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To: Pokey78
"Saudi ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah...He needs to break heads at home, force some sustained reforms on his religious establishment"

Case closed. The rest of the article is trash.

4 posted on 05/24/2003 5:16:58 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: bigfootbob; Pokey78
No, the NYT is trying to help:

He needs to break heads at home, force some sustained reforms on his religious establishment, revive his own peace initiative and begin to empower his women — because women's empowerment is the best antidote to extremism.

More empowerment fatwa from Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi:

One of the leading Muslim scholars has issued a fatwa permitting women to carry out suicide attacks. . . snip . . "This obligation reaches the extent that a woman should go out for jihad even without the permission of her husband, and the son without the consent of his parents," he added.

7 posted on 05/24/2003 5:41:05 PM PDT by cornelis
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