Saudis Exclude Women

In the dog-bites-man story of the day, al-Jazeera reports that women will not be allowed to serve on the nation's consultative council. The consultative council has no real power anyway, so excluding women doesn't even make sense on some abstract "women should not rule" grounds (which wouldn't justify it, of course). Said Saudi dissident Muhammad al-Massari, "The extreme Wahabis that run Saudi Arabia have two obesssions - women and non-Muslims."