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Top Religious Cop Responds to Mall Clash Over Nail Polish
The new head of Saudi religious police has criticized one of his men who was captured on video ordering a young woman out of a Riyadh shopping mall for wearing nail polish, the daily al-Watan newspaper reports. "The world is manufacturing airplanes and we are still telling a woman 'leave the mall because you've got nail polish on your fingers,' " the local daily quotes Sheikh Abdullatiff Abdel Aziz al-Sheikh as saying, Al-Arabiya reports. The incident in late May was videotaped by the unidentified woman and posted on YouTube, where it has drawn more than 1.5 million viewers. A patrol car from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or religious police, is parked at an upscale mall in Riyadh in May.Photo: Doug Stanglin / USA TODAY Abdullatiff, who heads the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, is...
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