Word: khashoggi
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...Last month's election enthusiasm in Iraq didn't prove contagious, with only a quarter of eligible Saudis bothering to sign up for the vote in the greater Riyadh region, the start a three-stage election that will run through April. Nonetheless, argues Saudi commentator Jamal Khashoggi, ?the culture of democracy is being introduced into Saudi Arabia.? Al Ammari, 55, a U.S.-educated food company executive and liberal reformer, agrees. ?This election gave me the chance to raise my voice...
...that can lead to violence. After the May 12 attacks, the newspaper al-Watan made just that link in a series of articles and cartoons. That proved to be too much for the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars. After it complained to Prince Abdullah, al-Watan's editor, Jamal Khashoggi, was fired. That, however, has not silenced Turki al-Hamad, a Saudi columnist for the London-based paper Asharq al-Awsat. "The official clergy in Saudi Arabia denounce violence, but the theoretical base of Wahhabism is a problem," says al-Hamad. "It is not enhancing or encouraging violence directly...
Diplomats had begun calling it the "Riyadh Spring," so remarkable was the recent willingness of Saudi Arabia's press to challenge the kingdom's powerful religious establishment. Unfortunately, it didn't last. Jamal Khashoggi, the loudest of the critics, was removed last week as editor of the leading Arabic daily Al Watan after he angered conservative Islamic leaders...
...Khashoggi, 45, began kicking up controversy in March when Al Watan accused the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of abusing its powers. Its bearded, zealous cops spend much of their time patrolling streets and shopping malls to make sure that women are veiled, men are kneeling at prayer time and teenagers aren't flirting. Al Watan reported that one of its own reporters had been detained merely for growing his hair too long. Another story alleged that the morals cops had arrested and beaten a woman just for accepting a car ride from...
...covered the criminal bribery case against him. There's no direct evidence linking Berlusconi to the ouster, but the left-leaning daily La Repubblica said it must be viewed as part of a "climate of siege" Berlusconi created in the media world. In Saudi Arabia, the ouster of Jamal Khashoggi as editor of the Arabic daily Al Watan signaled the end of "Riyadh Spring" - the new willingness to criticize the kingdom's powerful religious establishment in the wake of last month's al-Qaeda attacks. Khashoggi was the loudest of the critics. "We used to say that...