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No, CNN, Saudi Arabia and Iran Have Not Been Fighting For “1,000 Years”

By Haroon Moghul

…but to the Iranian Islamic Revolution, which (1) overthrew a monarchy (and Saudi Arabia is a monarchy); (2) aimed to export Islamic Revolution, which Saudi Arabia interpreted as a direct threat; and (3) attempted to claim the mantle of political Islam, which Saudi Arabia sees itself as the principal representative of in the world. From 1980-1988, Iran fought a war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, which was backed by the Gulf Arab monarchies, especia…

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…he juvenile spat between a violent, authoritarian Islamist monarchy, i.e., Saudi Arabia, and a violent, authoritarian Islamist republic, Iran; if only, I often wish, there was some global agency with the moral clout to call for a time-out, and to see it through. To insulate the Muslim world from both these regimes. Their rhetoric infects the wider region; the cover of the New York Times suggests as much: now, whether they like it or not, all Sunni…

Saudi Activist Manal Al-Sharif Freed from Prison

By Joanna Brooks

…support of Saudi women’s rights, was released on Monday after ten days in Saudi Arabia’s Damman prison. Al-Sharif is a single mother with a five-year-old son, who was hospitalized during her imprisonment. According to some reports, Saudi authorities had threatened to remove custody of her son. Al-Sharif issued a brief statement thanking Saudi officials for her release and rebuffing attacks on her character and her devotion to Islam: “At the end o…

Women2Drive in Saudi Arabia

By Joanna Brooks

June 17 dawned many hours ago in Saudi Arabia, and early reports suggest that the day declared “Women 2 Drive” by Saudi women’s rights activists has been a success. Reports are coming in from Saudi journalists and Twitterists: about 20 women have been seen driving in Riyadh. Five or six drove past the capital. Women have also been reported driving in Jeddah. And there have been no arrests. An early morning YouTube video depicted one woman driving…

Saudi Women Take to the Twittersphere to Protest Driving Ban

By Joanna Brooks

…group Women2Drive, the status of the June 17 event is uncertain, but other Saudi women activists report that the movement is gaining traction. The prohibition on women’s driving is not Saudi law but a fatwa from the country’s conservative religious leaders. Even so, say many moderate and progressive Muslims, the ban is a strong misreading of Islamic tradition, pointing to scriptural examples of women riding on donkey and horseback and comparing th…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…d. The federal and state authorities in Malaysia should follow their lead. Saudi Arabia: Cleric ignites backlash with call to stop punishing homosexuality Salman al-Ouda, a Saudi cleric, reportedly called for the end to the persecution of gay people in the name of Islam. The Jerusalem Post’s report was based on the Saudi daily Eilpah, which cited an interview in a Swedish newspaper. In the interview, Salman Odah stated that “even though homosexual…

Turkey and Egypt: Islam’s Future?

By Haroon Moghul

…ims to more ‘authentic’ expressions of their faith. Often this meant Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan pushing their religious agendas alongside their foreign policy objectives. It made for messy, even ugly, politics, with ideological wars complementing actual wars—and Islamic thought another victim. Saudi Arabia funded madrasas in Pakistan, leading to Iran and Iraq funding madrasas in Pakistan; in generally more benign instances, Egypt dispatched…

Big Love, Saudi-Style

By Haroon Moghul

…s simultaneously marrying two of her friends. Because polygamy is legal in Saudi Arabia, this isn’t surprising; what’s more surprising is that the wife-to-be proposed that the husband-to-be take a second and third wife, and then stipulated who those wives would be. Know your co-wives, I guess. (It’s a Big Love episode in Arabic.) At first the man resisted. Maybe he didn’t like her friends? We don’t know. Maybe he didn’t want to pay for three house…

Saudi Hypocrisy in Wahhabi “Disneyland”

By Reuven Firestone

…oted sheikh, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, in Dir`iyyah, near the capital of Saudi Arabia. Dir`iyyah, which is essentially a suburb of Riadh, was ruled in the middle of the 18th century by a tribal sheikh named Muhammad ibn Saud. It was also the home base of the founder of Wahhabi Islam. As the Times notes, the two Muhammads made a deal that would eventually take over most of the Arabian Peninsula. Muhammad ibn Saud would supply the warriors and Muh…

Maureen Dowd’s Reductio Ad Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…uck by her husband for the very same reason, because she too was raised in Saudi Arabia. Don’t you know Muslim women are invariably oppressed? Don’t you know Hillary Clinton’s not a Muslim, except she should be, for Dowd’s column to deserve the space it received? (All this time we were worried about Obama.) Perhaps aware of the thinness of her causation, Dowd offers other specious possibilities. Like, Clinton’s apology was more sincere. Or, his c…