Saudi Arabia Uncovered
Thursday, March 31, 2016
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With undercover footage and on-the-ground reporting, FRONTLINE reveals a side of Saudi Arabia that’s rarely seen, and traces the efforts of men and women...
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Jordan's king accuses Turkey of sending terrorists to Europe; Turkey is deliberately 'unleashing' Isis terrorists into Europe, says Jordan's King Abdullah
Sunday, March 27, 2016
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Turkey is exporting Isis-linked terrorists to Europe, according to King Abdullah of Jordan.The monarch's remarks came in a meeting with members of the US...
Friday, March 18, 2016
UN: Most civilian casualties in Yemen were caused by Saudi Arabia's attacks
Friday, March 18, 2016
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The UN human rights chief has accused the Saudi-led coalition of causing twice as many civilian casualties as all the other forces fighting in...
Friday, March 11, 2016
#IslamicSocietiesReview: Obama: "Saudis heavily funded Wahhabist madrassas, seminaries that teach the fundamentalist version of Islam favored by the Saudi ruling family"
Friday, March 11, 2016
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In private encounters with other world leaders, Obama has argued that there will be no comprehensive solution to Islamist terrorism until Islam reconciles itself to modernity and undergoes some of the reforms that have changed Christianity.
Though he has argued, controversially, that the Middle East’s conflicts “date back millennia,” he also believes that the intensified Muslim fury of recent years was encouraged by countries considered friends of the U.S. In a meeting during apec with Malcolm Turnbull, the new prime minister of Australia, Obama described how he has watched Indonesia gradually move from a relaxed, syncretistic Islam to a more fundamentalist, unforgiving interpretation; large numbers of Indonesian women, he observed, have now adopted the hijab, the Muslim head covering.
Why, Turnbull asked, was this happening?
Because, Obama answered, the Saudis and other Gulf Arabs have funneled money, and large numbers of imams and teachers, into the country. In the 1990s, the Saudis heavily funded Wahhabist madrassas, seminaries that teach the fundamentalist version of Islam favored by the Saudi ruling family, Obama told Turnbull. Today, Islam in Indonesia is much more Arab in orientation than it was when he lived there, he said.
“Aren’t the Saudis your friends?,” Turnbull asked.
Monday, March 7, 2016
Early Medieval Muslim Graves in France: First Archaeological, Anthropological and Palaeogenomic Evidence
Monday, March 07, 2016
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On the outskirts of the ancient Roman city of Nimes in southern France, archaeologists have discovered the graves of three Muslim men that date...
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Majoritarianism-driven democracy and the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey
Sunday, March 06, 2016
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Turkey has become a rogue state - and even Erdogan must face up to the fact Under the AKP government, in power since 2002,...
Friday, March 4, 2016
Responding to UNSC expression of "grave concern for the worsening situation in Yemen", Saudi Arabia says: no dire humanitarian crisis
Friday, March 04, 2016
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| Saudi Arabia has been accused of committing war crimes in Yemen |
Saudi Arabia's UN ambassador said Friday there was no need for a UN Security Council resolution to address the dire humanitarian crisis in Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition is waging a military campaign.
"We don't think that a resolution is needed at this time," Ambassador Abdallah al-Mouallimi told a news conference.
His remarks came after the 15-member council expressed grave concern for the worsening situation in Yemen, where the coalition launched air strikes nearly a year ago...
"We don't think that a resolution is needed at this time," Ambassador Abdallah al-Mouallimi told a news conference.
His remarks came after the 15-member council expressed grave concern for the worsening situation in Yemen, where the coalition launched air strikes nearly a year ago...
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