al-Saud family. It is the only country in the world that bars women from driving on its public roads. It is also unique in its policies of cultural vandalism, dictated by the ultrafundamentalist state interpretation of Islam,

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