The latest Saudi women’s rights ‘reform’ is breathtaking (and not in a good way)

By Thomas Lifson:

The idea that democracy and liberty can be exported to the Muslim Middle East was naïve when applied to Iraq, a far more modern society than Saudi Arabia, albeit a totalitarian dictatorship under Saddam Hussein. Bringing Saudi society into anything resembling compatibility with the modernity practiced in all of the advanced countries of the world – the express goal of Prince Mohammed bin Salman – is a task seems Sisyphean.

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