by Daniel Pipes January 11, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner A survey conducted in seven Muslim-majority countries (Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Pakistan) finds that a median of 10 percent of the respondents prefer women to wear either a niqab (#2) or burqa (#1) when in public. The specific […]
It is worthy paying close attention when a certain Saudi prince speaks his mind. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal is sometimes described as the most powerful Arab in the world, thanks to his enormous wealth, business acumen, and influence in the Saudi royal family, which runs the Kingdom as a family fiefdom. Western-educated, he has shown […]
With all the time that the Saudis have been trying to take us over, you might have thought that they would be a little more familiar with liberals. Apparently not. “We are glad the Americans are here,” said Ahmed al-Ibrahim, an adviser to some of Saudi Arabia’s royals and officials, when I met with him […]
Iraq’s rising violence and concerns of an all-out sectarian war appears set to flare up even further, as Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki recently ordered Muslim prayers to be directed to the Shi’ite holy city Karbala, instead of Mecca. Karabala is where Imam Al-Hussein, a Shi’ite “martyr” who refused to surrender the Islamic Caliphate to Sunni […]
Western states have held their first “face-to-face” discussions with Syria’s main Islamist rebel groups, according numerous media reports. The meeting between western states, including the US, and the Syrian Islamic Front (SIF), was attended by Turkish and Qatari representatives and was held in the Turkish capital Ankara. It marks a shift in policy for US […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times December 3, 2013 The “Joint Plan of Action” signed with Iran by the so-called P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the U.K., and the U.S.) on Nov. 24 in Geneva caused Shiite Arabs to celebrate, Sunni Arabs to worry, and Saudis to panic. The Saudi response will have far-reaching and […]
A senior advisor to the Saudi royal family has accused its Western allies of deceiving the oil rich kingdom in striking the nuclear accord with Iran and said Riyadh would follow an independent foreign policy. Nawaf Obaid told a think tank meeting in London that Saudi Arabia was determined to pursue its own foreign and […]
A video apparently showing the brutal beating of a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia has gone viral, and once again shone a spotlight on the issue of human rights violations in the gulf kingdom. The victim – who the publisher of the video claims is an Indian national – can be seen pleading for his life as his […]
Just days after Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry threatened to use force to stop women violating a ban on female drivers, one man has come up with a creative way to protest the laws, which rights groups have slammed as discriminatory. Hisham Fageeh, who describes himself as “an artist and a social activist”, released an accapella rendition […]
It’s not a joke or some satire from the Onion. It’s the United Nations. And it’s that punchline to the joke that the UN protects human rights that is the UN Human Rights Council, which is always ready to condemn human rights abusers like Canada, Australia and America… but has a kind word for defenders […]
