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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Words and impressions

A recent AFP story began with this lead:

Hardline Saudi clerics have called on the government to ban women from appearing on television and to prohibit their images in print media, which they called a sign of growing "deviant thought."

Fundamentalist christianists in the US have said similar things about gay people. So, I wonder: How come the Saudi clerics are “hardline”, but similar christianist ones in the US are simply ”conservative”? Can the mainstream media really not see how similar the two are?

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