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Raving in Riyadh – The New Saudi Arabia with Sami Hamdi

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The Terrifying Thing About Islam for Mohammed Bin Salman

Islam evokes such resonance amongst the population that all it takes is for a random individual to say, it's a tak'ilah. That's what's terrifying about Islam for Mohammed bin Salman or for the authoritarianism. In the Arab Spring, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, anybody who raised a flag and said, I am going to implement la'el Allah, Muhammad al-Rosul-Ula. The idea being that affinity, and that's why the liberals in the region supported the coups because they couldn't win elections. What Muhammad bin Salman wants to do, and it's clear in the way he implements his reforms, is to silence Quran inside

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