Saudi Arabia
May 23 2011, Marco Villa

Saudi clerical fanatics, kooks, crazies and buffoons.

Since September 11th, Saudi Arabia has been under American pressure, mostly of the Congressional sort, to amend its notorious textbooks. The Saudi education system is controlled by the fanatical.

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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The acute obscurantism that informs Saudi domestic policies also serves as the basis for the kingdom’s foreign policy. Saudi foreign policy is simply reactionary....
made popular May 11 2011
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Saudi Wahhabi religious police who strictly and mercilessly enforce tyranny and religious fanaticism and extremism. The American press feigns outrage over human...
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One of the more amusing aspects of the escalating Cold War between Saudi Arabia and Iran is that impertinence, sheer audacity, of vulgar Saudi propaganda. The Saudi...
made popular Apr 19 2011
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The Wall Street Journal recently dubbed the escalating war of words between Saudi Arabia and Iran to be an Arab “Cold War”. The term in reference to the...
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Incognito, Atlanta
Death for apostasy is probably one of the greatest abominations of the civilized, modern world, and yet it is something any Muslim faces in Saudi Arabia if they find...
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Michael Davison, Raanana
Want to be a popular Arab leader? Blame the Jews for anything and everything wrong in the world. Famine in Africa? Blame the Jews. Drought in Sudan? Blame the...
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Saudi Arabia, as I wrote previously, is the most regressive force in the Arab world. This is a Kingdom that not only subjects its people to horrific Medieval oppression...
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Will Hillary Clinton dare notice this disregard for women? Recently American Secretary of State Clinton visited Egypt and Tunisia to offer advice on their democratic...
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Foreign domestic workers continue to be grossly mistreated in the Middle East. They are often abused, tortured and many wind up dead at the hands of their abusive...
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The King of Saudi Arabia is incredible modest. I mean, he’s almost akin to a gamine. Walking unawares that he commands such great power. And O’ is he so...
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I feel that there most be an insightful quote from history to sum up all the awesome events that have rocked the Middle East since December 17th, 2010. It is humbling...
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At the behest of the corrupt authoritarian ruling regime in Bahrain, Saudi Arabian forces have moved into occupy the nation and aid in the suppression of a peaceful...
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The fall of the House of Saud is much to be wished, but very unlikely since the nation is ruled by a ruthless royal family and subservient clerical establishment which...
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The Qatari regime, and its voice heard through al Jazeera (owned by the royal family), has supported the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt but has stayed silent if not...
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After a three-month medical hiatus the ailing king of Saudi Arabia returned to his throne and announced a $36billion economic package meant to placate Saudi reformers...
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A royal family that gives its name to its subjects clearly expects subservience. But those days in Saudi Arabia may be coming to an end. Despite House of Saud...
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After the Tunisian revolutionary many Tunisians may have worried that Arab authoritarian states would seek to sabotage the revolution for fear that a successful...
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“After the first successful thrust every revolution differentiates into political and class currents. This is the moment of greatest danger. The moment when the...
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Brandon, Rochester
WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia threatened to prop up President Hosni Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt, The Times of London...
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ASIF ANWAR ALIG, Al-Khobar
Asif Anwar Alig Al-khobar | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: The Governor of Eastern Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Chairman of Board of Directors, Prince...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The sentiment of the Arab world’s tyrants toward the dramatic democratic uprising Tunisia was best exemplified by the House of Saud’s own 24/7 news [sic]...
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
On Sunday, December 19, 2010 the New York Post reported that New York attorney Dudley Gaffin was exploring the acceptability of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia buying St....
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When the Wahhabi radicals entered Mecca they destroyed the tombs of the Companions of the Prophet because they claimed it would lead to paganism. Wahhabi’s...
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I recently about the lousy Saudi royals their hypocrisy: One of the greatest injustices of the vile Saudi kingdom is the hypocrisy. If the royal family bothered to...
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One of the greatest injustices of the vile Saudi kingdom is the hypocrisy. If the royal family bothered to impose in toto the strict and fanatical Wahhabi doctrines on...
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ASIF ANWAR ALIG, Al-Khobar
By Asif Anwar Alig Al-Khobar | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia President of American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), Dr. Darryl C. Hill, Executive Director, Mr. Fred...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
During the 2008 campaign, Obama’s Muslim heritage was played up in much of the Arab press. The fact that Obama had a Muslim father, and a Muslim side of the...
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There isn’t a region of the world run by a more miserable and vile bunch than the cursed region for the Arabs. Of course let me distinguish between the Arab...
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Ari Rusila, Jyväskylä
While negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program in Geneva are continuing some WikiLeaks documents are highlighting the other – military – option to solve the...
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It is striking, but consider the news: that for all the recent hoopla concerning Wikileaks a mere +1,300 sources have been released from a filing list of over 250,000...
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The Vile and Illiterate Saudi King. The corrupt oil monarchy of Saudi Arabia is truly a house built on sand. The nation produces nearly next to nothing after its oil...
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The biggest news from the Wikileaks release is that to no informed one’s surprise many corrupt Arab regimes are eagerly pushing the United States to bomb Iran....
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It is not surprising that members of the Saudi royal family finance Wahhabi radicalism and terrorism aboard. There are two royal families: the socially liberal and...
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ASIF ANWAR ALIG, Al-Khobar
Bunch of ideas translate into towering initiatives which Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) proliferates throughout with number of initiations. Educational boom already...
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The Wahhabi zealots who control the Saudi education system are notorious for their bigoted screeds, which are commonly found in Saudi educational textbooks. After...
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Gulgun, Colombo
Spending five years in a Saudi Arabian jail while facing death by beheading would be traumatic for anyone, let alone for a 17-year-old thousands of miles away from...
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Talal, Riyadh
The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, delivered the Hajj sermon in Nmira Mosque at Mount Arafat, on account of the Hajj pilgrimage.
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Omar, Riyadh
MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia — Nearly 3 million Muslims gathered for the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia are making their way up a rocky desert hill, chanting...
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Saudi Arabia recently banned the social network site Facebook due to ‘moral concerns’. This is the standard Saudi pretext for banning anything dissident....
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Al Shabab player Abdoh Otaif, 2nd left, scoring the first goal against Al Hilal during the semi final of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, May 1, 2009.