"However, Saudi dailies (newspapers) launched an unprecedented attack on two of the country's chief Islamic pillars - the religious police and the girls' education authority, which is controlled by strict Islamic clerics - after a fire at a girls' school in Mecca this month left 15 students dead.

Newspapers accused members of the religious police - the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice - of blocking rescue attempts by male firefighters and paramedics because the girls were not completely veiled."

Yet another example of extreme religious beliefs driving men to insane acts, or preventing them from performing sane ones, and women suffering as a result.

If you want to liberate women, liberate the world from religious extremism, starting with the very worst and most dangerous of all - Islamic fundamentalism.