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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (169354)8/19/2005 7:59:55 AM
From: Keith Feral  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Great article. The article confirms a suspicion of mine about fundamentalism in Islam, namely, that people will return to the earliest tradition of Islam to escape the current intolerance of the Wahhab regime.

<Since liberal arguments have failed to move the clerical establishment, a new wave of Saudi women have turned to Islam, and Muhammad's earliest teachings, to develop legal ideas that are, so to speak, more fundamental than Wahabbi fundamentalism.>

For example, I think the devout fundamentalism that has swept across Iran is a protective defense against the Sunni Salafi movement in Afghanistan and Pakistan. By making themselves fiercely fundamental, they can reject the intolerance of the Salafis through their home grown intolerance.

I was very surprised about the openness of gay couples in Saudi Arabia. I guess it must be like walking around in an open air jail, where the men have no access to women. I guess all the pent up repression has to go somewhere.<g>
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