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08.05.2008 5:06 pm

Saudi religious police ban pet cats and dogs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

No, this is not a joke:

Saudi Arabia’s religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes…

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07.22.2008 3:53 pm

Multiple choice exams, the Saudi way

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Students at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Fairfax, VAAt the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum discusses last week’s Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom report on Saudi textbooks. The report also provides a glimpse into the multiple choice tests given to Saudi school children based on those textbooks.

A fourth-grade Saudi textbook titled…

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