Young girls trying to flee a burning school building in Mecca were beaten and forced back inside by the Saudi mutaween (the religious police). Fifteen of them died. Why would anyone do such a monstrous thing? Because they were not wearing their robes and scarves.

The Arab News, always ready with a conspiracy theory, says the men who forced the girls back to their deaths weren’t from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, they were imposters. (I wonder how long before they blame it on Jews?) Three other stories about the school fire don’t even mention the girls’ deaths, focusing instead on safety violations.

I have no doubt that if Western media hadn’t picked it up, this story would never even have been reported in the Arab News. They were only girls, after all.

Sickening.