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Top Saudi Cleric Calls For Writers' Deaths -- Saudi Arabia's most revered cleric said in a rare fatwa this week that two writers should be tried for apostasy for their "heretical articles" and put to death if they do not repent. Sheikh Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak was responding to recent articles in al-Riyadh newspaper that questioned the Sunni Muslim view in Saudi Arabia that adherents of other faiths should be considered unbelievers. "Anyone who claims this has refuted Islam and should be tried in order to take it back. If not, he should be killed as an apostate from the religion of Islam," said the fatwa, or religious opinion, dated March 14 and published on Barrak's Web site. |
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3/15/2008 |
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Saudi Islamic Scholar -- "By Allah, we will not be satisfied even if all the Jews are killed" |
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3/13/2008 |
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28 Al-Qaeda Militants Arrested In Kingdom -- Saudi Security forces have arrested 28 militants, who were involved in rebuilding the Al-Qaeda network in Saudi Arabia to launch another campaign of terror across the Kingdom, an Interior Ministry spokesman said in a statement. The militants had been collecting funds on the pretext of supporting the needy in Pakistan and Afghanistan — money that was, in fact, being used "to finance their criminal activities."
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3/4/2008 |
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Uncle Beheads 15-Month-Old Nephew In Saudi Supermarket -- A man beheaded his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in a supermarket in Saudi Arabia apparently after a family dispute, newspapers reported Monday. The 25-year-old Syrian national picked up a knife from the store in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Sunday and decapitated the little boy in full view of shoppers. |
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3/3/2008 |
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Religious Police In Saudi Arabia Arrest (American) Mother For Sitting With A Man -- A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia's religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh. |
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2/7/2008 |
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Saudis Bust Ring Planning Hajj Attack -- Saudi authorities have arrested an Al-Qaeda linked group planning to carry out terrorist attacks during the annual hajj pilgrimage, Al-Arabiya television quoted security officials as saying Friday. |
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12/21/2007 |
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Where Saudis Will Send Their Most Dangerous -- Saudi Arabia reports about a rehabilitation programme for extremists run by the Ministry of the Interior. It is aimed at junior jihadis and some participants have committed terrible crimes. |
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12/18/2007 |
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Hajj Gets Under Way in Saudi Arabia -- Millions of Muslims from around the world gathered in Mecca Sunday for the start of the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage, as the Saudi Interior Ministry announced tough security precautions. |
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12/16/2007 |
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Clinton Library Got Funds From Abroad -- Bill Clinton's presidential library raised more than 10 percent of the cost of its $165 million facility from foreign sources, with the most generous overseas donation ($10 million) coming from Saudi Arabia. |
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12/15/2007 |
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Saudis Give Big To Promote Islamic Studies in U.S. -- This summer, Harvard appointed its Islamic history professor, Roy Mottahedeh, to head its Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program. Harvard is hiring the first of four endowed chairs in the program and is using some of the $20 million to preserve a collection of Islamic documents. |
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12/10/2007 |
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Saudis Release 1,500 Al Qaeda Terrorists on Promise to Be Good -- "After several graded sessions with the committee, and having been convinced of their misguided vision, they renounced their erroneous ideologies, including the concept of driving out all infidels from the Arabian Peninsula," |
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11/27/2007 |
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Justice Ministry: Saudi Gang Rape Victim Was an Adulteress -- The Saudi Justice Ministry announced that a girl gang raped by seven men and then sentenced to six months prison and 200 lashes for adultery had confessed to cheating on her husband, in its latest response to the negative international reaction to the incident. |
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11/25/2007 |
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Saudi Arabia Marks 136th Beheading of 2007 -- Sunday's execution brought to 136 the number of people beheaded in the kingdom this year, according to an Associated Press count. Saudi Arabia beheaded 38 people last year and 83 people in 2005. |
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11/25/2007 |
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Saudis Make Up 41% of Foreign Fighters in Iraq -- More than 40% of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq to join the insurgency in the past year were citizens of Saudi Arabia, America's key partner in the Middle East, according to detailed information seized from a camp used by them. Documents and computers found by the US army at Sinjar, on the Iraqi-Syrian border, revealed that the other single largest group came from Libya, which is now being rehabilitated as a reliable western ally. |
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11/23/2007 |
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Saudi Defends Verdict Against Gang-Rape Victim -- Saudi Arabia defended on Tuesday a court's decision to sentence a woman who was gang-raped to 200 lashes of the whip, after the United States described the verdict as "astonishing". The 19-year-old Shi'ite woman from the town of Qatif in the Eastern Province and an unrelated male companion were abducted and raped by seven men in 2006.
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11/20/2007 |
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Saudi Sheikh: Jihad In Our Era Is A Mistake -- Saudi sheikh Dr. Salaman bin Fahd Al-'Awda has said that jihad in our time has caused more damage than benefit, and that waging jihad now is a mistake vis-à-vis the religion, society, and human life. |
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11/19/2007 |
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Saudi Arabia Is Hub of World Terror -- The desert kingdom supplies the cash and the killers. |
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11/4/2007 |
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Saudi Gitmo Detainees Get Gift -- The Saudi Arabian government will temporarily release 55 prisoners recently transferred from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and will give each of them about $2,600 to celebrate the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, |
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10/6/2007 |
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Saudis Urge E. U. not to Link Terrorism With Islam -- Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) will urge its counterparts in the European Union to ask their governments not to link terrorism to Islam and also to issue regulations to protect Muslims from prejudice and discrimination because of their faith. |
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10/4/2007 |
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Saudis Set Up Force to Guard Oil Plants -- Saudi Arabia has begun setting up a 35,000-strong security force to protect its oil infrastructure from potential attacks. The move underlines the kingdom’s growing concern about its oil installations after threats from al-Qaeda to attack facilities in the Gulf, as well as rising tensions between Iran and the US. |
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8/26/2007 |
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Our Friends the Saudis Arrest Battered Maid in Hospital -- Slavery is alive and well in the religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the slaves are often beaten and abused by “employers.” But a hospital offers no sanctuary from the religious police: Battered Indonesian Maid Held for Questioning. |
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8/22/2007 |
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Shocka! Religious Apartheid Kingdom Confiscates Bibles! -- Despite a series of initiatives aimed at generating foreign tourism, the Saudi Arabian government continues to bar Jews and Christians from bringing items such as Bibles, crucifixes and Stars of David into the country and is threatening to confiscate them on sight. |
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8/8/2007 |
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Georgetown University Imam: Muslims Gaining Strength in U. S. -- Speaking in the world center of Wahhabism, the home country of most of the 9/11 hijackers, Imam Yahya Hendi of Georgetown University said the September 11 attacks helped Muslims to gain strength in the United States. |
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8/5/2007 |
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A Cynical Saudi Solution -- Over 5,000 Saudi Islamic radicals are believed to have died in Iraq so far. For the last four years, up to half the suicide bombers have been Saudis, and about half the 135 foreigners currently held in U.S. military prisons over there, are Saudis. Currently, American intelligence believes about 45 percent of the foreign fighters (less than ten percent of all terrorists there) are Saudis. |
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7/19/2007 |
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Nearly Half of Arrested Jihadis Are Saudi Citizens -- Our allies in Saudi Arabia have been running a scam on us ever since September 11, 2001, claiming that they’ve cracked down on the jihad preachers who spread “deviant” ideas. What they’ve cracked down on is the reporting of those hate sermons; there used to be sources on the web where you could find translations, but all of the ones I formerly used have now dried up. (If you think that means the sermons have stopped, I have some prime swampland in Florida you might be interested in.) |
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7/17/2007 |
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Saudis Prepare to Behead Teenage Maid -- The imminent execution of a teenage maid in Saudi Arabia drew fierce criticism yesterday and provoked condemnation of the kingdom's prolific use of capital punishment. The case has brought fresh attention to the draconian Saudi criminal justice system which is expected this year to set a new record in its use of the death sentence. |
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7/17/2007 |
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As Teen Girl Awaits Death, Saudi Surge in Beheadings Could Set Record High -- Rizana Nafeek, a 19-year old housemaid from Sri Lanka, is on death row because the baby in her care died while she was bottle-feeding him. If her appeal is turned down, she will taken to a public square to be publicly beheaded. The Sri Lankan government says it is working for a reprieve, and has until Monday to file the plea. A last-minute pardon by the infant's parents could also spare her. But if her execution goes ahead, it will be the latest in a surge of beheadings that could surpass the kingdom's record of 191 in 2005. |
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7/14/2007 |
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Saudi Police Arrest 3 Alleged Al-Qaeda-Linked Militants Who Used Internet to Spread Message -- Saudi police have arrested three men suspected of links to al-Qaeda, alleging they used the Internet to plan terrorist attacks, recruit supporters and publish tracts on militant ideology, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday. |
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6/5/2007 |
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Beware the Axis of Allies -- "The real enemy in the Global War on Terror is not the Axis of Evil but the Axis of Allies. Today, the countries most likely to produce another 9/11 are not Iran, much less North Korea, but countries long regarded as (after Israel) America's most reliable allies in the Greater Middle East. Step forward Saudi Arabia (almost certainly still the biggest source of funding for radical Islamists) and Pakistan (very definitely their one-stop shop for nuclear weaponry)," he elaborates. |
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6/2/2007 |
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Al Qaeda Today -- For several years after the terrorist attacks on September 11, [bin Laden and al Qaeda's "core" group] were engaged in little else than avoiding capture and fleeing the American-led offensive in Afghanistan.
Today, by contrast, they are probably secure enough to give strategic direction to al-Qa'eda cells across the world. |
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5/31/2007 |
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This Is Islam. You Can't Get Out -- You are not allowed the mental freedom to leave. If Islam did not promote the habit of mental submission, severe limits on artistic expression, hatred of, and war-making upon Infidels, the deliberate infliction of a state of permanent humiliation, degradation, and physical insecurity on Infidels, if it did none of those awful things, but only -- only -- prevented those born into Islam from leaving Islam, that alone would entitle us to see it as a totalitarian and cruel belief-system, and to regard it with permanent wariness and worry. |
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5/30/2007 |
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Our friends the Saudis: 'Islamophobia the worst form of terrorism' |
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5/16/2007 |
