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I hope the world wide instant pressure worked. Just like the Qatif Girl, they buckle.

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“The violation is not a security matter,” General Turki said. “He is not being jailed. He is being questioned, and I don’t believe he will remain in detention long. They will get the information that they need from him and then they will let him go.”

I’m not sure what information they want from him that takes about a month to deliver. A nuclear scientist can pour everything in his brain in less time!

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Thanks to Mahmoud and many other bloggers who spread the word, I am sure it made an impact.

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Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ~Potter Stewart

Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ~Potter Stewart

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ~Sigmund Freud, 1933

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ~Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1823

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. ~David Ben-Gurion

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ~Claude-Adrien Helvétius

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ~John F. Kennedy

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Ok, so this is only the PC WORLD feed, but their sources are quite wide and you can grab the links. How fast it spreads is probably down to what else is in the news and at the moment it would have to be something pretty big to cut through the Pakistan troubles. Also, half the press around here will NOT carry this story.
For example and totally unrelated: The world never picked up on the chap in Bilad Al Khadeem who prints T-shirts for Saudi and removes the ‘cross’ on the Barcelona football team’s logo as if nobody will notice. The Shiite owner thinks it stupid as far as we can assess but says: ‘If you don’t do this it will be the last thing you do, they will cut you’, as he gestures with a finger across his neck. So far only some Spanish are a little up in arms about it, so somehow the story trickles out albeit they are accusing manufacturers in Egypt and Algeria (I believe) when it is right here in homeland Two Seas.
Now in relation to this story, mention that the Burg Al Arab in Dubai went through a similar fiasco because it looked like a cross and must never be photographed at certain angles etc. However, bring this issue up in any comments you might make to any press outlet in the U.A.E (particularly Arabian Business.com) and your comments will be edited out with absolutely no mention of such an incident.
Here we have good ole’ Mahmood who lets it all hang out. Thank goodness!

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