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	Life under Taliban rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although boxing was not banned, Afghan boxers were unable to compete internationally under Taliban rule, because the Taliban banned men from shaving their beards.
		In 1999, in accordance with the rules of Islamic Sharia, the Taliban issued ten directives to all non-Muslims, namely that Hindus and Sikhs, living in Afghanistan.
		Non-Muslims were prohibited from building any new places of worship, prohibited from speaking out against Islam, and required to hang a two-meter yellow cloth from their house.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Life_under_Taliban_rule (501 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the lands under Muslim rule, Islamic law required that Jews and Christians be allowed to practice their religions and run their own affairs, subject to certain disabilities, the most important being a poll tax that they were required to pay.
		Under the medieval caliphate, and again under the Persian and Turkish dynasties, the empire of Islam was the richest, most powerful, most creative, most enlightened region in the world, and for most of the Middle Ages Christendom was on the defensive.
		In a series of campaigns, they carried their rule and their faith to much of central and eastern Arabia, before being rebuffed, at the end of the eighteenth century, by the Ottoman sultan, whom the Saudi ruler had denounced as a backslider from the true faith and a usurper in the Muslim state.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/011119fa_FACT2 (8153 words)

	Saudi Arabia
		Under the Hanbali interpretation of Shari'a law, judges may discount the testimony of people who are not practicing Muslims or who do not adhere to the correct doctrine.
		Under the law, children of Saudi fathers are considered Muslim, regardless of the country or the religious tradition in which they may have been raised.
		Children under the age of 18 may not be employed in hazardous or harmful industries, such as mining or industries employing power-operated machinery.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/nea/8296.htm (12238 words)

	Coyote Candor : Coyote Candor
		Saudi Arabia was, and still probably is, one of the less strict and more enlightened among the nations in the Middle East, at least from a Westerner's point of view.
		The government of Saudi Arabia is an autocracy.
		This is not the case at all in Saudi Arabia.
	home.alltel.net /coyoteden/archives/2004/05/entry_13.html (931 words)

	Saudi Chains of Oppression
		The exclusion of Saudi women from the decision-making process and participation in the building of their country's institutions, especially the educational curriculum, is one of the reasons extremist ideologues teach school children hate of other people, their religions and democratic values.
		The Saudi wing was given the authority over the economic, political and security operation and the Wahhabis were put in charge of the religious, social and educational institutions.
		The Saudi reforms hitherto have been artificial, meaningless, misleading and designed to strengthen the status quo and neutralize the Saudi reformers' efforts to expose the tyrannical policies of the Saudi ruling princes.
	www.aina.org /news/20060111113326.htm (1658 words)

	The Religious Policeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		I think the discussion was prompted by this young Saudi woman, who had been denied her internet rights by her caring male relatives.
		If every Saudi woman were like her, the streets would be buzzing with women driving to each others' houses, shops, schools and of course the places where they work, wearing bright clothing and sporting bare faces with makeup.
		And, sadly, a link to a Saudi woman who will no longer be able to blog for the moment, thanks to the men in her life.
	muttawa.blogspot.com (5080 words)

	Human Rights Watch - Saudi Arabia - Migrant Workers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		I could not explain that life.” A woman in a village in India, whose son was beheaded following a secret trial, could only say this: “We have no more tears, our tears have all dried up.” She deferred to her husband to provide the account of their son’s imprisonment and execution in Jeddah.
		In an important sense, this report is an indictment of unscrupulous private employers and sponsors as well as Saudi authorities, including interior ministry interrogators and shari’a court judges, who operate without respect for the rule of law and the inherent dignity of all men and women, irrespective of gender, race, and religion.
		Saudi authorities must also recognize that many migrant workers are simply too afraid to report abusive treatment for fear of alienating sponsors or de facto employers, inviting retaliatory punishment, and losing their jobs.
	www.hrw.org /mideast/saudi/labor (2489 words)

	Human Rights and Women in Iraq: Voices of Iraqi Women.
		We have come together to speak up about the suffering of the Iraqi people under his regime and their yearning to be liberated.
		My name is Esra, and my dad was a former general in the Iraqi army, and we lived in the south of Iraq and he was involved in the uprising against Saddam after losing two of his brothers that were executed for an unknown reason, and family members, and so on and so forth.
		The troops had already left, so we had to remain on the Saudi border for three days without food and shelter until a decision was made for us to be taken in Rafha Camp.
	fpc.state.gov /18461.htm (4340 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Let America Be America the Liberator Again! by Stephen Schwartz
		The rulers of the Saudi kingdom now try to confuse Western opinion by proclaiming that they, too, are targets of Osama bin Laden, while their real intent is to mask their own complicity in his financing and organization.
		Saudis claim falsely that exclusion of non-Muslim religious rituals in the Arabian Peninsula reflects Islamic tradition, but Qatar, the only other Wahhabi state, has authorized the erection of new Christian churches, of which there are many in Bahrein, where Jews and Hindus also flourish, and there is a Hindu temple in Oman.
		In recent discussions with dissident Saudi subjects, I have learned that thousands of young people are turning to the peaceful and spiritual form of Islam known as Sufism as an expression of opposition to the Wahhabi dictatorship in their country.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7194 (3776 words)

	Who Are the Insurgents? Sunni Arab Rebels in Iraq by Amatzia Baram: Special Reports: U.S. Institute of Peace
		This insensitivity may be explained by a lack of familiarity with the local language and culture, the stress of having one's life under constant threat, and the difficulty of differentiating between combatants and noncombatants.
		The answer is simple: under the Ba'th regime all non-Ba'thi social and political institutions and civil-society cells except the mosque were wiped out, and tribes have never had large or deeply institutionalized places of mass assembly that could compete with the mosques.
		For example, when Falluja was under the control of the ultraradical insurgents, the dress code they demanded was very close to that ordered by the Taliban, and far stricter than the usual conservative dress code of this religious town.
	www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr134.html (12000 words)

	How does the Saudi relationship with the Bushes affect U.S. foreign policy? By Rachel Bronson and Craig Unger
		They were given preferential treatment to start organizing themselves because Saudi Arabia is a long-standing close partner of the United States and had an ambassador with strong personal ties to each and every president since he became ambassador under Ronald Reagan.
		Saudi Arabia is struggling through enormous problems, some a result of bad domestic decisions, some a result of bad foreign policy decisions, in which we have sometimes been involved.
		In 1964, in a meeting with Lyndon Johnson, Saudi King Feisal lamented that education in the kingdom wasn't good and foreign teachers were pursuing an agenda that wasn't in Saudi Arabia's national interest.
	www.slate.com /id/2103239/entry/2103599 (1649 words)

	DefendAmerica Backgrounder: Bin Laden And his Al Qaeda Network
		The group also was responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, an assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 1995, the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the attack on the destroyer USS Cole in 2000.
		Under the caliphs, the successors of Mohammed, Islam expanded from Arabia through Persia, the Middle East and North Africa.
		He also worked against the Saudi royal family and for that was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/a100501a.html (640 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Scepticism over Saudi reforms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Saudi Crown prince Abd Allah is under pressure to reform
		He was speaking after the Saudi authorities announced they have prepared the ground for electing 178 municipal councils, and would start organising election centres and voter lists later this year.
		The Gulf kingdom has been fighting to quell a challenge to its rule by opponents who say the House of Saud is unfit to govern the country.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/999D4899-A0CE-4CCC-8394-FE94F68E0B2F.htm (703 words)

	WHEN WILL THE JOY RIDE END?
		Some Saudis are resentful of our presence, as we would be if they were building air bases in Nevada.
		The gargantuan 6,000-pound 14-mpg Expeditions that now rule the road are to the car as the T Rex was to the dinosaur: the end of the line.
		LIFE IN 2050 By 2050 a world of perhaps 9 billion people will be consuming only as much oil as 3 billion did in 1950.
	dieoff.org /page138.htm (5133 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		To preserve the life of the reservoir, water is injected into the rock to replace the pressure created by the oil." The Missan province, also in the south of the country, is planning some major energy developments:
		Progress is also being made in improving the health of Iraqi children, who suffered greatly under the sanctions regime throughout the 1990s so that Saddam could make a political point.
		More than three million children under the age of five have now been immunized and children are also now receiving twice-yearly doses of Vitamin A, which are expected to reduce child mortality rates by more than 20%.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110006050 (10763 words)

	Islamic Law, known as "Shariah": primary source of persecution of Christians.
		Under the fourth caliph, `All, the Prophet's cousin and husband of his daughter Fatima, the community was torn in two.
		Under the Shariah laws in Afghanistan, the Taliban's religious police, formally known as the Department for Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue, enforce the Shariah laws.
		Saudi Arabia July 17, 1998, Under Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islamic law, observance of any religious worship other than Islam is illegal and Christians can be arrested for either distributing Christian materials or attending private meetings for Christian worship.
	www.bible.ca /islam/islam-kills-islamic-law-shariah.htm (1428 words)

	Saudi Arabian Airlines . . . A New World of Choices
		Welcome to World Holidays, Saudi Arabian Airlines' tour packages offering you a whole range of choices: shop in the bazaars of the Far East, pace the ancient buildings of Europe and get on the wild rides of America's great theme parks.
		Saudi Arabian Airlines offers its Premiere Collection, top quality premiere service that involve some of the best hotels, apartments and other travel arrangements in the world, whether part of internationally respected groups or independent hideaways.
		Visit ancient civilization in Saudi Arabia or Turkey, boomtowns in Malaysia, or the high-rise modernity of New York.
	www.saudiairlines.com /tours/worldholidays.jsp (834 words)

	USA: The trial of Ahmed Abu Ali - Findings of Amnesty International's trial observation
		He ruled that, because Ahmed Abu Ali was effectively being held in Saudi Arabia at the behest of the USA, the US authorities had to provide the court with evidence of their activities around his arrest, detention and interrogation.
		Their "confessions", shown on Saudi Arabian television in February 2001 before their trial, are reported to have been the main evidence in their conviction and sentencing.
		The statements from Saudi Arabian officials were used as grounds to undermine Ahmed Abu Ali’s own allegations, yet defence lawyers were unable to submit any evidence to rebut the claims of Saudi Arabian officials.
	www.amnestyusa.org /news/document.do?id=ENGAMR511922005 (2561 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| New life for battered Saudi woman
		A Saudi television presenter who was nearly killed by her husband in one of the most publicised cases of domestic violence in the conservative kingdom has written a book about her life.
		Speaking to the BBC in Dubai, Ms Baz said she refused to let that trauma rule her life and that she had moved on since then.
		But she came to international attention when she allowed Saudi papers to print pictures of her after her husband had repeatedly hit her head against a floor causing horrific injuries.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4263874.stm (538 words)

	Saudi Venom in American Mosques -- 02/01/2005
		We watched apprehensively as the Saudi government boasted of funding mosques and research centers; as it announced its support for Islamist organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations; as it trained the imams who became radicalized chaplains in American prisons; and as it introduced Wahhabism to the university campuses via the Muslim Student Association.
		The report's authors correctly find that the publications under review "pose a grave threat to non-Muslims and to the Muslim community itself." The materials instill a doctrine of religious hatred inimical to American culture and serve to produce new recruits to the enemy forces in the war on terrorism.
		That means junking the fantasy of Saudi friendship and seeing the country, like China, as a formidable rival whose ambitions for a very different world order must be both repulsed and contained.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewCommentary.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200502\COM20050201a.html (823 words)

	Daily Blog: Punish the CAFTA 15
		As someone - maybe even here - recently said, the "first rule of holes" is, once you realize that you are in a hole, stop digging so not passing this bill in and of itself is a start.
		Employers can control these workers (preventing their pressing health and safety rules, for example, forget about joining a union) by threatening to withold an eventual green card and for that matter by ending their employment altogether.
		Which is why you should think twice about the "punish the 15" approach to life, because some of those folks -- not all, but some (Meeks as an example), thought through this and saw all kinds of possibilities if we keep our eye on the prize.
	workinglife.typepad.com /daily_blog/2005/07/punish_the_caft.html (15219 words)

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		Empirical Reality: About 65 percent of all nation-states are under authoritarian regimes and most of these are found in developing nations.
		- The state [=political system] is dominated by the revolutionary party which in turn dominates all aspects of society and individual life, including the economy, personal and family life, and all intellectual and religious activities.
		A few developing nations have fallen under the control of ambitious charismatic leaders or totalitarian political parties which have sought to enforce total control over their peoples.
	www.isu.edu /~andesean/authoritat.txt (546 words)

	Sept. 11 Lawsuits Against Saudi Royals Dismissed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Robertson refused to accept the claims against the two princes submitted by the lawyers of the Sept. 11 victims saying it was mere accusations and could not be considered judicial evidence.
		In the lawsuit filed by the Sept. 11 victims and their relatives, Prince Turki was accused of having an “ongoing relationship” with Osama Bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the attacks in the United States.
		During the last court session, Robertson also said that most Saudis and Arabs named in the lawsuit would be cleared through judicial procedures as he considered the accusations against them beyond United States jurisdiction.
	www.arabnews.com /?page=4§ion=0&article=35171&d=16&m=11&y=2003 (632 words)

	DAWN - Features; August 12, 2006
		Supervisors, who should not only be mobile but also have wireless communication facility, should be assigned specific areas of responsibility and they should not sit at emergency centres but keep moving.
		There should be monitoring staff at the union council and town levels under supervision of city government’s senior officials.
		These officials, along with Town and UC nazims, should hold meetings with councillors, monitoring staff and supervisors at designated places daily to review the progress, resolve the issues and ensue that there is no shortage of PoL, spare parts and other material at a place of emergency.
	www.dawn.com /cgi-bin/today.cgi?file=fea.htm (748 words)

	MEMRI: Saudi Arabia
		Saudi Cleric Nasser bin Suleiman Al-'Omar: ‘America is Now Disappearing From the Hearts Within America Itself...
		Saudi Columnist: ’We Must Admit that Our Relations with America Were the Cornerstone for Our Development and Progress.
		Saudi Government Official on Bin Laden as a Hero: He Did Not Present a Distorted Picture of Islam to the West' American Jews are 'Brothers of Apes and Pigs'
	www.memri.org /saudiarabia.html (3865 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI Online - Who'll Rule the World? - Wednesday May 22, 2002 01:41 PM
		CNNSI.com - SI Online - Who'll Rule the World?
		Photograph by AP Issue date: May 27, 2002
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	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /si_online/news/2002/05/21/rule_the_world (121 words)

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