Charles Johnson on LGF has a great post on the Saudis and the “problem” of apostasy within Wahhabist Islam (based on this Arab News article, whose author takes the “moderate” view). In the course of his discussion on the Wahhabist version of “free speech” [insert “lopping off of tongues” joke here] Charles offers this fine objective correlative:

This overprotective attitude towards their religion is reminiscent of the Berlin Wall; a huge artifice constructed to prevent people from following their natural impulse toward freedom. With landmines and guard towers.

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