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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-kings-hypocrisy/2012/02/13/gIQA71wxBR_story.html
The Saudi King's Hypocrisy
(Washington Post) Editorial - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Friday delivered an angry speech denouncing the UN Security Council's failure to act on Syria. That same day, the Saudi ruler's security forces were firing on protesters near the eastern town of Qatif. Meanwhile, the regime's diplomats were arranging for the swift deportation from Malaysia of a fugitive Saudi journalist who fled the country after tweets he authored about the prophet Muhammad led to demands for his arrest and execution. Of course the violence in Syria is far greater than that of Saudi Arabia. But brains, justice, morals and fairness are in short supply not only in Assad's Damascus but in the royal palaces of Riyadh as well.