Saudi Arabia recently passed measures to restrict the power of the country’s dreaded religious police, or mutawaa. These officials, identifiable by their piously untrimmed beards and thobes cut just above the ankle, are the bane of Saudi women who dare expose a bit of hair or facial skin beneath their black burqas or foreign couples who have the temerity to hold hands in public.
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