Word: rashodi
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...contrast, Suleiman Rashodi, a winning fundamentalist candidate backed by Al Awdah, exulted in the outcome. "My friend, this is an Islamic country," he told Time. "Liberals are far from our society. They are like the West." Rashodi calls bin Laden "a good Muslim," though he says he disagrees with his global jihad...
...Rashodi has plenty of company. While many Saudis soured on al-Qaeda after the violence struck home with a terror spree starting in May 2003, a poll published last year said 48.7% still had a positive opinion of bin Laden's rhetoric. Al Awdah, the radical sheikh who has joined with bin Laden in political causes in the past, continues to rail against social reform in Saudi Arabia, saying there is "no place for secularism in the Muslim world" and calling attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq "a religious duty...
...Rashodi believes that Islam and democracy are compatible, so long as elections don't contravene strict Islamic teaching. But this election - in which women could not vote and men were choosing only half the council members, with the rest to be appointed - also underscore the contradictions of U.S. policy in the region. In his State of the Union speech this month, U.S. President George W. Bush lectured the Saudi monarchy, calling for "expanding the role of its people in determining their future." But the trouble with elections is that you have to live with their results. And this one suggests...
...their part, conservatives were brimming with confidence even before the results were announced. ?My friend, this is an Islamic country,? Suleiman Rashodi, a winning candidate who spent four months in prison in 1995 for militant activities, said as he relaxed at his east Riyadh home after voting. ?Liberals are far from our society. They are like the West...
...Other candidates parted with hundreds of thousands of dollars, appealing to voters with lavish nightly lamb-and-rice banquets under canvas tents and ubiquitous billboards on Riyadh's modern highways. With political parties banned, the candidates broke roughly into four categories: urbane liberals like al Ammari; Islamic fundamentalists like Rashodi; Saudi tribesmen and plain opportunists - real estate developers were notable among those scrambling for council posts that might give them insights into zoning plans...
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