one cannot help but question whether the Saudi king's announcement is a genuine attempt at reform or just another maneuver to ease domestic and global pressure on the royal family for at least four more years. The king avoided any mention of some actions he could have taken immediately to eliminate the relegation of women to the margins of society. Allowing women to drive and abolishing the institutionalized equivalent of slavery, the male guardian system, would improve women's lot much more quickly than permitting them to vote in cosmetic municipal elections four years from now.
Customized and Misleading Elections
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while in prison that the Wahhabi doctrine is the source of terrorism. He not only turned against what he was brainwashed into promoting, defending, and dying for, but actively sought to get rid of it. "The most recent government crackdown on terrorism suspects, in response to this month's {in 2003} car-bombing of a compound housing foreigners and Arabs in Riyadh, is missing the real target. The real problem is that Saudi Arabia is bogged down by deep-rooted Islamic extremism in most schools and mosques, which have become breeding grounds for terrorists. We cannot solve the terrorism problem as long as it is endemic to our educational and religious institutions."
These glaring warnings and repeated appeals from prominent Muslims to the international community to defeat the pervasive Saudi-Wahhabi doctrine are a clear call for decisive responses. However, the West, which is the target of the Islamist threats, has yet to accept that it's engaged in a war with an Islamist ideology dedicated to the destruction of Western Civilization. It's not the intent of this writer to advocate a war with Muslims, but to underscore this threat and to highlight the need for policies and actions on the part of Western democracies to insure the eradication of the major root cause of terrorism, the Saudi-Wahhabi ideology. Occasional drone strikes and diplomatic appeasement will only lead the terrorists, their financiers and beneficiaries to believe that the West is weak and vulnerable, thus encouraging them to escalate their terror attacks.
The most effective and direct tactic to confront the root cause of terrorism as advocated by prominent and knowledgeable people who have experienced and understand the nature and underpinnings of Wahhabism is to eradicate it at its source. This effort will not only require the autocratic and theocratic Saudi elites to re-interpret the Quran and the Shariah law to reflect modern values-globalization, technological advancement, women's rights, tolerance of other faiths, international declarations on human rights, freedom of choice and expressions-but must terminate the Saudi ideological influence worldwide. Saudi text books must be rewritten to reflect these contemporary interpretations and scientific advancement. In addition, Saudi religious, educational and judicial institutions must be transformed from the top down in order to stop the spread of the deadly Wahhabi ideology.
Some argue that King Abdullah has made changes to rein in extremist activities. King Abdullah has removed a few clerics and some inflammatory phrases from Saudi schools' text books, eliminated some terrorists in Saudi Arabia and convened interfaith dialogues. While these activities are considered reforms by some, especially in the West, others see them as deceptive window dressing to silence foreign and domestic critics of the debauched Saudi state- imposed doctrine, Wahhabism.
In reality, under King Abdullah's leadership, Islamist religious fervor has been heightened as a result of implicit and explicit Saudi accusations that the West is engaged in a war against Islam. He has strengthened the Saudi clerics by making it illegal to criticize them domestically and has united Muslim countries, including Iran and Turkey, through the Organization of Islamic Cooperation which consists of 57 states and is headquartered in Saudi Arabia. Spread of Wahhabism throughout the world has been exponentially intensified under King Abdullah more than under any of his predecessors.
The Saudization of Egyptian Revolution
CDHR Analysis: The Saudization of Egypt has begun with the intent of derailing democratic transition or preventing it from taking root for years to come. According to the article below (link in Arabic), 120 new Saudi companies have been established since the Egyptian Revolution on Jan. 25, 2011. They are investing in every sector of the Egyptian economy where many poverty-stricken Egyptians will be hired to make a living, which is understandable and can be appreciated. The major problem with this is, wherever Saudi money goes, Wahhabism follows and swallows.
The West could easily beat the Saudi and other Gulf States' investment in Egypt. Western governments and companies are in positions to introduce projects that could demonstrate to the Egyptians that democracy, free market and creativity are superior to landlord-dominated businesses under dehumanizing conditions. Investing in Egypt with the intent of introducing to the individual liberty to think and create freely is a commodity that money cannot buy. This is an opportunity that the West and other democratic governments and companies should not let fall into the hands of those whose objective is to ensure the continuity of oppression, corruption, intolerance, lack of respect for basic human rights, marginalization of women and hate for non-Muslims, including the more than 10 million Egyptian Christians.
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http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/01/169549.html
Saudi-Iranian Competing Autocracies
CDHR Analysis: Despite their public pronouncements and overt disputes, the Saudi and Iranian autocracies share the same objectives: to prevent democracy from taking root in their and other Arab and Muslim countries. Their overriding goal is to severely undermine Western democratic influence, especially that of the US, in Arab and Muslim countries. They consider democracy a mortal threat to their oppressive rule. The Saudi and Iranian regimes compete over the hearts and minds of oppressed Muslims, including their own, and use whatever they can to outdo each other by painting themselves as the protectors of Islam and Muslims worldwide.
The autocratic Saudi rulers accuse Iran of trying to annex the weak but wealthy Arab States around the Persian Gulf, of drawing the Iraqis to their side and of trying to overpower the Saudis' Sunni allies in Lebanon as well as in Gaza, Yemen and Afghanistan, among other places. The Iranian theocrats accuse the Saudi monarchs of being American agents and of collaborating with the US against the Palestinians and Muslim interests. On his way home after addressing the UN General Assembly in late September 2011, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited two Sunni Arab states, Mauritania and Sudan. Standing next to Sudan's President Hassan Al-Bashir, a well- known butcher of his countrymen, women and children, Ahmadinejad promised to stand firm against the US pressures and sanctions, a speech he repeats when visiting Arab and Muslim countries.
Al-Bashir declared, "We will work together to build a relationship based on cooperation and respect and mutual benefits, and we are looking forward to closer cooperation with Iran." In response, the Iran delegation declared that Iran is "ready to transfer its experience in the science and manufacturing sectors, especially technical and engineering services, to improve Sudan's infrastructure." Presently, Iran is spending $200 million on different projects in Sudan.
The Saudis see Iran's increasing influence among some Sunni Muslims as a threat to their dominance in the Greater Middle East. Petrified by the Arab Revolt's spell over and Iran's increasing influence in the region, the Saudis are forging alliances with other absolute Arab monarchs and strengthening their bilateral relations with Turkey and Pakistan, two nuclear Sunni Muslim states. These public maneuvers by the Saudi and Iranian despots do not reflect their true intentions and common objectives. They sit side by side at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, cooperate within OPEC and exchange high officials' visits, in addition to thriving trade, art and cultural exchanges.
Fully cognizant of their unpopularity at home and fearful of popular uprising, the Saudi and Iranian theocracies need as many external enemies to blame for their failures as they can garner. They need to blame each other to justify their draconian practices at home and to strengthen their legitimacy regionally as much as they need extremists and terrorists to extract favorable global recognition and support. Ahmadinejad's recent visit to Mauritania and Sudan (two Sunni Arab states) and Sudan President Hassan Al-Bashir's support for Iran's nuclear program are designed to show the Saudi royals that Iran can recruit Arab allies against the Saudi monarchy.
By design or by accident, the Saudi-Iranian feud is contaminating Arab and Muslim attitude toward Western democratic influence in Arab and Muslim countries and communities. Given Saudi and Iranian cooperation within major organizations such as OPEC and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and knowing the devious behavior and practices of these two most theocratic and autocratic regimes, this may not be accidental.
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http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NzA0MTg0MDM2NQ
Thankful Libyans Welcomed Their Non-Arab Liberators
CDHR's Analysis: Those who doubt the Arab people's yearning for liberation from the yoke of religious and political oppression should have watched the visit by two non-Arab heads of state to Tripoli, Libya on September 15, 2011. The president of France, Sarkozy, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Cameron, were accorded a resounding liberating hero's welcome by jubilant Libyans. Amongst a roaring public, the two heads of non-Muslim states assured the Libyan people of continued support for their hard-won revolt against the former Arab tyrant, Gaddafi.
One can only imagine what kind of reception King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia or any of the other ruling dynasties of the Gulf States would receive if any of them risk visiting Bahrain now or in the near future.
The Libyan people's appreciation for Sarkozy and Cameron should have sent a clear and chilling message to the remaining Arab autocracies like the Saudi royals. Not only should Arab dictators be worried about their people's hunger for freedom, but the recipients of Arab regimes' largess in the West should rethink their allegiance to an irreversible fading era in the Arab world. Arab regimes' apologists in the West continue to insist that most Arabs and Muslims are content to be semi slaves to their religion, culture and their absolute rulers.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14934352
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