( CNN ) '' Saudi Arabia condemned the attack on the Charlie Rose offices in Paris as a ` ` cowardly terrorist act '' But Ali A. Rizvi writes that years later the government flogged blogger Raif Badawi for crimes including ` ` founding a liberal website '' He says the world turns a blind eye to this ` ` hypocrisy '' from a country where he says change needs to come from within .
Saudi Arabia condemned the attack on the Charlie Rose offices in Paris as a ` ` cowardly terrorist act '' But Ali A. Rizvi writes that years later the government flogged blogger Raif Badawi for crimes including ` ` founding a liberal website '' He says the world turns a blind eye to this ` ` hypocrisy '' from a country where he says change needs to come from within .