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...contributions from foreign nationals, currently illegal, would be part of the deal.) Global voting would create exciting geopolitical swings and counterswings and drive up ratings for America's television networks. Picture the scene on election night: the early results have just started trickling in from the Republican stronghold of Saudi Arabia; hold on a second, though, Germany has started voting and it's looking good for Kerry; wait, Icelandic environmentalists are going with Nader. Sure, there's a chance the crucial European vote could swing the election, but at least the loser would have the satisfaction of blaming the French...
Luxury quotient: Al-Sabah continues to expand despite a volatile political situation. Bombay is next, followed by a store and a 50-room hotel in Bahrain. Al-Sabah says he plans to launch in Vietnam, Singapore and Saudi Arabia...
...accommodate the influence of democratic ideals and Western culture. In this, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, had it right when he declared that Islam is inseparable from politics. In three Islamic countries whose destinies are vital to the security of the U.S.--Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the Ayatullah's Iran--the political future is very much up for grabs...
...continuing clampdown on reformers has left Saudi modernizers distraught. "If you have a society draped with religion, of course you will reach this point of extremism," says Turki al-Hamad, a Saudi novelist and newspaper columnist. The voices of moderation, al-Hamad says, have almost no public spaces in the kingdom--no broadcast networks, no radio stations and few mosques--in which to voice their views. The extremists, meanwhile, feel no such constraints. The day before an attack by al-Qaeda militants on a compound in Khobar in late May that killed 22 people, the imam at the mosque...
...Conservative religious parties have gained partial control of two provinces, the Northwest Frontier and Baluchistan, to which many Taliban and al-Qaeda fled from Afghanistan. The U.S. and other international donors have pumped millions of dollars into the Pakistani education system in an effort to draw students away from Saudi-funded fundamentalist madrasahs, or religious schools, where 1.5 million Pakistani children spend nearly all their time memorizing the Koran in Arabic, even though few Pakistanis speak the language. Pakistanis say that so far the government has failed to build new secular schools that would provide an alternative to the madrasahs...