Word: wahabis
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...Despite the fact that popular perceptions of the conflict were at variance with the government's policy of limited and quiet assistance to the U.S forces, the agreement between the monarchy and the puritanical Wahabi religious establishment appears to have held fast...
...World Trade Center bombing in New York City. Both Yousef and Abu Sayyaf founder Janjalani may have received training in the early 1990s at a commando camp near Khost, in Afghanistan. It was run by a professor of Islam Abdur Rab Rasul Sayyaf, whose belief in the strict Wahabi interpretation of Islam found him favor with many wealthy Saudis, including Osama bin Laden, No. 1 on America's list of most dangerous terrorists...
...prefab housing for their workers. Turnover is high among foreign workers. The Saudis imported thousands of Egyptians only to see them leave after saving up their high wages for a few months. Europeans and Americans are often bored by austere moral standards imposed by Saudi Arabia's ascetic Wahabi sect of Islam...
...education budget has gone up tenfold. Saud has donated at least ten of his 24 palaces for schools. At King Saud's Sons' Institute, inside the Naziriyah compound, children of slaves sit next to young princes. Risking the displeasure of the austere Wahabi sect of Islam, which believes that woman's place is in the harem and behind the veil, Tariki has put several thousand girls in school...
Other easing of the harsh Wahabi code can be seen at every hand. Goal posts stand far out in the desert for the benefit of passing nomads who have taken up soccer. Thieves now get their right hands chopped off in the public square only after the third offense. A doctor first administers a local anesthetic, bandages the stump, and then rushes the convict off by ambulance to a hospital, where, like all Saudis, he gets free medical care. The penalty for adultery is still death by stoning, but there has not been an execution in a decade...