Saudi Religious Police Pushes It Too Far

The head of the Saudi religious police has come out strongly against one of his men who ordered a woman to leave a mall because she was wearing nail polish, a local daily reported. "The world is manufacturing airplanes and we are still telling a woman 'leave the mall because you've got nail polish on your fingers'," local daily Al-Watan quoted Sheikh Abdullatiff Abdel Aziz al-Sheikh as saying. The woman had defied the orders as she filmed her argument with the policeman and posted it on YouTube, in a video that attracted more than a million hits in the first few days after it went online. The three and a half minute video posted on YouTube shows members of the notorious commission telling the woman to "get out of here (the mall)." But she refuses to comply, saying: "I'm staying and I want to know what you're going to do about" it. (Source)