Quickly becoming a favorite blogger of mine, Crossroads Arabia talks of recent initiatives to empower the intellectual youth in Saudi Arabia. This is the kind of thing I like to hear, as John notes:

A lot of Americans complain that ???????Arabs never talk about change.??????? Those complaints are wrong, of course, but understandable. Stories that contradict the chosen US media narrative rarely get reported.

He is right, I never hear about these things on CNN. Perhaps the U.S. news media simply doesn’t cover these things unless they appear in the Human Rights Watch report. It certainly wouldn’t cover it if it unless the government announced a sweeping change of policy. I hope John can hook us up with some commentary on further action being taken.