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  • That day I answered the door, and there were two mutawaeen.

    The Wall Jeff Long 2005

  • The mutawaeen take Sudanese or Ethiopian women, black women, into the desert and rape them, and leave them to die.

    The Wall Jeff Long 2005

  • Rosetta’s stones and law dog–being totally unfamiliar with Iran, but having experience with the mutawaeen in Saudi Arabia, I assume Iran has a similar body of enforcers?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Helping the Iranian Protestors: 2009

  • Rosetta’s stones and law dog–being totally unfamiliar with Iran, but having experience with the mutawaeen in Saudi Arabia, I assume Iran has a similar body of enforcers?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Helping the Iranian Protestors: 2009

  • And however you want to explain, after the mutawaeen came, I couldn’t deny we had a problem.

    The Wall Jeff Long 2005

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