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The Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is not something out of a farce, it is Saudi Arabia's official morality police force.(The Week)(Brief article)
The Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is not something out of a farce, it is Saudi Arabia's official morality police force. Reuters recently reported that the Authority for the P. of V. and P. of V. is conducting a witch hunt. No, that's not a metaphor. The morality squads aren't just looking for scapegoats in some scandal, or mercilessly hounding unpopular persons. This is an actual witch hunt. Belief in witches is apparently widespread in Saudi Arabia. The practice of witchcraft is forbidden by Islam, however, and punishment, though we have no details, seems to be ...
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