http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/saudi/ en-us Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:02:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts Al-Qaeda Draws New Recruits Via Internet Al-Qaeda is using the Internet to recruit vulnerable young people to its terrorist network, according to a programme aired on Saudi Arabian TV late on Tuesday. Umm Osama, the founder of al-Qaeda's first women-only website, al-Khansa, joined several others on the programme to discuss how they renounced jihadist ideology. Among those who sought a response to this question was an imam from the Medina mosque, Saleh Ibn Awad al-Mudamsi, and the father of a young al-Qaeda suspect held in an Iraqi prison. Read More Qaeda Targets U.S. Oil Interests in North Africa U.S.... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:02:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2047105/posts U.S. imam calls for Neturei Karta ban at Saudi-run interfaith conference. by Walter Ruby Special to The Jewish Week Madrid­­­— A top American Muslim leader and American Jewish groups formed an unlikely alliance this week against a fiercely anti-Zionist chasidic group at an interfaith conference in Madrid, spearheaded by Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah. Dr. Sayyid Syeed, national director of the Islamic Society of North America, said he was upset by the planned participation in the conference, which opened this week, of Rabbi Yisrael Dovid Weiss, a representative of Neturei Karta from upstate Monsey. Rabbi Weiss was to be the only... The Jewish Week http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2047105/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:16:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047080/posts MADRID (AFP) - Women have historically suffered discrimination in the name of religion, and the world's great faiths must do more to encourage gender equality, theologians told a seminar at a Saudi-organised conference Thursday. "Women have been forgotten and marginalised in religions," Juan Jose Tamayo, director of theology at Madrid's Juan Carlos III university, told a roundtable on the second day of the World Conference of Dialogue in Madrid, aimed at bringing the great monotheistic faiths closer together. "They are organised hierarchically and patriarchically, excluding women in all fields of knowledge and religious matters." Now, at the start of the... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047080/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:31:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041186/posts Updated at: 2145 PST, Saturday, July 05, 2008 RIYADH: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whose country is home to Islam's holiest shrines, will launch an inter-faith conference in Spain later this month, the palace said on Saturday. The Saudi monarch "will inaugurate the international dialogue conference which will be held under his auspices in Madrid on July 16-18," a statement carried by the official news agency said. The agency said the king had left for Morocco on a private visit ahead of the conference due to be attended by Christians, Jews and Muslims. In March, King Abdullah proposed talks among... International The News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041186/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:07:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039254/posts King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whose nation is the world's number one oil exporter, called on consumer countries to get used to high prices in comments published on Tuesday. "Consumer countries have to adapt to the prices and the mechanisms of the market," the king said in an interview published by the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassah. " Breitbart.com, via Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039254/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:56:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038045/posts Saudis press United States to put an end to rate cuts American Account Irwin Stelzer SO the Federal Reserve Board’s monetary policy committee (technically, the Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC) has decided to leave interest rates as they are - which is far less important than how it arrived at that decision. What follows is a combination of hard fact and my own surmise, mixed together so as to shield the usual highly placed, reliable source. There is something called “the Fed family”. It’s not as shady as a mafia family, but far more powerful. Members include chairman Ben... Times of London http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038045/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:07:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036929/posts Dr. Ahmad Al-Mub'i, a Saudi Marriage Officiant: It Is Allowed to Marry a Girl at the Age of One, If Sex Is Postponed. The Prophet Muhammad, Whose Model We Follow, Married 'Aisha When She Was Six and Had Sex with Her When She Was Nine Following are excerpts from an interview with Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi, a Saudi marriage officiant, which aired on LBC TV on June 19, 2008: Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi: Marriage is actually two things: First we are talking about the marriage contract itself. This is one thing, while consummating the marriage – having sex with the wife for... Middle East Media Research Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036929/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:30:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2036032/posts Aired on LBC TV (Lebanon) - June 19, 2008 - 00:03:08 : Dr. Ahmad Al-Mub'i, a Saudi Marriage Officiant: It Is Allowed to Marry a Girl at the Age of One, If Sex Is postponed. The Prophet Muhammad, Whose Model We Follow, Married 'Aisha When She Was Six and Had Sex with Her When She Was Nine : (excerpts) Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi: Marriage is actually two things: First we are talking about the marriage contract itself. This is one thing, while consummating the marriage – having sex with the wife for the first time – is another thing. There is... liveleak.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2036032/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:33:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035831/posts Dr. Ahmad Al-Mub'i, a Saudi Marriage Officiant: It Is Allowed to Marry a Girl at the Age of One, If Sex Is postponed. The Prophet Muhammad, Whose Model We Follow, Married 'Aisha When She Was Six and Had Sex with Her When She Was Nine Following are excerpts from an interview with Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi, a Saudi marriage officiant, which aired on LBC TV on June 19, 2008: Dr. Ahmad Al-Mu'bi: Marriage is actually two things: First we are talking about the marriage contract itself. This is one thing, while consummating the marriage – having sex with the wife for... MEMRI TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035831/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:03:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034613/posts Why Saudi Arabia's King Wants to Dampen Oil Prices By Bernhard Zand Consumers aren't the only ones being hit by high oil prices. Now that the oil shock has reached producing countries, Saudi Arabia has called a crisis summit this weekend in an effort to find concerted solutions that could push barrel prices down. Others would be overjoyed to be earning a $1 billion a day, and to have good reason to expect that number to climb to $2 billion a day next year. But Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud seems less than thrilled these days, and the newly tense atmosphere... Der Spiegel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034613/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:39:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030665/posts State Department officials said Thursday they have no plans to close a Saudi-financed Islamic school in Northern Virginia that has failed to eliminate violent and intolerant language in textbooks. "They told us they would revise the textbooks by the 2008 school year," State Department spokesman Rob McInturff said. "We don't plan to take additional action apart from the discussions that have been going on with the Saudi government." Results released Wednesday from a federal investigation into the Islamic Saudi Academy - with campuses in Alexandria and Fairfax - found textbooks at the 900-student private school had passages that blame the... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030665/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:17:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030422/posts The International Energy Agency says Russia has turned into the biggest crude oil producer, a title traditionally belonged to Saudi Arabia. The IEA declared on Tuesday that Russia has been the biggest crude oil producer in the first quarter of 2008, extracting 9.5 million barrels per day, ahead of Saudi Arabia at 9.2 million barrels, AFP reported.  The IEA ranks the United States as the third-biggest producer with 5.1 million barrels per day, followed by Iran, pumping 4 million barrels per day  China is in fifth place with output of 3.8 million barrels per day.  In principle, Russia’s oil bonanza... Tehran Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030422/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:34:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023215/posts Following are excerpts from an interview with former Saudi information minister Muhammad Abduh Al-Yamani, which aired on Iqra TV on May 25, 2008. Interviewer: How come calls for dialogue with [the West] were only made following 9/11? Muhammad Abduh Al-Yamani: The main reason is that we have inadvertently given in to this accusation, and accepted the fact that 9/11 was pinned on us, as if Islam calls for such a thing, but when acts worse than 9/11 were perpetrated by Christians and Jews... Interviewer: Such as? Muhammad Abduh Al-Yamani: Attacks within America itself... Why wasn’t the attack on the White... MEMRI TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023215/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 22:19:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020077/posts Daily oil production on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an area which Congress originally designated for oil exploration when it set up the refuge, is estimated by the Energy Information Administration (Dept. of Energy) to be able to produce approximately 1, 000,000 barrels of crude oil per day. With current imports of foreign oil running over 12,000,000 barrels per day (EIA chart), production of one million barrels of U.S. oil would be an important first step to energy independence. But this is how Senator Charles Schumer dismissed the benefits of ANWR in an April 28 press... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020077/posts#comment Fri, 23 May 2008 03:41:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2017964/posts After 30 years of marriage, cynics might say most husbands and wives would have seen quite enough of each other, thank you very much. But not in the case of one Saudi Arabian man who managed to live with his wife for three decades without setting eyes on her face. Not that he had much choice about it. His 50-year-old wife followed the tradition of her native village near the south-western city of Khamis Mushayt and kept her features veiled at all times. Until one night last month, that is, when the husband was finally overcome by curiosity and tried... The Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2017964/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 10:04:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017716/posts A 50-year-old Saudi woman asked for divorce after her husband lifted her face veil while she was sleeping, local press reported. For 30 years, the wife said she never showed her face to her husband in conformity with the tradition of her native village near the south western Saudi city of Khamis Mushayt. "After all these years, he tries to commit such a big mistake," the wife told Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh, after she left the house in total disbelief. She said the husband apologized and promised never to do it again. This is not the first case of husbands who... Al Arabiya http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017716/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2008 18:26:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016919/posts RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabian leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until their customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices. Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016919/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 16:14:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014092/posts The FINANCIAL -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce raised alarm over legislation introduced by Senator Harry Reid to repeal tax incentives for oil exploration, impose a 25% windfall tax on oil companies, and allow consumers to sue nations that supply oil to the U.S. "Higher taxes and more lawsuits won't lower the price of gas at the pump or make America more energy secure. If this legislation is enacted, Americans must be prepared for potential oil supply disruptions and higher prices for gasoline, home heating oil and natural gas," said Bill Kovacs, vice president of Environment, Technology and Regulatory Affairs... financial Channel - Ukraine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014092/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 17:49:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013817/posts Riyadh: Prominent Saudi Islamic scholar and member of the Senior Scholars' Commission Shaikh Saleh Bin Fauzan Al Fauzan has warned Saudi youths against going to Iraq to fight in the war-torn country. While labelling those who go to fight in Iraq as "preachers of evil," he urged everyone to tell the authorities about such people. Shaikh Al Fauzan was speaking to members of the teaching faculty at Imam Mohammad Bin Saudi Islamic University here on Tuesday. According to the scholar it is obligatory on the part of all to admonish those youths who are eager to go to Iraq to... Gulf News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013817/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 00:20:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007944/posts A controversial British deal to supply Eurofighter jets to Saudi Arabia may have hit an obstacle. It appears that the Eurofighter - long touted as proof that the UK and its continental partners can make serious combat kit without American help - actually contains significant amounts of US technology, and that Washington may not permit the Saudi sale. The revelations come in an article in today's Financial Times. It appears that the British government's application to export American tech on 72 Eurofighters to the desert princes is the subject of some debate both among Capitol Hill politicos and at the... The Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007944/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:23:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007112/posts Next year, if all goes well, Saudi Arabia will turn the spigots on the largest oil field to come online anywhere in the world since the late 1970s. The Khurais complex, sprawling across a swath of red dunes and rocky plains half the size of Connecticut, is expected to add 1.2 million barrels a day to an oil market caught between growing demand and a paucity of significant new discoveries. The twin forces have led to historically high prices for crude oil, which settled at a record $117.48 on Monday. The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007112/posts#comment Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:11:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001145/posts It's amazing what $5 US per gallon of gas can buy... This palace is owned by the family of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the former president of the United Arab Emirates and rule of Abu-Dhabi. My Mom said to always look at the bright side of things -good things these people are doing so 'well'! Joe-ks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001145/posts#comment Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:11:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000353/posts Kingdom Come [Kathryn Jean Lopez] From the Arab News: Al-JOUF, 10 April 2008 — US Ambassador Ford Fraker said in Sakaka that his country aims to double the number of student visas issued to Saudis. “Currently there are 15,000 Saudi students in the US,” he said during an event on Sunday with local business leaders to an audience at the Al-Jouf Chamber of Commerce and Industry. “We aim to increase their numbers to 30,000 over the next five years.” Fraker said Saudi Arabia should bolster its English-language programs because it is generally required for Saudis seeking to pursue higher studies... NRO's The Corner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000353/posts#comment Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:14:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999287/posts US Ambassador Ford Fraker said in Sakaka that his country aims to double the number of student visas issued to Saudis. “Currently there are 15,000 Saudi students in the US,” he said during an event on Sunday with local business leaders to an audience at the Al-Jouf Chamber of Commerce and Industry. “We aim to increase their numbers to 30,000 over the next five years.” Fraker said Saudi Arabia should bolster its English-language programs because it is generally required for Saudis seeking to pursue higher studies in the US. Fraker also stressed the need for popularizing English teaching programs because... Arab News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999287/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:36:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997472/posts Cambridge University has been given £8 million by a Saudi Arabian prince to establish an Islamic studies centre. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, ranked in the top 20 richest men in the world, with a fortune of about £10 billion, has donated the cash to the university to fund a centre in his name for the study of the role of Islam in the Middle East and globally. The gift has been recommended by the university's general board and is expected to be announced in June. advertisement The grandson of King Ibn Saud and nephew of King Abudllah, the prince counts... London Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997472/posts#comment Sun, 6 Apr 2008 05:22:17 GMT