Our friend Saudi Arabia

The religious police in Saudi Arabia arrested five women on Tuesday for driving in defiance of a ban on women getting behind the wheel in the conservative kingdom, according to activists and local media reports.

. . . The coalition said that the religious police arrested four of the women when they were driving in the Dorat al Arous neighborhood in Jidda, a port city along the Red Sea. The four, ages 21 and 22 and riding in one car, were taken to a police station, where they signed a pledge not to drive again, the group’s report said. A fifth woman was arrested later Tuesday night while driving in the neighborhood of Suleimaniyah.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/world/middleeast/30saudi.html

Why are we allied with a country that promotes crazy medieval fundamentalist religious extremism . . . and exports Islamic terrorism?