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Petition to Release Hadi al-Mutif from Prison
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - January 19th marked another year for the longest religious imprisonment of a man in Saudi Arabia: one of the world's most religiously extreme countries, where the international and local media took stance on this…
NY Post: On Middle East, O Must Copy W
In his June 2009 Cairo speech on US-Islamic reconciliation, President Obama dedicated 1,020 words to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, only 375 to promoting democratic ideals. That reflected a U-turn from the priorities of…
NY Times: Unrest Encircles Saudis, Stoking Sense of Unease
WASHINGTON — As pro-democracy uprisings spread across the Middle East, the rulers of Saudi Arabia — the region’s great bulwark of religious and political conservatism — are feeling increasingly isolated and concerned that the United…
Video available from “Al-Qaeda Triangle” event
On Wednesday, December 5, The Institute for Gulf Affairs and the Jamestown Foundation co-hosted a conference entitled "The al-Qaeda Triangle: Pakistan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia," featuring a keynote address by Ahmed Rashid. The event…
Arab News: Fewer textbooks
The current school year at the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Virginia began with fewer textbooks after US pressure groups accused the school of inciting violence through its curriculum, a development that raises concerns about the…
Saudi Royal Support for Terrorists Continues from New York
When President Barak Obama said in his inauguration speech that "Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred," he didn't expect that in the immediate future such a network would be operating from…
Gulf Institute in Associated Press on Saudi School Books
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — An Islamic school in northern Virginia with close ties to the Saudi government has revised its religious textbooks in an effort to end years of criticism that the school fosters hatred and intolerance.
While the…
Gulf Institute in the Washington Post on Saudi Textbooks
A Saudi-funded academy was granted a zoning exemption Monday that allows it to expand at its 34-acre Popes Head Road campus in Fairfax County, culminating a years-long campaign to enlarge the school at that location.
Hearings this…
The Lowell Sun – Amnesty International report focuses more light on abuses
Amnesty International recently released a report about the systemic human-rights abuses taking place in Saudi Arabia. The report focused on how the al Saud family condones the arrests of thousands of civilians under the ruse of combating…
Why civilian trials for Al-Qaeda are wrong
President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have made the decision to give the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) andfour others -Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali -…